Teresa Gerhold-Kempf, LLM (King's College London)

Senior Associate Teresa Gerhold-Kempf provides comprehensive advice on all aspects of German and European antitrust and competition law. Her expertise encompasses complex cross-border merger control and foreign investment control proceedings, antitrust investigations before German and European authorities, as well as general compliance matters.

Teresa has a particular focus on ESG-related compliance, where she frequently assists clients in navigating the intersection of antitrust compliance and human rights risk management. This includes advising on ESG collaborations among competitors and helping clients establish robust risk management systems to ensure compliance with human rights regulations in their supply chains, such as the German Supply Chain Act and the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive. She acts for a wide range of multi-national clients from various sectors, including from the automotive and chemical industry.

Advised: 

• Aurubis in a complex phase 2 EU merger proceeding in relation to the acquisition of Metallo Group (at previous law firm)
• Jost Werke SE on the acquisition of Hyva Group, an automotive supplier operating in 25 countries on six continents.
• Mercedes-Benz on cross-border competition law projects and distribution law.
• Lange-HANSA-Holding and ULM Management in merger control proceedings on the sale of HANSA-HEEMANN to Refresco.
• Several clients on implementing a risk management system to comply with the German Supply Chain Act.
• Hydro in merger control proceedings in connection with the acquisition of Hueck group and its building systems and extrusions business.
• HOERBIGER in connection with the acquisition of JOHNSON MATTHEY Piezo Products GmbH.
• DBAG in connection with its acquisition of akquinet and two data processing centers.
  

• “Key Lawyer” for Antitrust – Legal500

• Second State Law Examination (bar exam), Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf
• Legal Clerkship (Referendariat), Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf
• King's College London, Mater of Laws (LLM)
• First State Law Examination, University of Heidelberg

• Düsseldorf, Germany

• English
• German

• German Association of Antitrust Lawyers (“Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht”)