Andreas is managing partner of Morrison Foerster’s Berlin office in Germany and a member of the firm’s worldwide board of directors. He heads the German Antitrust and Regulatory practice from the firm’s Berlin and Brussels offices.

As a seasoned German and EU antitrust lawyer, Andreas represents his clients in merger control proceedings, provides advice with regard to allegations of market power abuse, and counsels on all antitrust aspects of businesses’ day-to-day operations, e.g., on matters such as information exchanges, vertical restraints, or antitrust compliance. Andreas also provides antitrust counsel in the digital economy, including on novel laws like the German UPSCAM law (Sec. 19a ARC) and the EU Digital Markets Act.

Andreas’ regulatory practice focuses on the technology, media, and telecommunications (TMT) sector. He advises on media regulation (e.g., advertising rules, youth protection, platform and intermediary regulation, media ownership control) and on telecoms laws. In addition, Andreas’ practice covers issues like content moderation (e.g., the Digital Services Act, Terrorist Content Online Regulation, and CSAM Regulation) and other technology topics (e.g., the EU Geo-Blocking Regulation and Data Act). He also supports his clients’ public policy initiatives, both around competition and other regulatory issues, by monitoring ongoing legislative developments and providing early-stage impact assessments and implementation counseling.

Andreas studied law in Würzburg and Münster (Dr. iur.). He was a research fellow with Professor Dr. Bernd Holznagel at the Institute for Information, Telecommunications and Media Law (ITM) in Münster, a visiting scholar at the Communications Media Center of New York Law School (1998), and an international fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School (1999).

Since 2005, Andreas has been teaching media and competition law at the University of Münster, where he was named an Honorary Professor in 2021.

Representative Experience

Antitrust

• Legal policy counsel to leading global technology companies on novel laws like the German UPSCAM law (Sec. 19a ARC), the 11th ARC amendment, and the EU Digital Markets Act
• Merger control proceedings before the German Federal Cartel Office and the EU European Commission as well as coordination of global merger filings across a wide range of industries, including media, IT, semiconductors, automotive, pharma, professional services, and manufacturing, including “phase 2” cases like KDG/TeleColumbus, Liberty/KabelBW, KDG/Orion, and ish/iesy
• Counsel in abuse of dominance cases, e.g., counsel to Sky Deutschland before the German Federal Cartel Office in the successful defense against abuse of dominance allegations in the German pay TV market
• Antitrust counsel to technology and media companies on a wide range of operational issues

Regulatory

• Counsel to international tech and media companies regarding compliance with the EU Digital Services Act and other tech-related EU and German regulations
• Counsel to a leading worldwide provider of live-streaming services on a broad range of regulatory matters, e.g., content moderation, youth protection, and advertising regulations
• Counsel to providers of cloud-based (OTT) communications solutions on compliance with telecommunications laws
• Counsel to private pay and free TV providers on a wide range of media and competition issues
• Counsel to ProSiebenSat.1 (P7S1) in the proceedings before the German Federal Administrative Court to successfully challenge the decision by the German media ownership commission (KEK) to block P7S1’s acquisition by Axel Springer