Practice Areas
- Antitrust
- EU Competition Law
- International Antitrust
- Intellectual Property/Antitrust
- General Counseling & Distribution
- Mergers & Acquisitions/Premerger Notification
- Cartel Investigations & Litigation: Criminal & Civil
- Government & Private Antitrust Litigation & Investigations
- Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)
Bar Admissions
- Frankfurt, Germany
- New York
- Frankfurt
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Bockenheimer Landstr. 4
60306 Frankfurt am Main
Germany
Phone: +49 69 71 40 07 19
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Jürgen Beninca is a partner in Morgan Lewis's Antitrust Practice and has been resident in the Frankfurt office since 1998. His practice focuses on the representation of companies in European and German cartel and merger control proceedings. In this context, Dr. Beninca, in addition to counseling on compliance with antitrust regulations, represents the firm's clients before cartel authorities and courts. Dr. Beninca also represents clients before the German court in areas other than antitrust law.
Prior to joining Morgan Lewis in 1998, Dr. Beninca worked as an assistant with Professor Dr. Bernd Rüthers at his chair for labor and civil law at the University of Constance, Germany. In this position, he held multiple lectures on property law at the university and was author of numerous legal articles.
After completing an education in banking, Dr. Beninca studied law at the University of Constance. After the Second Legal State Exam in 1996, Dr. Beninca received his Ph.D. from the University of Constance in 1998 and his LL.M. from the University of Pennsylvania in the same year.
Dr. Beninca shares with Christian Zschocke the responsibility for the section on international developments in Germany's leading antitrust journal, Wirtschaft und Wettbewerb. He publishes regularly in the area of German and international antitrust and merger control law and worked for a period of nine months in the Antitrust Practice of the Washington, D.C. office.
Dr. Beninca, a German national, resides in Frankfurt, Germany, and is admitted to practice in Germany and New York. He is qualified to appear before the European Court of Justice.
Selected Representations
Dr. Beninca's recent major representations include:
- Representation of a leading Austrian bank in the European Commission's investigation of a cartel of Austrian banks (Case No. COMP/36.571 - "Austrian Banks") vis-à-vis the Commission and in front of the European Court of First Instance in the bank's litigation against the Commission's decision.
- Representation of a leading Austrian bank in front of the European Court of First Instance in this bank's litigation against a Commission decision violating the banks procedural rights.
- Representation of a leading German cement manufacturer in the German Federal Cartel Office's investigation of a cartel of German cement manufacturers.
- Representation of a German moving services company in a parallel cartel investigation of the U.S. Department of Justice and the German Federal Cartel Office.
- Representation of a leading manufacturer of brakes for rail and commercial vehicles in obtaining merger clearances from the European Commission, the German Federal Cartel Office and other jurisdictions around the world in a variety of transactions involving highly concentrated markets.
- Representation of a private equity fund's acquisitions of various businesses involving scaffolding and formwork, performance fibers, baby oil, and other products in obtaining merger clearance from the German Federal Cartel Office and in coordination the filings in other jurisdictions.
- Representation of a strategic investor bidding for HT Troplast AG's business unit Trosifol vis-á-vis the seller and the German Federal Cartel Office.
- Representation of the seller of a global provider of real time market data and related services to a strategic investor in the European Commission's merger review proceeding.
- Representation of a leading U.S. financial institution in a series of lawsuits filed by German investors alleging tort claims involving kickbacks and churning.
Education
- University of Konstanz, 1998, DR.JUR.
- University of Pennsylvania Law School, 1998, LL.M.
- Baden-Württemberg, Germany, 1996, Second State Examination
- University of Konstanz, 1994, First State Examination