Dr Tatjana Mühlbach is a partner in the law firm BUNTSCHECK Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH.
Tatjana is specialised in all aspects of German and European competition law. Tatjana has many years of experience acting for plaintiffs and defendants in damages claims under competition law, both in court and out of court. She defends clients in cartel investigations of the German Federal Cartel Office and the European Commission and represents her clients before the courts. Tatjana also regularly advises clients in German and multinational merger control cases. Furthermore, she advises clients with respect to supply and distribution systems, joint ventures, commercial cooperation agreements, and all other aspects of compliance.
Her clients include leading industrial firms, private equity firms, numerous small and medium-sized enterprises as well as professional associations. Firms from the pharmaceuticals and health sectors, in particular, benefit from Tatjana’s advice in healthcare competition law.
Tatjana is a member of the German Competition Law Association (Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht e.V.), the Competition Law Forum Munich (Kartellrechtsforum München e.V.) and the German Women Lawyers’ Association (Deutsche Juristinnenbund e.V.).
She has professional proficiency in the languages of German and English.
Tatjana Mühlbach studied Law at the University of Hamburg. She worked in academic research at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg; the University of Oldenburg, Lower Saxony; and the University of Bordeaux, France, as well as at the College of Europe in Hamburg. She was awarded Doctor of Laws in 2006. Between 2007 and 2011, Tatjana worked at the EU and competition law practice of SJ Berwin LLP (Munich). From 2011 to 2016, she was part of the team founding the Antitrust & Competition practice of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP (Munich). Since 2016, she has been a partner at BUNTSCHECK.
Publications:
Schadensersatz wegen Kartell¬rechtsverstößen – Ein Überblick aus der Praxis. (Damages arising from competition law violations – An overview from practice.) In: Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsstrafrecht und Haftung im Unternehmen 2016, 145-155 (together with Andreas Boos)
Germany: Private Antitrust Ligitation. In: The European Antitrust Review 2009, 110–114 (together with Alexander Rinne)
Tarifverträge in der europäischen Kartellkontrolle. (Collective agreements in the European cartel control.) Nomos-Verlag, Baden-Baden, Reihe Wirtschaftsrecht und Wirtschaftspolitik, 2007
Le dialoge social en Allemagne: l’ equlibrage du systéme dual de relations industrielles.
(The social dialogue in Germany: Balancing the dual system of industrial relations.) In: Martin, P. (ed.), Le dialoge social, modèles et modalités de la regulation juridique en Europe, Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, 2007
Tariftreue und europäisches Vergaberecht (Collective agreement compliance and European procurement law.) In: Recht der Arbeit 2003, 339–346
BUNTSCHECK is an independent German law firm specialising in German and European competition law and related issues. It offers a unique combination of the personalised service one expects from a highly specialised partnership, together with a breadth of experience otherwise available only from large, international law firms.
Founded in 2008 in Munich, BUNTSCHECK has grown to become one of Germany’s leading competition-law firms. The firm’s lawyers boast years of experience in leading international commercial law firms, and its lean and efficient structure delivers cost-effective results for its clients. Tatjana and her colleagues pride themselves on giving their clients advice and support of outstanding quality, helping BUNTSCHECK to build a reputation for responsiveness, diligence and commitment.
