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Dr. Alex Petrasincu

  • Partner / Head of Competition & Litigation
  • Düsseldorf, Berlin
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OVERVIEW

Dr. Alex Petrasincu is a partner and serves as Head of Competition and Litigation at Hausfeld in Germany. Until the end of 2024, he was also Managing Partner of Hausfeld in Germany.

He advises on all aspects of European and German antitrust law, with a particular focus on antitrust litigation and data protection law.

Alex Petrasincu has represented numerous companies in antitrust and data protection damages proceedings, as well as in interim relief proceedings to enforce injunctive relief against antitrust violations.  He has represented and advised parties before numerous German regional courts, Courts of Appeal, the Federal Administrative Court, the Federal Constitutional Court, and the European Court of Justice. He has also represented companies in antitrust investigations by the European Commission, the German Federal Cartel Office, and other European antitrust authorities.

Selected matters include:

  • Assertion of antitrust damages claims of more than EUR 1 billion for transport companies affected by the truck cartel;
  • Representing large retail companies in asserting antitrust damages claims against German banking associations for merchant fees for the electronic cash system, as well as against Mastercard for excessive interchange fees;
  • Representing an automobile manufacturer in asserting antitrust damages claims against suppliers;
  • Assertion of antitrust damages claims on behalf of a major international energy producer against members of the so-called “power cables cartel”;
  • Representation of a leading German company in defending against antitrust damages claims;
  • Representation of a tech company in defending against antitrust investigation proceedings by a European antitrust authority;
  • Representation of Immowelt in preliminary injunction proceedings against ImmoScout due to the risk of so-called “market tipping” as a result of discounts violating antitrust law;
  • Assertion of damages claims for against Google for collecting personal data via Android mobile phones in violation of data protection law.

Juve, Legal 500, Chambers, and Who's Who Legal have listed Mr. Petrasincu as one of Germany's leading antitrust lawyers and litigators for many years. In 2024, he was also named “Competition Plaintiff Lawyer of the Year” worldwide at the Lexology Index Awards.

Alex Petrasincu studied and obtained his doctorate in Düsseldorf, Paris X-Nanterre, and Münster. As part of his doctoral thesis on merger control law, he was a visiting researcher at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. After completing his legal clerkship, he also obtained an LL.M. from Columbia Law School in New York. He regularly lectures and publishes articles on German and European antitrust law.
He is admitted to practice law in Germany and New York.

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