Christine Dietz is brilliant. She is able very quickly to understand the issues and to deliver advice that is easy to digest and practically useful, even where the underlying issues are complex.
Christine Dietz
Partner, Mag.a, LL.M. (London)
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English, French, GermanChristine Dietz is a partner in the firm's Competition Law Team and has 20 years of experience in advising Austrian and international clients from a large number of industries on all questions of Austrian and EU antitrust and competition law.
She focuses on
- Austrian and EU merger control
- Austrian and EU antitrust and competition law
- compliance and investigations, eDiscovery audits
- EU state aid law
Christine is listed by Chambers Europe 2025 as one of the leading lawyers in Competition/European Law, is ranked as "leading individual" in Legal 500 (2025) and is recognized as a “WWL Thought Leader” in the current edition of Who’s Who Legal (WWL).
She began her career as a legal assistant with Llewelyn Zietman in London and Neil Wilkof & Co Advocates in Tel Aviv and joined Binder Grösswang in 2001. Christine Dietz studied law in Vienna and at the Université Panthéon-Assass in Paris (Mag. iur. 1996) as well as at King's College in London (LL.M. 1998).
She is a member of the Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht and the International Bar Association (IBA).
Christine is co-editor and co-author of the first standalone commentary on Austrian merger control, which was published in April 2024.
- Advising an d representing clients in numerous merger proceedings in Austria an before the European Commission as well as advising clients in regard to such proceedings before other national competition authorities
- Advising and representing clients in competition law leniency proceedings
- Advising and representing clients in competition law proceedings regarding the imposition of fines
- Advising clients on competition law matters, inter alia, in regard to the following areas: food, steel, transport, construction material, consumer goods, energy, logistics, gambling, insurance et al.
- Advising clients in competition law proceedings regarding the abuse of a dominant position
- Advising clients on competition law matters in the fields of banking and finance, e.g., concerning payment cards, mergers and cooperation agreements in the banking sector
- Compliance training, eDiscovery audits
- Advising clients in EU state aid law matters
Profile
Christine Dietz is a partner in the firm's Competition Law Team and has 20 years of experience in advising Austrian and international clients from a large number of industries on all questions of Austrian and EU antitrust and competition law.
She focuses on
- Austrian and EU merger control
- Austrian and EU antitrust and competition law
- compliance and investigations, eDiscovery audits
- EU state aid law
Christine is listed by Chambers Europe 2025 as one of the leading lawyers in Competition/European Law, is ranked as "leading individual" in Legal 500 (2025) and is recognized as a “WWL Thought Leader” in the current edition of Who’s Who Legal (WWL).
She began her career as a legal assistant with Llewelyn Zietman in London and Neil Wilkof & Co Advocates in Tel Aviv and joined Binder Grösswang in 2001. Christine Dietz studied law in Vienna and at the Université Panthéon-Assass in Paris (Mag. iur. 1996) as well as at King's College in London (LL.M. 1998).
She is a member of the Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht and the International Bar Association (IBA).
Christine is co-editor and co-author of the first standalone commentary on Austrian merger control, which was published in April 2024.
Experience
- Advising an d representing clients in numerous merger proceedings in Austria an before the European Commission as well as advising clients in regard to such proceedings before other national competition authorities
- Advising and representing clients in competition law leniency proceedings
- Advising and representing clients in competition law proceedings regarding the imposition of fines
- Advising clients on competition law matters, inter alia, in regard to the following areas: food, steel, transport, construction material, consumer goods, energy, logistics, gambling, insurance et al.
- Advising clients in competition law proceedings regarding the abuse of a dominant position
- Advising clients on competition law matters in the fields of banking and finance, e.g., concerning payment cards, mergers and cooperation agreements in the banking sector
- Compliance training, eDiscovery audits
- Advising clients in EU state aid law matters
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