Elena Engels
Elena Engels is counsel at Geradin Partners. She is a dispute resolution lawyer specialising in competition litigation and damages claims and represents clients in high-stakes antitrust proceedings, with a particular focus on complex and cross-border litigation.
Beyond antitrust matters, her practice extends to commercial and post-M&A disputes, both before state and arbitral courts. She also advises clients on emerging areas of contentious work, including climate and ESG-related litigation.
Before joining Geradin Partners, Elena worked for Freshfields’ dispute resolution practice.
Elena is proficient in German, English and French.
Elena Engels is counsel at Geradin Partners. She is a dispute resolution lawyer specialising in competition litigation and damages claims and represents clients in high-stakes antitrust proceedings, with a particular focus on complex and cross-border litigation.
Beyond antitrust matters, her practice extends to commercial and post-M&A disputes, both before state and arbitral courts. She also advises clients on emerging areas of contentious work, including climate and ESG-related litigation.
Before joining Geradin Partners, Elena worked for Freshfields’ dispute resolution practice.
Elena is proficient in German, English and French.
Elena Engels is counsel at Geradin Partners. She is a dispute resolution lawyer specialising in competition litigation and damages claims and represents clients in high-stakes antitrust proceedings, with a particular focus on complex and cross-border litigation.
Beyond antitrust matters, her practice extends to commercial and post-M&A disputes, both before state and arbitral courts. She also advises clients on emerging areas of contentious work, including climate and ESG-related litigation.
Before joining Geradin Partners, Elena worked for Freshfields’ dispute resolution practice.
Elena is proficient in German, English and French.
- Defence of clients in major cartel damages litigation, including proceedings related to the railway, truck, drugstore and cable cartels (previous law firm)
- Representing a German automotive supplier in arbitration proceedings under the Swiss Rules of International Arbitration in connection with supply disputes (previous law firm)
- Acting in DIS arbitration proceedings concerning post-M&A liability claims (previous law firm)
- Advising and representing clients in relation to ESG liability and in climate-related disputes (previous law firm)
- Law studies at Universities of Düsseldorf and Cergy-Pontoise (France)
- First and second German state exams, French licence en droit
- Legal clerkship in Düsseldorf, Ankara and Bonn
Admitted to the German bar in 2018