Dr. Bastian Müller

Rechtsanwalt | Senior Associate @ NOERR

Brussels, Brussels Region, Belgium

About

As an Antitrust & Competition lawyer, I advise on all aspects of European and German competition law as well as FDI. I support clients in complex antitrust investigations and administrative fine proceedings, and I handle merger control in M&A transactions before both the European Commission and the German Federal Cartel Office. I also focus on distribution antitrust law, with a particular emphasis on the automotive sector. I use my industry knowledge to address legal complexities, including the assessment and design of distribution structures and cooperations in line with competition rules. My practice further covers abuse of dominance cases and advice on the Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR).

Experience

  • Noerr (Brussels, Brussels Region, Belgium)
    • Senior Associate | Rechtsanwalt
      Sep 2025 - Present · 10 mos

      Antitrust & Competition

    • Associate | Rechtsanwalt
      Oct 2023 - Sep 2025 · 2 yrs

      Antitrust & Competition

  • Hanseatisches Oberlandesgericht (2 yrs 2 mos)
    • Rechtsreferendar | Trainee Lawyer
      Apr 2021 - May 2023 · 2 yrs 2 mos

      For the different stages see below

    • Siemens AG
      Jan 2023 - Apr 2023 · 4 mos

      👉 Antitrust and Competition Law The Competition Law Department advises Siemens worldwide on all aspects of competition law. I support the team in various topics, such as - domestic, cross-border and multi-jurisdictional merger control cases - implementation of market places, collaborations and digital business models in an antitrust compliant way - prevention of cartels, price fixing, allocation of markets or customers, bid rigging etc. - prevention of potentially anti-competitive practices in cooperations, distribution agreements or activities in trade associations

    • European Commission - Directorate-General Competition - Cartel Unit
      Jan 2022 - Mar 2022 · 3 mos

      👉 Antitrust and Competition Law I worked in a Cartel Unit of DG Comp on various cartel cases. My tasks included drafting Statements of Objections, assessing evidence and rebutting claims of parties. Additionally I have been allocated to an horizontal working group dealing with policy issues, especially related to the ECN.

  • Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter | Research Assistant at Noerr
    Aug 2019 - Sep 2021 · 2 yrs 2 mos

    👉 Antitrust and Competition Law During my time at Noerr I worked on various topics and tasks in the area of Antitrust and Competition Law, for example - several National and EU Merger Filings to the German FCO (Bundeskartellamt) and the European Commission - cases in the area of abuse of a dominant market position - review and design of competition law compliant distribution agreements and franchise agreements - several other questions in horizontal and vertical contexts

  • Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter | Research Assistant at Hengeler Mueller
    Mar 2019 - Jul 2019 · 5 mos

    👉 Compliance | Internal Investigations | Management of Crisis

  • Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter | Research Assistant at Esche Schümann Commichau
    Oct 2015 - Mar 2019 · 3 yrs 6 mos

    👉 Antitrust and Competition | Distribution Law | Internal Investigations | Compliance