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Kai Woeste
Kai Woeste
Rechtsanwalt
Associate, Antitrust and Competition
T +49 30 214 802 700
E kai.woeste@blomstein.com
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Kai Woeste specialises in German and European antitrust and competition law. He advises German and international clients before the German and European courts, the European Commission and the Federal Cartel Office.

Kai is admitted to the Bar in Germany (Rechtsanwalt). He is also a member of the Association of German Antitrust Lawyers (Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht).

Languages: German, English, French

References

  • Representing Vodafone before the Federal Court of Justice (BGH) and the Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf (OLG Düsseldorf) in relation to a third-party intervention against a Bundeskartellamt decision clearing a joint venture between Deutsche Telekom and EWE subject to remedies

  • Antitrust law advice to and representation of EDEKA in several ongoing follow-on damages proceedings

CV

Kai studied law at the University of Münster with a focus on “markets and competition”. After his first state exam, he worked as a research assistant in the antitrust law department of an international law firm and at the Humboldt University of Berlin (Prof Dr. Heike Schweitzer).

Kai completed his legal traineeship (Referendariat) at the Higher Regional Court of Berlin, including stages at the German Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action and BLOMSTEIN.

Publications

  • Commentary on Articles 20–27 DMA, in: Bunte (Kartellrecht-Kommentar), 14th edition (forthcoming)

  • Der „Private Attorney General“: Ein Modell für die private Rechtsdurchsetzung des Marktordnungsrechts?, in: Grundmann/Thiessen (eds.), Das Recht und seine Durchsetzung, pp. 201 ff., 2026 (preprint available here) (with Heike Schweitzer)

  • Nächster Etappensieg für Kartellgeschädigte: BGH erleichtert Schadensschätzung, Anmerkung zur “LKW-Kartell IV” – Entscheidung des BGH, Wirtschaft und Wettbewerb (WuW) 2024, p. 591

  • Obituary for Heike Schweitzer (1968–2024), Jahrbuch für die Ordnung von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft (ORDO) 2024, p. 1-24 (with other former research assistants of Heike Schweitzer)

  • Schmutzige Wäsche im Arbeitskreis – Reinigungshinweise des BGH an das OLG Frankfurt, D'Kart Antitrust Blog, 26 January 2023 (with Marie-Luise Heuer)

  • Zum Umgang mit ökonomischer Unsicherheit bei der Schätzung von Kartellschäden: Eckpfeiler eines kartellschadensersatzspezifischen Beweisrechts, Zeitschrift für Wettbewerbsrecht (ZWeR) 2022, p. 46-79 (with Heike Schweitzer)

  • Die Haftung von Konzerngesellschaften im europäischen Wettbewerbsrecht – Der wettbewerbsrechtliche Unternehmensbegriff und seine Legitimationsgrundlagen, in: Bergmann et al. (eds.), Vom Konzern zum Einheitsunternehmen (ZGR Sonderheft 22), p. 141-172 (with Heike Schweitzer)

  • Plausibilisierungsobliegenheiten im Falle einer Nullschadensbehauptung – Auf dem Weg zu einem kartellschadensersatzspezifischen Beweisrecht, Neue Zeitschrift für Kartellrecht (NZKart) 2021, p. 676-679 (with Heike Schweitzer)

  • Bereicherungsrecht als Alternative zum Kartellschadensersatz: Passing-on defense im Bereicherungsausgleich?, Zeitschrift für Wettbewerbsrecht (ZWeR) 2018, p. 392-408

Presentations

  • Der Umgang des Rechts mit ökonomischer Unsicherheit im Kartellschadensersatzrecht, Kartellsenat des Bundesgerichtshofs, Karlsruhe, 17 September 2021

  • Entgangener Gewinn durch Schadensabwälzung – “more economic approach” im Kartellschadensersatzrecht?, Weizenbaum-Institut, Berlin, 4 March 2020