Thomas Hildebrand

Director, E.CA

Dr Thomas Hildebrand is a director in the Berlin office. He has extensive experience supporting clients across various competition-economics fields, with a particular focus on cartel cases (eg, trucks, the air cargo and synthetic rubber cartel matters), merger proceedings (eg, RHI/Magnesita, HeidelbergCement/Italcementi and Immonet/Immowelt) and abuse of dominance cases. Thomas’ industry experience spans a broad variety of fields including grocery retailing, fast-moving consu­mer goods, chemicals, cement, refractories, automotive parts, freight forwarding, print / television / online advertising and digital markets. He has worked on cases brought before the European Commission, the German Federal Cartel Office (Bundeskartellamt) and the Swiss Competition Commission (WEKO) as well as on private litigation matters. Thanks to his empiri­cally informed background, Thomas has particular expertise in apply­ing statistical and econometric methods to cartel cases and merger proceedings.