Dr. Michael Engel is a partner in the antitrust and competition team in London. He represents clients before the European Commission, the German Federal Cartel Office and the UK Competition and Markets Authority.
Michael advises on the full spectrum of competition law, in particular European Union, German, UK and multi-jurisdictional merger control, cartels, State aid and compliance as well as foreign direct investment matters. Michael has extensive experience in advising on multi-jurisdictional merger reviews. His contentious experience includes advising clients in the context of cartel and state aid investigations, appeals of European Commission decisions to the Court of Justice of the European Union and follow-on damages actions before national courts.
Who’s Who Legal has identified Michael as one of the UK’s leading competition law practitioners and recognised him as a “Future Leader” in competition law for four consecutive years (2017–2020).
Prior to joining Kirkland & Ellis, Michael practiced competition law in the London office of Sullivan & Cromwell and also gained experience in-house at Goldman Sachs’s Investment Banking Legal Division in London.