AUSTRIA Law and Practice Contributed by: Astrid Ablasser-Neuhuber and Sebastian Reiter, bpv Huegel
bpv Huegel has one of the premier competition law practice groups in Austria, with an experi - enced team of specialists representing blue- chip clients from around the world in headline competition matters. With offices in Vienna and Brussels, bpv Huegel offers expertise in both Austrian and European practice. Its affiliation with bpv LEGAL offices in the Czech Repub -
lic, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania provides clients with a seamless cross-border service in CEE. The firm advises companies on the full spectrum of competition matters, including car - tels, merger control, abuse of dominance, joint ventures, cross-border transactions, private damages claims, state aid and compliance.
Authors
Astrid Ablasser-Neuhuber is head of the competition/antitrust practice at bpv Huegel and has been involved in almost all the important competition and antitrust cases in Austria in
Sebastian Reiter is an attorney in bpv Huegel’s competition and antitrust practice and has been with the firm since 2021. He previously worked at a major US law firm’s Frankfurt office, linking
recent years. Astrid has practised EC competition law in Vienna/Brussels for over three decades. She specialises in national and European antitrust and merger control law, representing national and international clients in antitrust and merger cases before the Austrian and European competition authorities as well as in proceedings before the European courts. She has worked with several antitrust authorities, including the EC/Merger Task Force in Brussels. Astrid is on the board of the Austrian Federation for the Protection of Intellectual Property.
Austrian antitrust law with the global practice hubs in Brussels, London, Washington, DC, and Germany. Sebastian trained in competition policy and economics as a Fulbright student at the Yale Law School. He holds a PhD in energy law from the University of Vienna. Sebastian has significant experience in all areas of competition law, including dispute resolution and cartel-related internal investigations. He also advises on FDI control and the intersection of competition law and regulated industries.
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