Samira Altdorf, LL.M. (Brussels School of Competition)

Samira Altdorf primarily advises on all questions concerning German and European antitrust and distribution law as well as the extrajudicial and procedural settlement of disputes.

Antitrust Law
Energy Law
Compliance & Internal Investigations

After successfully completing her legal studies at the University of Bielefeld and at Heinrich-Heine University in Düsseldorf (both Germany), Samira Altdorf carried out her legal training at the Regional Court of Aachen in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, which included working for the Administrative Court of Aachen. As a pupil, she spent half a school year at Colegio Alemán Alexander von Humboldt in Mexico City (Mexico).

Samira Altdorf has been with Luther since 2017 in the area of litigation and complex disputes as well as in the area of antitrust law (2019).

• Member of Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht e.V.

• 12.12.2022: Die neue Vertikal-Gruppenfreistellungsverordnung (EU) 2022/720 nebst Vertikal-Leitlinien – Kontinuität und Umbruch in der Vertriebspraxis
• 03.11.2022: 11. GWB-Novelle: Neue Eingriffsbefugnisse des Bundeskartellamts – Entflechtung trotz Rechtstreue?

• New draft German antitrust bill: Will the Federal Cartel Office be vested with new powers to order unbundling on any disfunctional market without having to prove a violation of an-titrust laws?
• Luther Competition Law Forecast 2022 – Topics that will be important under antitrust law in 2022
• Antitrust and distribution – current status of the reform of the Block Exemption Regulation for distribution agreements (VBER)?
• Challenges in dealing with cross-border cartel cases – why is this so relevant right now?
• ECJ defines end of bid-rigging cartels and limits of enforcement
• Federal Cartel Office launches sector inquiry on messenger services - the next step to a "Super Consumer Protection Authority" in the digital world?
• Today, in its decision the German Federal Court of Justice confirmed in summary proceedings that the extensive collection and use of data by Facebook across multiple services could constitute an abuse of a dominant market position (case no. KVR 69/19)
• Overcoming the crisis in the automotive sector: The Bundeskartellamt temporarily tolerates certain forms of cooperation during the restart of production and restructuring
• Effects of the corona pandemic on energy supply contracts - Contract adjustment due to force majeure or hardship?
• Collective follow-on cartel damages actions: 600 million Euros group claim for follow-on damages (truck cartel) rejected by Regional Court of Munich I