21 Apr 2026
Weil, Gotshal & Manges Expands German Antitrust Team with Partners Ingo Brinker and Niklas Brueggemann
"Weil, Gotshal & Manges hires antitrust partners Ingo Brinker and Niklas Brueggemann in Germany to strengthen its EU and German competition practice, focusing on merger control, litigation, tech-related antitrust and regulatory matters."
Ingo Brinker is described as one of antitrust’s most influential lawyers and a Tier 1 practitioner for over 20 years. He advises on German and European antitrust law, with a particular focus on merger control proceedings, cartel and criminal investigations, follow-on damages actions and litigation, and dominance and unilateral conduct matters. He has led significant cases before the German Federal Cartel Office, the European Commission and other international competition authorities, and has represented clients before the European General Court, the Court of Justice of the European Union and the German antitrust courts. He will join Weil from White & Case.
Niklas Brueggemann is a rising star advising across the full spectrum of competition law, with a particular focus on matters at the intersection of technology and antitrust. Drawing on experience at EU and national levels in private practice and as a public official, he counsels clients on EU and German antitrust law and tech regulation, merger control, foreign direct investment screening and civil antitrust litigation. His practice centers on transactional and multi-stakeholder aspects of competition enforcement. He has worked on policy and enforcement matters at the European Commission and the German Federal Government and has represented clients before national and EU competition authorities, sectoral regulators and courts. He will join Weil from Latham.