Prof. Dr. Michael Saller Email and Phone Number

• Serve as an expert in economic law, with a special focus on teaching competition law, antitrust, and intellectual property.• Teach ~7 courses each semester on a range of economic law topics, including private law, trade law, and labour law.• Write and publish original analysis and insight about negotiation methods and interviewing/interrogation techniques.

• Empower clients to make informed economic and legal decisions by advising on all questions of competition law, including merger control, cartel proceedings, litigation, compliance, and impact assessment. • Provide specialized expertise in the energy, consumer goods, construction, pharma, finance, and logistics industries.• Serve as the part of the team representing the firm in a high-profile lawsuit before the German Federal Supreme Court and an action for annulment pending before the European General Court.

Instruct master students on subjects of innovation management, European and international business law and intellectual property law

• Teach competition law and antitrust as part of a 4-semester LLM programme in mergers and acquisitions.

• Provide training for Schranner’s Qualified Negotiator program, which trains managers to develop the capabilities needed to confidently master difficult negotiations at the front line.• Leverage prior experience in interviewing and negotiation to teach courses.

• Directed project teams of up to 50 members to draft reports for national governments with recommendations for legislative reform. Cultivated working relationships across OECD departments to coordinate on institutional reforms.• Spearheaded launch of the final report for one of the Competition Division’s largest projects, operating with a budget of ~€1.5M. Comprehensively analyzed 895 Romanian laws and prepared a report with recommendations for reform to generate potential annual savings of €434M.• Wrote and successfully completed a competition assessment of Mexican legislation in the pharma and meat sectors and another one in the gas sector. Navigated changes in staffing and the Mexican administration to meet all project deadlines. Overcame initial criticism to secure support from the Comisión Federal para la Protección contra Riesgos Sanitarios and the Comisión Reguladora de Energía. Drafted 107 recommendations to save consumers up to 44B Mexican pesos in the first project and 72 recommendations in the second one. Formally presented the project’s results at a launch event with 500+ international attendees, including the OECD Secretary General and Mexican ministers, receiving broad acclaim.• Led assessment projects for the logistics sector for all ASEAN countries, resulting in publication of final reports for Thailand, the Philippines, and Brunei.

• Instruct adult students on subjects of competition law, intellectual property, trade law, and white-collar crime.

.• Contributed to introduction of the first whistleblower system, which allowed informants to contact FCO anonymously.• Organized and held internal and external seminars on negotiation and interrogation techniques.• Represented FCO before the Regional Court in Bonn in several cases and at major international organizations, such as the European Commission and the International Competition Network (ICN). • • Organized hearings and negotiated settlements in numerous cases.• Combated corruption by steering investigations in cartel, bid rigging, and corruption cases. • Prepared cases and made official decisions on whether to approve or prohibit mergers in several merger control cases. • Drafted a decision resulting in cartel fines that was upheld by the Higher Regional Court.• Contributed to legal scholarship by publishing articles in national and international law publications.• Built capacity for competition authorities in Ukraine, Cyprus, and Serbia by organizing and lecturing at workshops as a senior expert.

• Negotiated contracts and secured clearance for mergers from relevant German or European authorities for major private equity investors (e.g., One Equity Partner, Carlyle Group) and industry companies (e.g., Oracle, Varian).• Successfully defended a leading pharma company in a sector inquiry by the European Commission.• Collaborated with the Litigation Practice Group on cases involving competition law, international trade law, intellectual property, and compliance. Assessed legal risks by performing careful due diligence and research.

• Provided expert legal advice to companies on a broad spectrum of economic and trade law topics, including competition law, merger control, cartel proceedings, intellectual property, international trade law, regulations, and legal compliance. • Actively participated in 10+ merger cases, including the first hostile takeover of a German company in the United States.• Successfully represented a large automotive company against hostile takeover by forcing the acquirer to offer a higher price and better purchase conditions.• Achieved a satisfactory outcome including a reduction in fines while defending an airline before the European Commission in a large cartel case premised on alleged abuse of dominance.• Facilitated a compliance investigation of a German company for bribery, fraud. and black accounts, leading to fines of more than $1B USD.

• Advised on management strategy with a focus on financial services, utilities, and telecommunications providers.• Sharpened and applied skills in project management and strategy consulting.