Michael is a Senior Associate in RBB’s Düsseldorf office, where he has recently relocated to from Brussels.Michael has advised clients on many competition cases, both before the European Commission and before national competition authorities in Germany, Switzerland, the UK, Greece, the Netherlands, South Africa, Chile, Brazil and other countries outside of Europe. In the aviation sector, his main assignments also include advice to the parties of the Aegean/Olympic II, IAG/Aer Lingus, Etihad/Alitalia and IAG/bmi mergers as well as to American Airlines, British Airways and Iberia, and IAG and LATAM in their transatlantic joint business agreements. Michael also worked for the parties on several EC Phase II merger cases outside the aviation sector, including Dow/DuPont, Zimmer/Biomet, Friesland Foods/Campina, Johnson & Johnson/Guidant, Sony/BMG, GE/Instrumentarium and Carnival/P&O Princess Cruises, as well as on other notable merger cases, such as AB InBev/SABMiller, Andritz/Schuler, Sasol/Engen, Agfa/Lastra and VNU/Book Data. In addition to his merger work, Michael has advised on a number of other cases before the European Commission (including the investigation into Google search), the German Bundeskartellamt and the Austrian competition authority.Michael holds a Master’s degree in Economics from the London School of Economics. As a German national, he is fluent in German and English.