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Managing Counsel
Kristian Helge Straton-Andersen is Managing Counsel in the EU and Competition Law practice group. He combines deep professional knowledge with a pragmatic approach and an ability to handle complex legal issues across legal areas. This has made him a trusted and sought-after advisor.
Competition law
With almost 20 years of experience in competition law, Kristian provides comprehensive advice on competition rules and has worked with virtually all aspects of the regulations in Denmark, the EU and Greenland.
He has extensive merger control experience and has handled over 100 merger notifications to the Danish Competition and Consumer Authority, the European Commission, and foreign competition authorities. Many of these cases have been complex and included remedies.
Kristian has particular expertise in advising dominant companies, including their bonus and rebate schemes, as well as advising on distribution agreements and voluntary chain collaborations. He also provides assistance in investigations and cases before the competition authorities.
He advises Danish and international companies across sectors with particular experience in the maritime, financial, retail, energy, and automotive sectors.
As co-author of ‘Market Law' and the chapters on merger control and abuse in ‘Danish Competition Act with Commentary' and author of several articles on competition law topics, Kristian has contributed significantly to the field. He has also taught as an external lecturer at the University of Copenhagen for a number of years.
FDI and FSR
Kristian is an expert in foreign direct investment (FDI) and foreign subsidy rules (FSR). He has pioneered the field and submitted some of the first applications to the Danish Business Authority under the FDI rules and to the European Commission under the FSR rules. He is also the author of 'Danish FDI Act with Commentary'.
International experience
Kristian has previously trained as an international associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP in New York and worked as a special advisor at the Danish Competition and Consumer Authority. These roles have given him deep insight into global markets and the thinking of competition authorities.
Gorrissen Federspiel 2016 -
Danish Competition and Consumer Authority 2014 - 2016
Gorrissen Federspiel 2006 - 2014
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, New York 2011
Admitted to the Danish Bar 2009
Master of Laws, University of Copenhagen 2006
English
Kristian Helge Straton-Andersen is ranked as Rising Star in Legal500
Books
Inatsisartut Act on Competition (the Greenlandic Act on Competition) with Commentary (Jurist- og Økonomforbundets Forlag) (under publication)
Danish Act on Foreign Direct Investments with Commentary by Kristian Helge Straton-Andersen (Jurist- og Økonomforbundets Forlag, 2022) (661 pages)
Danish Act on Competition with Commentary by Jacob Pinborg and Kristian Helge Straton-Andersen (Jurist- og Økonomforbundets Forlag, fifth edition, 2022) (1,660 pages)
Markedsretten by Torsten Bjørn Larsen and Kristian Helge Straton-Andersen (Karnov Group, 2019) (577 pages)
Danish Act on Competition with Commentary by Kirsten Levinsen and co-authored by Kristian Helge Andersen and Louise Kastfelt (Jurist- og Økonomforbundets Forlag, fourth edition, 2018) (1,513 pages)
Articles
EU competition law from November 2023 to October 2024 - Practice, judgments, and legislation (EU-konkurrenceret fra november 2023 til oktober 2024 – praksis, domme og lovgivning) in EU-law and Human Rights Law (EU-ret & Menneskeret) no 4/2024, p. 282-302 (co-author)
Danish Competition and Consumer Authority's guidelines for pricing in voluntary chains - stating the law? (Konkurrence- og Forbrugerstyrelsens vejledning om frivillige kæders priser - gældende ret?) in Ugeskrift for Retsvæsen 2023, p. 343-354
EU competition law in 2023 - Practice, judgments, and legislation (January to October) (EU-konkurrenceret i 2023 – praksis, domme og lovgivning (januar til oktober)) in EU-law and Human Rights Law (EU-ret & Menneskeret) no 4/2023, p. 213-231 (co-author)
The European Commission's new guidelines for cooperation between competitors (Kommissionens nye retningslinjer for samarbejder mellem konkurrenter) in EU-law and Human Rights Law (EU-ret & Menneskeret) no 3/2023, p. 105-124
The first rejection under the Danish Act on Foreign Direct Investments in Revision- & Regnskabsvæsen no 5/2023, p. 22-33
Vertical Agreements: Tilting Information Exchanges in Dual Distribution Scenarios (Denmark) in Journal of European Competition Law & Practice, Volume 13, Issue 7 (2022), p. 493-499 (co-author)
The first 6 years with the new merger control rules in the Danish Act on Competition in Revision- & Regnskabsvæsen no 1/2017, p. 36-52
Review of Christian Bergqvist, Jesper Kaltoft, and Sune Troels Poulsen, Merger Control in Denmark (Fusionskontrol i Danmark) in EU-law and Human Rights Law (EU-ret & Menneskeret) no 4/2012, p. 159-165 (co-author)
Chapters
Withdrawal (of the benefit of a block exemption), Global Dictionary of Competition Law, Concurrences, Art. N° 117573 (2024)
Co-author of Chapter 4 (Denmark) in European Competition Laws (Frank L. Fine, ed., Matthew Bender & Co, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2013, and 2012)
Co-author of chapter on Denmark in Ilene Knable Gotts (ed.), Merger control, 15th edition, Lexology (2024)
Co-author of Vertical Agreements and Dominant Firms 2019 | Denmark, International Comparative Legal Guides, 2019 and 2018
Other
"Et pereat mundus, studies in justice", Copenhagen University prize paper 2004
Danish Society for European Law
Danish Association for Competition Law
Part-time lecturer in The Law of Competition Law and Unfair Competition, University of Copenhagen 2015-2024
Teaching assistant in Market Law, University of Aalborg 2018-2020