Jörn Christian Kramer

Dr. Jörn Kramer is an associate in the Düsseldorf office of Latham & Watkins and a member of the firm’s Global Antitrust & Competition Practice. He focuses on EU and German competition law.

Jörn represents international companies before the European Commission and the German Federal Cartel Office in a wide range of competition law matters, in particular with regards to antitrust investigations, litigation, regulatory aspects, and State aid matters. He has advised clients in a number of complex and high-profile merger control proceedings and has experience across various different sectors, including digital markets, technology, manufacturing, and aviation.

Prior to joining Latham, Jörn worked at the Chair of Civil Law, German and International Corporate, Business and Competition Law at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf. In that capacity he specialized on research around the private enforcement of competition law and has contributed to numerous publications in that area. He also worked as a trainee and research associate in the antitrust practice groups of Latham’s Düsseldorf office and in several other international law firms in Düsseldorf. During his legal clerkship, Jörn also worked for the Litigation and Legal Division of the German Federal Cartel Office.

Jörn regularly publishes articles on antitrust issues, with a particular focus on cartel damage claims. His dissertation on the contractual lump sum consolidation of cartel damage claims and the joint and several liability for cartel damages was awarded with awards for “outstanding dissertations” and “particularly exceptional dissertations in the area of competition law” from the University of Düsseldorf and the Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Law.