Christian Ritz, LL.M. (USYD)

Christian Ritz handles complex antitrust and competition law matters, multi-jurisdictional authority investigations as well as internal investigations and compliance issues.

In particular, Christian's practice focuses on representing his clients in dawn raids and providing them with strategic guidance and legal advice in multi-jurisdictional investigations, including complex internal investigations. Additionally, Christian represents his clients in cartel damages litigation and regularly advises them on the development and implementation of global compliance systems. Christian defends his clients against compliance violation claims and advises them in civil litigation cases following compliance breaches.

He also advises regularly on global merger control and cooperation agreements.

A specific focus of his practice is on ESG related topics both in the field of competition law ("Green Competition") and compliance ("ESG Compliance").

Christian has been ranked as the only antitrust lawyer from Germany in the prestigious Global Competition Review's '40 under 40' quadrennial list of the top young antitrust lawyers in 2020.  He has been recognized as Rising Star Lawyer for Competition and Antitrust at the Rising Star Awards 2020 Europe by IFLR. In 2021, he has been listed for the second consecutive time by prestigious German journal WirtschaftsWoche among the most renowned antitrust and competition lawyers in Germany.

Christian undertook his legal education at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and the Université Paris-Sud, France. He obtained a Master of Laws degree (LL.M.) from the University of Sydney, Australia. 

Christian publishes and speaks regularly on topical issues in the field of antitrust, investigations and compliance.