Portrait of Dr Philipp Schliffke

Dr Philipp Schliffke Partner
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Dr Philipp Schliffke is a partner at Oxera. He has more than twelve years of consulting experience in the areas of damages estimation, mergers, state aid and abuse of market power. Philipp represents his clients before competition authorities as well as in judicial and out-of-court disputes. He has extensive experience in the application of empirical analyses, is co-author of the Handbook on Distribution Antitrust Law edited by Bauer, Rahlmeyer and Schöner, and publishes on the topics of competition economics and damages estimation. Lexology ranks him as a Thought Leader for Germany and, according to Juve, he is one of the 20 most recommended economics consultants in Germany. His clients high-light his ’excellent economic expertise’, his ’brilliant understanding of the market’ and his ’extreme solution orientation’. Before joining Oxera, Philipp ran his own competition economics consulting firm for five years.

Philipp speaks German, and English.

Tel: +49 4022 898907

Philipp's specialisms include:

Selected
professional experience

  • Advising a German chemical company in connection with the defence against claims arising from the ethylene cartel (2023– )

  • Advising Landwärme GmbH in connection with state aid proceedings before the European Commission (2024– )

  • Advising Vossloh AG and Moravia Steel in connection with the defence of claims arising from the rail tracks cartel (2014– )

  • Advising a German bank in connection with the defence of claims aris-ing from the Mastercard II decision (2022– )

  • Advising a supplier of agricultural intermediate products in connection with a defence against claims arising from the plant protection cartel (2022– )

  • Advising a shipbuilding company in connection with the enforcement of claims arising from a refusal of market access (2020– )

Selected
publications

  • Schliffke, P. (2024), Cartel Damages Without Economic Experts? The Implications of the German Federal Supreme Court Decisions Trucks III & IV, Kluwer Competition Law Blog, 1 November 2024.

  • Schliffke, P. (2024), On the (Im)possibility of an economic defense against the „whether“ of cartel damage according to Truck III, Wirtschaft und Wettbewerb, 2024:5, 255–62.

  • Hancher, L., Robins, N. and Schliffke, P. (2024), The Cumulation of State Aid Granted by Different Member States — The Landwärme Case, Guest State Aid Blog, Lexxion.

  • Schliffke, P. (2024), Vertical Restrictions from an Economic Perspective, in M. Bauer, D. Rahlmeyer and M. Schöner (eds), Handbook of Distribu-tion Cartel Law, Second edition, C.H. Beck.

  • Hellmann, H.J. and Schliffke, P. (2022), Limits of the power of estima-tion under Section 287 of the Code of Civil Procedure in the Face of Economic Experience Sentences, Wirtschaft und Wettbewerb, 2022:2, 83–89.

  • Frank, N. and Schliffke, P. (2014), ‚The post-cartel equilibrium puzzle in the German cement market: A reply to Hüschelrath, Müller, and Veith‘, Journal of Competition Law and Economics, 9:2, 495–509.

Qualifications

  • Dr. rer. pol. in Economics, University of Hamburg, Germany

  • Diploma in Economics, University of Hamburg, Germany

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