Dr. Andreas Groehn’s practice focuses on antitrust and intellectual property, as well as strategy issues in network industries.
He advises clients in merger, abuse of dominance, state aid, and cartel cases before the Federal Trade Commission, Department of Justice, European Commission, and other national antitrust authorities, as well as in private litigation. Dr. Groehn has monitored compliance with structural and behavioral commitments in the chemical, medical devices, and consumer retail industries as trustee on behalf of the EC and FTC, and he has published on a variety of antitrust and intangible property issues.
Dr. Groehn’s academic research focuses on network industries and the economic rationale for bundling, foreclosure, and predation. He has advised clients across Europe and in the United States out of Brussels, Frankfurt, London, and Washington, DC. He currently shares his time between Europe and the United States and teaches microeconomics at Zeppelin University in Germany.
Areas of Expertise
Industries
Education
Christian Albrecht University, Kiel, Germany
PhD, Economics, 1998 (summa cum laude)
Saar University, Saarbruecken, Germany
Masters, Economics, 1993
Recognition
Award of Wissenschaftsgemeinschaft Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (WGL) for an outstanding Ph.D. thesis (1999). The WGL is the umbrella organization for eighty German research institutes comprising 12,500 scientists in various disciplines.