Dr Marcel Nuys
Dr Marcel Nuys is a Partner in our Düsseldorf and Brussels office and leads our German Competition practice.
He advises on all aspects of European and German competition law. His practice focuses on complex merger control proceedings, cartels, abuse of dominance proceedings, compliance programmes, and antitrust damage proceedings. He regularly advises clients on the EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation. Marcel advises clients in a variety of industries, including automotive, technology, media and telecommunications, transportation and logistics, consumer goods and energy.
Marcel is regularly recognised as a leading lawyer for Competition in Germany ("Top-Anwalt für Kartellrecht") by WirtschaftsWoche. Clients praise him as "very knowledgeable, but never gets lost in technical details, quick and pragmatic - fantastic lawyer" (JUVE Handbook 2023/24) and as "responsive, smart, pragmatic – a pleasure to work with." (JUVE Handbook 2024/25). Competitors stress his "exceptional professional expertise" (JUVE 2025).
Marcel regularly speaks at conferences on competition law developments and contributes to thought leadership. He is a co-editor of GTDT’s Competition in Digital Markets in the EU (here), is a regular contributor to the Competition Notes and Co-editor of the Cartel Intel.
Accolades
- The German CRT team has been ranked as recommended competition practice in Germany by Global Competition Review (GCR 100, 2026)
- "highly pragmatic, with a keen eye for detail and potential pitfalls, and exceptional professional expertise", Competitor, JUVE 2025
- "responsive, smart, pragmatic – a pleasure to work with", Client, JUVE Handbook 2024/25
- "combines high creativity with legal expertise", Competitor, JUVE Handbook 2024/25
- Listed in "Best Lawyers in Germany” for Competition/Antitrust Law, Best Lawyers/Handelsblatt 2025
- "very knowledgeable, but never gets lost in technical details, quick and pragmatic – fantastic lawyer", Client, JUVE Handbook 2023/24
- "pleasant, cooperative, self-confident", Competitor, JUVE Handbook 2023/24
- Recognised as a leading lawyer for Competition in Germany ("Top-Anwalt für Kartellrecht"), WirtschaftsWoche 2023
- "emerging competition practice", "pragmatic and goal-oriented", Clients, JUVE Handbook 2021/22
Experience & capabilities
Selected matters
- Comcast on competition, merger control, foreign direct investment, foreign subsidies questions and other regulatory aspects of its sale of Sky DACH (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) to RTL Deutschland
- Rheinmetall AG on competition and merger control aspects of various acquisitions, inter alia the acquisition of Expal Systems S.A., Hagedorn-NC GmbH, and Lürssen's naval division NVL
- Deutsche Lufthansa on competition law aspects of the sale of its market leading European inflight catering business to gategourmet including securing a conditional Phase I clearance by the European Commission
- Deutsche Lufthansa on merger control questions regarding the sale of their global (non-European) inflight catering business to private equity company Aurelius Group
- AerCap on obtaining clearance from the EU and a number of other jurisdictions (in particular Germany and Austria) for its US$30 billion combination with General Electric Capital Aviation Services
- Mitsubishi Motors Corporation in relation to the European Commission's automotive end-of-life vehicles cartel investigation
- Metair in relation to the European Commission‘s automotive starter batteries cartel investigation
- The Coca-Cola Company in a preliminary antitrust investigation by the European Commission, which was terminated without proceedings being opened
- Iveco and Stellantis on defending against follow-on damages claims in Germany stemming from the European Commission's settlement decision in Trucks
- Nachi-Fujikoshi Corporation in respect of follow-on damages claims and related contribution claims arising out of the European Commission's decision in the automotive bearings cartel
- Bharat Forge on its worldwide defence of follow-on damages claims arising from the German Federal Cartel Office's steel mills and aluminium mills cartel decisions
- A plastic processing company on potential follow-on damages claims in the context of an European Commission decision against Etyhlen purchasers
- Sky Deutschland (ongoing) on a wide range of competition law questions
- The Coca Cola Company (ongoing) on competition law questions
Background
Marcel is business fluent in English and has very good knowledge of Portuguese.
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