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Viola Pless

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viola.pless@hengeler.com

Viola advises clients on antitrust and merger control cases. Her focus is on abuse of dominance and cartel investigations, compliance trainings/audits, follow-on damage claims litigation.

She represents clients before the European Commission, the German Federal Cartel Office as well as before the European and German courts.

Career

  • Admitted to bar 2025
  • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich

Recent Work

Hengeler Mueller advises Banijay Group on acquisition of a majority stake in Tipico Group

Hengeler Mueller advises freenet on the acquisition of mobilezone Germany

Hengeler Mueller advises KLAR Partners on acquisition of KONZMANN Group

Practice Areas

Publications

  • Chapter 4 - The European Union in Injunctions, in: Contreras/Husovec (Hrsg.), Injunctions in Patent Law: Trans-Atlantic Dialogue on Flexibility and Tailoring, Cambridge University Press, 2022 (mit Matthias Leistner)
  • Carve-out- und Mix-und-Match-Zusagen in der Fallpraxis der EU-Fusionskontrolle – eine Analyse der jüngeren Kommissionsentscheidungen in NZKart 2020, 582-588 (mit Susanna Brintrup)
  • Anmerkung zu LG München I vom 29.04.2019 – 4 HKO 14312/18, GRUR-RR 2019, 332-336 (mit Patrick Zurth)
  • #transparenz: Die Kennzeichnung nutzergenerierter Werbung in sozialen Netzwerken unter der neuen AVMD-Richtlinie in ZUM 2019, 414-424 (Teil 1) und ZUM 2019, 457-466 (Teil 2) (mit Patrick Zurth)