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Sarah Blazek advises clients on all aspects of European and German antitrust and competition law, including the coordination of merger control filings involving multiple jurisdictions. She represents clients in competition authorities’ fine proceedings before the European Commission and the German Federal Cartel Office. Besides this, she advises on compliance issues and assists clients in developing and implementing compliance programmes. Sarah also advises on current digital antitrust issues. As a key member of the “Noerr Data Competence Center”, she helps clients design their future-proof data and digitalisation projects, such as online platforms and cooperative ventures between competitors, in line with competition and antitrust law. Another of Sarah’s main focuses is on European State aid law, supporting clients in complex and time-critical proceedings before the European Commission and the European courts. Her practice covers all general State aid issues as well as specific problems arising in the context of rescue and restructuring aid (including in the finance sector), funding for large-scale infrastructure projects and most recently for crisis State aid in the course of the coronavirus pandemic, the war in the Ukraine and green and digital transformation. Sarah also advises on the new EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation.
