Tilman Kuhn

Tilman’s experience includes representing:

Antitrust Investigations and Litigation

• A leading energy company in achieving the first-ever annulment of a court-issued FCO search warrant (for lack of probable cause), leading to a multi-year cartel investigation into the cable sector*
• Symrise in a global cartel investigation in the fragrance sector, including challenging the legality of EC dawn raids before the General Court*
• Autoliv against civil damages claims in connection with cartel investigations by the EC and other authorities into automotive components, including: 
  • Full dismissal of a landmark €770 million claim by Stellantis*
  • A c. €95 million claim by BMW before the Regional Court of Munich*
• A leading manufacturer of plastic packaging in follow-on damage claims in relation to an EC cartel investigation in the retail food packaging sector*
• An electronics retailer in:
  • An investigation by the FCO into alleged resale price maintenance practices, resulting in the closing of the investigation without imposition of a fine*
  • The EC’s online and resale price maintenance investigations*
• Lundbeck before the EC, the General Court, and the Court of Justice of the EU in its appeal against the EC’s fining decision regarding reverse payment settlement agreements*

Regulatory Deal Clearance

• Autotalks in its contemplated takeover by Qualcomm (Article 22 EUMR referral case without national filing requirements and related CMA proceedings)*
• The Dow Chemical Company in various matters, including its US$130 billion merger of equals with DuPont*
• Air France-KLM in merger control aspects of its acquisition of a minority stake and commercial cooperation with SAS*
• Airbus (formerly EADS) in merger control and FDI aspects of its joint acquisition with Thyssenkrupp of Atlas Elektronik*
• Airbus in its acquisition of a majority stake in Bombardiers C-series program*
• Abbott in its acquisition of Solvay’s pharmaceutical and diagnostic business*
• Synthos in the US$449 million acquisition of Trinseo’s synthetic rubber business*
• About You in its planned public takeover by Zalando*
• GlobalWafers in antitrust/merger control and FDI aspects of its attempted public takeover of Siltronic*
• Henkel in the acquisition of ICI’s adhesives and electronics business (National Starch)*
• Jenoptik AG in merger control and FDI aspects of the sale of its defense/mechatronics business Vincorion*
• Georg Fischer AG in its public takeover of Uponor*
• Metso Corporation in the combination of Metso Minerals and Outotec Oyj under the name Metso Outotec*
• Prax Group in its acquisition of OIL! Tankstellen GmbH*
• Axel Springer before the Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf and Federal Court of Justice in challenging the FCO’s merger prohibition in Axel Springer/Pro7Sat1*
• Chinese state-owned enterprises on global FDI reviews*
• A US company in in-depth FDI proceedings, resolved with a toughly negotiated mitigation agreement, in the area of lawful telecommunications interception for law enforcement agencies*

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham