Susanne Zimmermann’s practice focuses on European and German competition law.

Susanne joined the firm in 2024. In 2014, she was a stagiaire in our Washington, D.C. office and from 2015 to 2016 she was a stagiaire in our Cologne office.

From 2017 to 2023, she worked for another international law firm in Düsseldorf.

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Notable Experience

Prior to joining Cleary, Susanne’s experience included:

  • Car parts manufacturer HELLA on all competition law related aspects of its 6.8 billion takeover by French car parts supplier Faurecia.

  • Agricultural trading companies HaGe Nord/BSL in cartel proceedings by the German Federal Cartel Office in the plant protection products’ business.

  • Industrial and technology group thyssenkrupp on all competition law related aspects of the sale of its mining business to FLSmidth.

  • Intralogistics group Jungheinrich on the acquisition of Storage Solutions, Inc. 

  • Copper producer and recycler Aurubis on all competition law related aspects of the proposed sale of its Flat Rolled Products’ segment (Flachwalzsparte) to Wieland-Werke.

  • thyssenkrupp in cartel proceedings by the German Federal Cartel Office in the heavy plates’ business.

  • HELLA on all competition law related aspects of the sale of its shareholding in HBPO to co-shareholder Plastic Omnium.

  • HELLA on all competition law related aspects of its sale of FTZ Autodele & Verktoj and Inter-Team to Swedish car parts supplier Mekonomen.

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Selected Activities

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Member of the Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht

Publications

Access to real time data for rail passenger transport services - a comparative assessment under EU and German competition law

Digital Joint Ventures – ein Playbook für rechtliche und steuerliche Fragestellungen, in: Betriebs – Berater, Vol. 32/2023

Strafbarkeitsrisiken durch Compliance – Auswirkungen von Compliance-Regelungen auf das Wirtschaftsstrafrecht in: Strafrechtliche Abhandlunglen, Vol.255, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2014