Björn Herbers advises on all aspects of European and German competition law. He has more than ten years of experience in complex proceedings before the European Commission and furthermore regularly represents clients before the German Federal Cartel Office in merger control and cartel proceedings, also advising them on multijurisdictional proceedings. Björn has special telecommunications sector know-how and has successfully represented clients in several headline cases His practice particularly focuses on competition law in the digital economy.

Björn joined CMS in 2009 and has been a partner within the CMS EU Law Office since 2017. In 2015, he was seconded to a leading competition economics consultancy firm.

After completing her law degrees in France and the United States, Elodie Vandenhende became a member of both the Paris and New York legal bars. She then began her career as a lawyer specializing in competition law at an international law firm.

In 2008, she took the role as advisor to the Secretary General of the French Presidency of the European Union after which she joined the cabinet of the Minister of Economy and Finance as advisor in charge of European affairs for three years. In 2012, she moved on within the Ministry of Finance to lead and win the first cases on behalf of the French government against some of the largest companies in the digital economy for unfair trading practices.

In July 2018, she was appointed strategic adviser of Madame Isabelle de Silva, President of the French Competition Authority, in order to reflect on the adaptation of the competition rules to the challenges of digital economy. In this capacity, she notably represented the Authority at France's New Digital Regulations Convention and in the working group set up by the government to work on regulation of digital platforms at the European level. Since September 2020, she has been a case handler at the newly created digital economy unit within the French Competition Autority.

Sebastian Wismer is Head of Unit “Digital Economy” (G6) which is part of the General Policy Division at the Bundeskartellamt, the German Competition Authority. Previously he worked as a Case Officer within the Policy Division, the Chief Economist’s Team and the Decision Division for telecommunication, IT and broadcasting media.

Sebastian studied economathematics at the University of Wuerzburg. He holds a Ph.D. in industrial organization.

Robert Stil studied Economics at the University of Amsterdam. Robert Stil held positions at the Competition Directorate of the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, the European Commission’s Merger Task Force, the Netherlands Competition Authority and the Independent Post and Telecommunications Authority (OPTA) in The Netherlands. Since the formation of the Authority for Consumers & Markets (ACM) in 2013 he has been working in the Office of the Chief Economist and the Digital Markets team of the Competition Directorate at ACM.