Malte Frank

COUNSEL

PhoneT+49 30 20374 537

malte.frank@hengeler.com

Malte advises clients on all aspects of competition and European law as well as international trade law.

Malte has guided clients from a wide variety of industries through litigation and regulatory investigations, often in cross-border and strategical cases. He joined the firm in 2016 and has since represented clients before the European and national courts, such as the German Court of Justice and the Belgian Constitutional Court, the European Commission, competition authorities of various EU Member States and the U.S. Department of Justice.

Malte's practice focuses on the digital, media, sports, automotive, energy and pharmaceutical sectors.

He regularly publishes on competition and sports law issues and advises athletes and sports associations on litigious matters, including in proceedings before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).

Career

Admitted to bar 2016
University of Leipzig (Dr. iur.)
University of Heidelberg
Université Geneva
Georgetown University Law School, Washington

Recent Work

Hengeler Mueller announces three new partners and ten new counsel

Hengeler Mueller represents Landwärme successfully in proceeding on Swedish aid scheme for biomethane before the European General Court

Hengeler Mueller secures German merger clearance for Meta's acquisition of Kustomer

Practice Areas

Publications

Der Abschied von den drei Streifen: Verrat am Standortpatriotismus oder kartellrechtliche Prinzipientreue (Farewell to the three stripes: Betrayal of local roots or loyalty to competition law principles), Zeitschrift für Sport und Recht 2024, 179-183
The Race to Regulate Big Tech – Lessons from Germany, (2023) 31 Australian Journal of Competition and Consumer Law 312-322
Der Ratsbeschluss zur Amtszeitbegrenzung des FIFA-Präsidenten: Wir machen uns die Welt wie sie uns gefällt (The Council's decision on term limits for the FIFA President: We see the world the way we want it), Zeitschrift für Sport und Recht 2023, 455-460
The EU’s new Foreign Subsidy Regulation on collision course with the WTO, Common Market Law Review, Volume 60 (2023) Issue 4, 925-958
Die Exklusivität als Schlüssel zur Lösung einer der umstrittensten Fragen des Kartellrechts – die Vermarktung von Sportübertragungsrechten (Exclusivity as the key to solve one of the most controversial issues in competition law – the sale of sports broadcasting rights), SpoPrax 2023, 228-223
Die zweite Halbzeit – Eine rechtsvergleichende Untersuchung der exklusiven, gekoppelten, territorial beschränkten und zentralisierten Vermarktung von Sportübertragungsrechten (The Second Half – A Comparative Legal Study of the Exclusive, Tied, Territorially Restricted and Centralized Marketing of Sports Broadcasting Rights), Nomos (ISBN 978-3-7560-0501-7)
Drei Engel für Mats – Die Selbstöffnung als Grenze des Persönlichkeitsrechtsschutzes von Sportlern und Influencern in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz (Three Angels for Mats – Self-disclosure as Limitation of the Protection of the Personal Rights of Athletes and Influencers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland), Zeitschrift für Urheber- und Medienrecht 2022, 700-705; Nachdruck (reprint) medialex 01/2023, 8. Februar 2023
Google/Fitbit: the starting point for a revolution in merger remedies in digital markets?, (2021) 42/6 European Competition Law Review 297-302 (nominated for the Antitrust Writing Awards 2022)
Ein Piratensender auf Sport-Raubzug – und die WTO zappt weg (A Pirate-Station on a Raid against the Sport - and the WTO zaps through the Channel), causa sport 1/2021, 31-42
A "Facelift" to the Abuse of Dominance – The German Competition Perspective on Facebook, (2020) 28 Australian Journal of Competition and Consumer Law 188-195
Die Zukunft der Kostenpflicht für Polizeieinsätze im Umfeld von Fußballspielen (The future of the duty to refund the costs for police operations at soccer matches), Verwaltungsarchiv 2020, 250-269
Der privilege-waiver durch oral-downloads – eine (nicht ganz) neue Herausforderung für unternehmensinterne Ermittlungen? (The privilege-waiver through oral-downloads – a not quite new challenge for internal investigations?), Corporate Compliance Zeitschrift 2018, 218-223
Das Eigentor (The own goal), Juristische Schulung 2018, 56-63
Das englische Einfallstor – Wie sicher sind Interviewprotokolle unternehmensinterner Ermittlungen? (The English gap – How safe are interview notes in internal investigations?), Corporate Compliance Zeitschrift 2017, 119-204
Supercup im Ausland – Verlegung mit Hindernissen (The foreign venue for the Supercup – A relocation with obstacles), SPONSOR's 5/2017, 12-13
Der Prince und seine Bilder (The Prince and his pictures), GRUR International 2015, 1106-1110
Kein Alkoholverbot ist auch keine Lösung (No alcohol ban is not a solution either), Juristische Arbeitsblätter 2012, 680-689

Memberships

Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht e.V.
Deutsche Vereinigung für Sportrecht e.V. (DVSR)
Deutsche Institution für Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit (DIS) e.V.