Stephan Manuel Nagel, LL.M. (EUI)

With comprehensive expertise, Manuel advises clients on German and European competition law. His practice includes cross-border mergers, proceedings by competition authorities, competition litigation (in particular cartel damages), competition compliance, internal audits, distribution systems and agreements, as well as co-operations between companies. He represents clients in proceedings before the Federal Cartel Office, the European Commission and in court.

His successful management of large-scale projects and his consulting activities in Europe and Asia are part of his professional competence and portfolio. Manuel is a renowned expert when it comes to questions of competition law relating to the digital economy. A further focus of his expertise is in trade, energy, innovative industries, advertising and media.

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CV

Since 2015 Partner, Taylor Wessing

2009 – 2015 Principal associate, Antitrust, Competition and Trade Practice Group Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Cologne

2011 Secondment to E.ON SE

Career

Since 2015 Partner, Taylor Wessing

2009 – 2015 Principal associate, Antitrust, Competition and Trade Practice Group Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Cologne

2011 Secondment to E.ON SE

Education

2014 University of St. Gallen – School of Management, Economics, Law, Social Sciences and International Affairs, Summer School in Management

2008 Second state examination, Düsseldorf

2006 – 2008 Legal clerkship, Regional Court of Cologne including stages at the Bundeskartellamt (Federal Cartel Office), the Cologne office of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and the First Cartel Senate of the Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf

Publications

Wasserstoffrecht | Rechtsrahmen der Wasserstoffwirtschaft, 12/2025

Keine Zuständigkeit ohne Zuständigkeit - Das Urteil des EuGH in Sachen Illumina GRAIL, in: ZWeR 2025, 123-144, together with: Marieka Müller-Steinmann

Eckpunkte einer IP-Strategie für Deutschland, in: Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie e.V., with Nora E. Wessendorf and Niklas Melzer

Die neue Vertikal-GVO, Stephan Manuel Nagel LL.M. (EUI), Dr. Marco Hartmann-Rüppel, Dr. Benedikt Rohrßen, 06/ 2022

Instagram könnte als Risiko-Anwendung eingestuft werden, Interview mit Wolfgang Stieler, in: heise online, 05/2021

Nagel/Horn, Die Facebook-Entscheidung des BGH – ein neuer Kompass für die Missbrauchskontrolle?, in: ZWeR 1/2021, S. 78 ff.

Nagel/Hillmer, Die 10. GWB-Novelle – Update für die Missbrauchsaufsicht in der Digitalwirtschaft, in: DER BETRIEB, Februar 2021, 327

Nagel/Hillmer, "Die 10. GWB-Novelle – Änderungen im Verfahrens-, Bußgeld-, Schadensersatz- und Fusionskontrollrecht", in: DER BETRIEB 2021, 494

Der Markt wird grüner – Was kann das Kartellrecht zur Umsetzung des Green New Deal beitragen? PlugIn – Wir denken das Recht der digitalen Zukunft, Ausgabe #34, Februar 2021

Kartellrecht für den Digitalen Binnenmarkt, PlugIn – Wir denken das Recht der digitalen Zukunft, Ausgabe #31, September 2020

Nagel, Kommentierung der VO/EU Nr. 316/2014 (Technologietransfer-GVO), Münchener Kommentar zum Wettbewerbsrecht, Band 1 Europäisches Wettbewerbsrecht, 3. Aufl.

Nagel, „Price Algorithms as a Compliance Risk", PlugIn – Wir denken das Recht der digitalen Zukunft, Edition #21, Mai 2019

Nagel/Stemmler, „Antitrust Assessment of Best Price Clauses on Hotel Reservation Platforms", PlugIn – Wir denken das Recht der digitalen Zukunft, Ausgabe #21, Mai 2019

Nagel, „Preisalgorithmen als Compliance-Risiko", Compliance, Die Zeitschrift für Compliance-Verantwortliche, März 2018

Nagel, „Rezension Vertragshandbuch Stromwirtschaft“, NJW 27/2015

Nagel/Dogan, „Monopolies Commission‘s Findings on Online Advertising“, E-Commerce Law and Policy, August 2015

Broomhall/Nagel/Scholz, „The application of competition law to the energy sector: An overview and comparison of recent practice by the Bundeskartellamt and the EU Commission”, Revue des droits de la concurrence, Concurrences No. 3-2013

Broomhall/Nagel/Scholz, „Anti-competitive practices in the energy sector: An overview of EU and national case law“, e-Competitions, No. 41759

Memberships & Associations

Arbeitskreis Kartellrecht des Deutschen Instituts für Compliance e.V.
Arbeitskreis Recht im Unternehmen und Compliance der bitkom
Arbeitskreis Wettbewerbs- und Verbraucherrecht der bitkom
Competition Litigation Forum
DJW, Deutsch-Japanischer Wirtschaftskreis
Rechtsanwaltskammer Düsseldorf
Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht e.V.

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Awards

WirtschaftsWoche 2026

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Experience

Bilfinger SE

Competition law and compliance advice regarding inter alia an online platform and R&D collaborations. Provision of competition compliance trainings.

Stephan Manuel Nagel, LL.M. (EUI)

DEUTZ AG

Competition law and compliance advice regarding inter alia an online platform and R&D cooperations; competition compliance trainings.

Stephan Manuel Nagel, LL.M. (EUI)

Dr. Stefan Horn, LL.B.

Lara Nonnenmühlen

thyssenkrupp

Advice on competition law and competition compliance; competition and merger control law advice with respect to the sale of thyssenkrupp Infrastructure GmbH.

Stephan Manuel Nagel, LL.M. (EUI)

Dr. Stefan Horn, LL.B.

Lara Nonnenmühlen

Compagnie de Saint-Gobain

Competition and merger control law advice to Saint-Gobain, a leading European manufacturer of construction and high-performance materials, including inter alia the acquisition of Kaimann GmbH, one of the leading European manufacturers of elastomeric insulation materials, and the establishment of a joint venture with RIB Software.

Stephan Manuel Nagel, LL.M. (EUI)

REWE Group

Competition and merger control law advice to REWE on various projects, among others on the acquisitions of coop and Lekkerland. REWE is one of the most important German trading and tourism companies, which we advise on various large-scale cross-border projects.

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Stephan Manuel Nagel, LL.M. (EUI)

Dr. Stefan Horn, LL.B.

Martin Eckel, LL.M.

Ströer SE

Advising Ströer, the leading German provider of out-of-home media and internet group, on the acquisition of the German business of the online marketing service provider ReachLocal and the acquisition of shares in StayFriends, Social Media Interactive and Vitalsana.

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Stephan Manuel Nagel, LL.M. (EUI)