The cartel authorities of the Land Hesse recently abandoned its action against six gas supply
companies represented by CMS Hasche Sigle.
At the end of June 2005 the Hesse cartel authorities initiated proceedings against a total of
12 gas suppliers on the grounds of alleged abusive practices associated with excessively high gas
prices. In August 2005 CMS Hasche Sigle submitted comprehensive legal opinions on behalf of Mainova
AG (Frankfurt), Stadtwerke Hanau GmbH, Stadtwerke Haiger, Stadtwerke Herborn GmbH, Gasversorgung
Main-Kinzig GmbH (Gelnhausen) and Gasversorgung Rüsselsheim GmbH respectively repudiating the
allegations of abuse of a market-dominant position. There followed intensive talks with the Hesse
cartel authorities which led to the cartel authorities discontinuing the proceedings.
Mainova AG was represented by Dr Harald Kahlenberg, the other five gas suppliers by Dr
Christian Haellmigk, both of the CMS Hasche Sigle office in Stuttgart.
Contact CMS Hasche Sigle:
Dr Harald Kahlenberg
Tel.: +49 (0)711 / 9764-103
E-mail:
Harald.Kahlenberg@cms-hs.com
Dr Christian Haellmigk
Tel.: +49 (0)711 / 9764- 504
E-mail:
Christian.Haellmigk@cms-hs.com
About CMS Hasche Sigle:
CMS Hasche Sigle is one of the leading German law firms with more than 420 lawyers. It covers
the entire area of commercial law and provides legal advice to major German and international
companies from a wide spectrum of industry.
CMS Hasche Sigle operates at all the major business centres. It has offices in Berlin,
Cologne, Duesseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Leipzig, Munich, Stuttgart, Chemnitz, Dresden, Brussels,
Belgrade, Moscow and Prague.
CMS Hasche Sigle is a partnership of lawyers and tax consultants; for register details / list
of partners see
www.cms-hs.com
CMS Hasche Sigle is a member of CMS, an alliance of leading European law firms. With over 575
partners, a total of 2,000 lawyers and tax consultants and around 3,800 support staff we advise our
clients in 24 countries in Europe and further afield on legal and tax issues.
Local strength and legal tax advice tailored to the requirements of the market combined with
a substantial amount of business and organisational integration form the basis for high-quality
international legal advice.
In addition to CMS Hasche Sigle, the following firms are also members of the CMS alliance:
CMS Adonnino Ascoli & Cavasola Scamoni (Italy), CMS Albiñana & Suárez de Lezo (Spain), CMS
Bureau Francis Lefebvre (France), CMS Cameron McKenna LLP (Great Britain), CMS DeBacker (Belgium),
CMS Derks Star Busmann (the Netherlands), CMS von Erlach Henrici (Switzerland) and CMS
Reich-Rohrwig Hainz (Austria). CMS has 57 offices in 24 countries in Western and Central Europe,
North and South America, Asia and North Africa.
For further information on CMS Hasche Sigle see
www.cms-hs.com
and on the CMS alliance see
www.cmslegal.com
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