Dr. Michael Engel Email & Phone Number

Michael is a partner at White & Case in London who represents clients before the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the European Commission and the German Federal Cartel Office. Michael advises on the full spectrum of competition law, in particular UK, EU, German and multi-jurisdictional merger control, cartels, State aid and compliance as well as foreign direct investment matters. Michael has extensive experience in advising on complex multi-jurisdictional merger reviews. His contentious experience includes advising clients in the context of cartel and state aid investigations, as well as follow-on damages actions before the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal and national EU Member State courts and appeals of European Commission decisions to the Court of Justice of the European Union.Michael is a non-governmental advisor to the CMA in the International Competition Network and co-chair of the London chapter of the German Competition Lawyers Association (Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht).He has advised clients in a number of sectors, including, energy, commodities, financial services, private equity, IT and technology, automotive, aviation, healthcare/pharmaceuticals, utilities, food and retail.Michael is routinely recognised as a leading antitrust practitioner, including by Chambers and Partners, Global Competition Review, Who's Who Legal and The Legal 500.Chambers and Partners have ranked Michael "Up and Coming" (UK 2022, 2023, 2024 and Europe 2022, 2023, 2024).Global Competition Review 100 has recognised Michael as "recommended" in the UK (2024).Additionally, Who's Who legal has identified Michael as one of the UK's leading competition law practitioners and recognised him as "Global Leader" in Competition and "Future leader" (2018, 2019 and 2020) where he was described as "clearly a standout: a sharp-minded competition lawyer who consistently demonstrates excellent thinking" and as a "great pleasure to work with".The Legal 500 UK guide (2024) has recognised Michael as as “Next Generation Partner” and key lawyer who is "highly committed and very collaborative".Michael was further recognised by Lexology who named him as the winner of the 2021 Client Choice Award for the category Competition & Antitrust in the UK.