Dr. Jens Peter Schmidt

German Federal Cartel Office Published New Merger Guidelines
Kiran S. Desai,Nathalie Jalabert Doury,Jens Peter Schmidt,Gillian Sproul, April 3, 2012
On 29 March 2012, the German Federal Cartel Office ("Cartel Office") adopted new Merger Control Guidelines ("Guidelines"). The new guidelines replace the Principles on the Assessment of Market Power, that the Cartel Office had released in 2000. A first draft of the Guidelines...

Leniency Applications Protected: German Court Denies Private Plaintiffs Access to File
Kiran S. Desai,Nathalie Jalabert Doury,Jens Peter Schmidt,Gillian Sproul, February 2, 2012
Yesterday, a decision of the Local Court of Bonn, Germany, became public denying a company seeking redress from cartelists access to a leniency application and documentary evidence submitted in the context of a cartel proceeding. Following a period of uncertainty, this is the first time - as far as...

The European Sovereign Debt Crisis - Paving the Way towards Financial Stability
Marius A. Boewe,Simon G. Grieser,Andreas Lange,Jens Peter Schmidt,Jörg Wulfken,Salomé Cisnal de Ugarte, November 15, 2011
The current European sovereign debt crisis has principally emerged with the problems of Greece, where decades of misleading accounting and statistics have brought the country to the verge of collapse. But financial difficulties have also arisen in Ireland and Portugal, and more recently in Spain...