Sebastian Panthöfer
Director
Sebastian provides economic advice in competition matters, including in relation to abuses of dominance, horizontal agreements, mergers, market investigations, and digital markets regulation.
He has advised clients before the European Commission, German Bundeskartellamt, UK Competition and Markets Authority, Austrian Bundeswettbewerbsbehörde, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, US Federal Trade Commission, and Turkish Competition Authority, as well as in court proceedings in various countries.
His industry experience includes artificial intelligence, ad tech, cloud services, social networks, telecoms, food retail, care and beauty products, trucks, beer, steel, canned vegetables, timber products, television, chemicals, carsharing, and non-wovens. Among others, he has advised on the merger control proceedings Amazon/Anthropic, car2go/DriveNow, ALTANA/Von Roll, Super RTL/Nick, Georgia Pacific/Glatfelter.
Sebastian graduated with a PhD in Economics from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, where he was also a teaching assistant. His research has been published in Health Economics and Journal of Empirical Legal Studies. He has also published on competition policy in Neue Zeitschrift für Kartellrecht and Wirtschaft und Wettbewerb.
Sebastian is based in CRA’s Düsseldorf office. His working languages are German and English.
Education
- PhD Economics, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
- MSc Economics, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
- Diploma Economics, Universität zu Köln, Germany