Sarah Milde represents companies in all sorts of antitrust matters.

She advises a broad range of clients from international corporations, global investors, large industrial companies to family-owned businesses.

Her practice focuses on antitrust litigation, in particular proceedings in the area of digital antitrust law, antitrust investigations, and antitrust damages litigation. With her many years of experience in advising on economic issues in antitrust damages litigation, she has a strong focus on the decisive economic parameters of a case.

Sarah Milde has represented Alphabet/Google before the German Federal Cartel Office and the Federal Court of Justice in proceedings concerning the regulation of large digital companies under Section 19a of the German Act against Restraints of Competition (GWB), represented FIFA before German courts and the European Court of Justice in connection with regulations on player transfers, and defended MAN throughout Europe in the so-called truck cartel case. In addition, Sarah Milde has advised on antitrust fine proceedings in cases involving ophthalmic lenses, trucks, wallpapers, and sausages, among others.

In merger control, she represents companies before the German Federal Cartel Office and the European Commission. Merger control proceedings in which Sarah Milde has been involved include: Acquisition of Viridium, a leading European life insurance portfolio specialist, by a consortium of reputable insurers and asset managers; sale of Apleona by PAI Partners; advising EQT on a long-term strategic partnership with WTS.

Career

  • Admitted to bar 2014
  • University of Bielefeld (Dr. iur)

Publications

  • Auskunftsbeschluss der EU-Kommission im Kartellverfahren mangels Begründung nichtig (Kommentierung der Urteile in den Rs. C-247/14 P (HeidelbergCement); C-248/14 P; C-267/14 P; C-268/14 P), together with Dr. Thorsten Mäger, Der Betrieb 2016, 760-761
  • Chapter 13: Germany (S. 185-195), together with Dr. Thorsten Mäger, Dr. Daniel J. Zimmer in: Ilene Knable Gotts, The Private Competition Enforcement Review, 8th ed. 2015
  • Access to Leniency Documents - Another Piece in the Puzzle Regarding Public and Private Antitrust Enforcement? together with Dr. Thorsten Mäger und Dr. Daniel J. Zimmer, Journal of European Competition Law & Practice (2013) 4 (2), 182-184
  • Schutz des Kronzeugen im Spannungsfeld von behördlicher Kartellrechtsdurchsetzung und privaten Schadensersatzklagen - Eine Untersuchung unter besonderer Berücksichtigung vorprozessualer Dokumentenzugangs- und Akteneinsichtsrechte Dritter auf europäischer und deutscher Ebene, Baden-Baden 2013, zugl.: Bielefeld, Univ., Diss., 2012
  • "Entdemokratisierug als Massenphänomen?" Teil 1: Der Euro, Fiskalunion und Vereintes Europa, trendInfo Stadt Duisburg 08/2012, Seite A1 ff, abrufbar unter www.duisburg.de/vv/I-03/medien/TI_0812-text.pdf
  • Chance vertan? - Zur Akteneinsicht in Kartellakten nach dem Pfleiderer-Urteil des EuGH, together with Dr. Thorsten Mäger and Dr. Daniel J. Zimmer, WuW 10/2011, 935-943
  • Blick ins Kartellrecht, together with Dr. Alf-Henrik Bischke, NZG 2011, 42
  • Konflikt zwischen öffentlicher und privater Kartellrechtsdurchsetzung, together with Dr. Thorsten Mäger and Dr. Daniel J. Zimmer, WuW 09/2009, 885-899