Partner

Dr. Tim Reher, M.Jur. (Oxford)

Rechtsanwalt

Languages

German
English

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Tim Reher advises companies on all aspects of competition law, with a focus on fine proceedings and civil law damages claims. Together with his team, he has handled numerous damages cases, acting for both claimants and defendants. On the defendant's side, he coordinates the defence on a European and global level, while on the claimant's side, he prepares European-wide enforcement strategies. Tim has special pharmaceutical and medical device, food, fuels and energy as well as sports and media sector expertise. His clients in particular appreciate his skilful negotiation tactics.

Tim joined CMS in 1999 and was made partner in 2005. Alongside his legal practice, he teaches competition law at Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg and is a prolific author on competition law matters.

Awards & Recognitions

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Listed for Competition / Antitrust

Deutschlands beste Anwälte 2025 – Handelsblatt in Kooperation mit Best Lawyers
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Listed as notable practitioner

Chambers Global, Chambers Germany, 2025
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„Wir arbeiten in allen Aspekten des Bereichs mit der Kanzlei zusammen. Das reicht von der Beratung im Tagesgeschäft (etwa kartellrechtliche Fragestellungen des Vertriebs), über Streitverfahren vor Zivilgerichten oder mit dem Bundeskartellamt bis hin zu kartellrechtlichen Schulungen verschiedener Abteilungen (einschließlich der Geschäftsführung) bis hin zur Fusionskontrolle. Das Leistungsniveau des Teams um Herrn Dr. Tim Reher ist herausragend.“, Mandant

The Legal 500 Deutschland, 2025
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„Dr. Tim Reher und Dr. Nantje Johnston: Fachlich exzellent, inhaltlich extrem tief in der Materie mit einen guten strategischen Überblick. Die Zusammenarbeit ist höchst professionell und angenehm.“, Mandant

The Legal 500 Deutschland, 2025
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Führender Name im Kartellrecht (über 50 Jahre)

JUVE Handbuch, 2024/2025
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„Oft empfohlen“ für Kartellrecht

JUVE Handbuch, 2024/2025
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„kompetent, praxisnah, hervorragend“, Mandant

JUVE Handbuch, 2024/2025
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Listed for Competition / Antitrust

Deutschlands beste Anwälte 2024 – Handelsblatt in Kooperation mit Best Lawyers
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Listed as notable practitioner

Chambers Europe, 2024
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Listed as notable practitioner

Chambers Global, 2024
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‘The performance level of Tim Reher’s team is outstanding. Especially recently in the major proceedings concerning various issues of cartel damages, in which almost all of the well-known lawyer protagonists were working, we were once again able to determine that we were better positioned than many other parties involved in the proceedings.’, client

The Legal 500 EMEA, 2024
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Führender Name im Kartellrecht (über 50 Jahre)

JUVE Handbuch, 2023/2024
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„taktisch brillant“, „wir schätzen die unkomplizierte Kommunikation“, Mandanten

JUVE Handbuch, 2023/2024
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„Oft empfohlen“ für Kartellrecht

JUVE Handbuch, 2023/2024
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"In negotiation situations in particular, he is a guarantee of achieving the best possible results because he is brilliant in terms of legal tactics.", client

Chambers Europe, 2023
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Listed as notable practitioner

Chambers Europe, 2023
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Listed as leading individual

Chambers Europe, 2023
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Listed for Competition / Antitrust

Deutschlands beste Anwälte 2023 – Handelsblatt in Kooperation mit Best Lawyers
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Listed as notable practitioners

Chambers Global, 2023
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"In negotiation situations in particular, he is a guarantee of achieving the best possible results because he is brilliant in terms of legal tactics.", client

Chambers Global, 2023
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Listed as notable practitioner

Chambers Global, 2021
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"Recommended" for Antitrust

JUVE German Commercial Law Firms 2021 (GCLF)
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Führender Berater im Kartellrecht

JUVE Handbuch, 2020/2021
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Leading lawyer for competition law

Kanzleimonitor 2020, 2021
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"One client says: 'He is very sharp and has a very good tactical feeling,' further appreciating Tim Reher for 'telling you when he thinks you are on the wrong path. Some lawyers will tell you you are right even when you are not but Tim is not like that'."

Chambers Europe, 2022
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Listed as Leading Individual

Chambers Europe, 2022
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Listed as notable practitioner

Chambers Europe, 2022
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"He is very sharp and has a very good tactical feeling,", client

Chambers Global, 2022
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"telling you when he thinks you are on the wrong path. Some lawyers will tell you you are right even when you are not but Tim is not like that.", client

Chambers Global, 2022
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Listed as Leading Individual

Chambers Global, 2022
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Listed as notable practitioner

Chambers Global, 2022
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"Recommended" for Antitrust

JUVE German Commercial Law Firms 2022 (GCLF)
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"very impressed by him and his team", "tactically brilliant", clients

JUVE German Commercial Law Firms 2022 (GCLF)
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Führender Berater im Kartellrecht (über 50 Jahre)

JUVE Handbuch, 2021/2022
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Führender Anwalt Kartellrecht

Kanzleimonitor 2021/2022
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Führender Anwalt Kartellrecht

Kanzleimonitor 2022/2023
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„großer Name im Kartellschadensersatz, wir sind seit Jahren sehr zufrieden“, Mandant

JUVE Handbuch, 2022/2023
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Führender Berater im Kartellrecht (über 50 Jahre)

JUVE Handbuch, 2022/2023
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„Oft empfohlen“ für Kartellrecht

JUVE Handbuch, 2022/2023

Publications

"Millionenschaden durch Absprachen von Gebäudeausrüstern", TGA-Kartell, CMS-Blog, 03.04.2020https://www.cmshs-bloggt.de/kartellrecht/tga-kartell-schadensersatz-absprachen-von-gebaeudeausruestern/
Länderkapitel "Germany", Chambers and Partners Cartels Guide 2019 (Co-Autor)
Competition Germany - Law on cartel damages claims revised, International Law Office 2016
Kölner Kommentar zum KartellR; Kommentierung zum Bußgeldverfahren Vor. § 81 GWB, 2014
Specific issues in Cross-Border EU Competition Law Actions brought by multiple claimants in a German context, in Cross-Border EU Competition Law Actions, Hrsg. Danov, Becker, Beaumont, 2013
International Competition Litigation (Hrsg. Blanke/Nazzini), Kommentierung zum Deutschen Recht gemeinsam mit Bulst, Hilbig und Mäger, Kluwer 2012
The European Commission's Journey to a Directive on Damages Actions: One Step forward - Two Steps Back, The European Antitrust Review 2011, p. 53 ff
Towards the Directive on Private Enforcement of EC Competition Law: Is the Time Ripe?, The European Antitrust Review 2010, p. 43 ff
Die kartellrechtliche Rückzahlungsverpflichtung "nach § 32 GWB". Eine kritische Betrachtung der kartellbehördlichen Befugnisse nach der "Stadtwerke Uelzen"-Entscheidung des BGH, WuW 2010, p. 513
Plans for Private Antitrust Damages Actions Directive Suffer Setbach, ILO-Newsletter 2010
Dawn Raids: Federal Cartel Office scrutinizes market for consumer products, ILO-Newsletter 2010
Commission publishes study on quantification of damages, ILO-Newsletter 2010
The Commission's White Paper on Damages Actions for Breach of the EC Antitrust Rules, The European Antitrust Review 2009
Commission plans Private Antitrust Enforcement Directive, ILO-Newsletter 2009
German Federal Cartel Offices fines pharmaceutical companies, pharmacy associations and pharmacies in Germany for resale price maintenance, ILO- (International Law Office) Newsletter 2008
European Initiative on Damages Action for Breach of Competition Rules, The European Antitrust Review 2008, p. 46-49
The Commission's Green Paper on Damages Actions for Break of Competition Rules, The European Antitrust Review 2007, p. 40 f
"Kartellrechtliche Schadensersatzansprüche nach 7. GWB Novelle für Altfälle am Beispiel des Vitaminkartells", Liber Amicorum für Alexander Riesenkampff zum 70. Geburtstag, Verlag C.H. Beck, 2007, p. 40 ff
Federal Cartel Office Announces New Leniency Programme, ILO-Newsletter 2006
Kommentierung der Spezialisierungsvereinbarungen, Kommentierung der Spezialisierungsvereinbarungen, Verlag C.H. Beck, München 2006
Antitrust Amendments: Private Enforcement US-Style, International Law Office, Legal Newsletter 2005
Court Rules on Damages Claims Against Cartel Members, International Law Office - Legal Newsletter 2005
Kartellrecht und Risikomanagement, Hansa 2004, p. 22 ff
First Vitamins Victory for an Industrial Customer, Global Competition Review 2004
Wegfall des Rabattgesetzes eröffnet neue Werbemöglichkeiten, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) 2000
Einschränkungen der Tabakwerbung bleiben möglich, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) 2000
Tabakwerbung ist nicht gänzlich verboten, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) 2000
Das Werbeverbot für Tabakerzeugnisse - geht das Prinzip der begrenzten Einzelermächtigung in Rauch auf?, EWS 1998, p. 294 ff
Gesetzgebungskompetenzen der Gemeinschaft nach dem Urteil des EuGH zur Einlagensicherung, EWS 1997, p. 366 ff
Gesellschaftsrecht in Gemeinsamen Märkten, Nomos 1997

Lectures list

Main Features of European Corporate and Capital Market Law, lecture given in Europäische Rechtsakademie Trier (ERA), in October 1999
European Corporate and Capital Market Law after the Centros Decision from the European Court of Justice, lecture in the Europäische Rechtsakademie Trier (ERA) in September 2000
International Merger Control, English-speaking training session at the Bucerius Law School in Hamburg, in the autumn term of 2002
Competition Law: "Co-operations and Joint Ventures", English lecture at the Bucerius Law School, Hamburg, Autumn term 2003
Seminar "Current Questions of German and European Competition Law", lecturer at the Bucerius Law School, Summer term 2004, ongoing
together with Prof. Dr K. Schmidt Competition Law: "Cartels, Merger Control and Joint Ventures", English lecture at the Bucerius Law School, Hamburg, Autumn term 2004
Competition Law and Merger Control, English lecture at the Bucerius Law School, Hamburg, since 2005
Private Enforcement: Schadenersatz wie in den USA? CMS-Seminar zur 7. GWB-Novelle, München, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Autumn term 2005
Anti-trust/Competition Law, joint Master of Law and Business Program Bucerius Law School and WHU School of Management, visiting professor, 2006/2007
Speaker on Cartel Damages Claims in Germany, American Bar Association, autumn conference "EU Antitrust Litigation - Mouse or Mountain?", London, 5 October 2007
Introduction an new trends in EU and German Competition Law, C.H. Beck Seminar, since 2007 at Munich, Cologne, Düsseldorf and Hamburg
Speaker on GCR 2009 Competition Law Review Conference "Damages Actions for Breach of the EC Antitrust Rules", Brussels, 17 November 2009
CMS Competition Conference 2011, Panel Diskussionsleiter on Private Actions, Enforce Competition Law, 2011, Brüssel
Specific issues in Cross-Border EU Competition Law Actions brought by multiple claimants in Cross-Border EU Competition Law Actions, London April 2012
CMS Competition Conference 2013
CMS Competition Conference 2013, Panel Diskussionsleiter zur Entwicklung von zivilrechtlichen Kartellschadensersatzansprüchen, Brüssel
CMS Competition Conference 2015, Vortrag zur praktischen Erfahrungen mit der Durchsetzung von kartellzivilrechtlichen Schadensersatzansprüchen vor deutschen Gerichten

Education

Trainee lawyer in Hamburg
PhD; topic: European corporate law (comparative law thesis)
Research assistant in the special research centre "Economic and Legal Analysis of the international Trade in Services" of the German Research Foundation at Konstanz University
Magister Juris graduate course in law at University of Oxford, Exeter College
Law studies in Konstanz

Practice Areas

Antitrust, Competition & Trade Intellectual Property In-Court and Out-of-Court Representation Litigation

sectors

Life Sciences & Healthcare

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