Malte Symann

Malte is a member of our antitrust, competition and trade practice.

Malte advises clients on all aspects of European and German competition law, including complex merger control proceedings, cartel investigations, and European tech regulation. He inter alia worked on international cartel investigations as well as complex merger control proceedings which were reviewed by the European Commission, the UK CMA, the US DOJ, the Chinese SAMR and other authorities worldwide in parallel. Malte further advises clients on the DMA and other European tech regulation and was on in-house secondment at one of our major clients in the U.S. for 8 months.

In addition, Malte provides strategic advice on foreign direct investment, state aid, and other matters which require political expertise. He leads our engagements on geopolitics at several high-profile forums such as the Munich Security Conference, the Shangri-La Dialogue Singapore, the Warsaw Security Forum, and other conferences worldwide. Furthermore, Malte has been appointed by the European Economic and Social Committee as an expert on rule of law matters.  He regularly publishes legal analyses and briefings on various subjects.

Malte is part of our ACTech group, driving legal innovation and providing efficient solutions for clients, and our Nordics group, focusing on clients from Scandinavia. At Freshfields, he inter alia initiated an internship programme for displaced law students from Ukraine. Malte has been working at our Berlin, Brussels and San Francisco offices and...