Miriam le Bell is Senior Counsel at CHATHAM, specialising in competition and EU law and an experienced litigator.

In addition to competition law, including energy antitrust law and merger control, she specialises in EU state aid and public procurement law. In particular, as part of her focus on procedural issues and litigation, she regularly advises on data protection, IT, and general EU law issues.

She has gained her expertise from numerous proceedings before authorities – in particular before the German Federal Cartel Office, the Federal Network Agency, and the EU Commission – and courts, the latter in civil proceedings, antitrust/competition and other administrative proceedings, EU court and arbitration proceedings.

In addition, she has many years of experience in compliance advice and in a wide range of contract negotiations and transactions. She focuses in particular on CHATHAM's core sectors of infrastructure, energy, and real estate, but also has extensive industry knowledge in areas such as food, automotive, and finance.

Miriam joined the CHATHAM team in 2019. Starting in 2005, she initially worked as a lawyer at Freshfields in Berlin and Hamburg, at Latham & Watkins and them for several years at smaller law firms in Hamburg. She studied in Hamburg (law and journalism) and Amsterdam (LL.M.) and is a member of the Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht e.V. and davit, the IT law working group of the German Bar Association. The Handelsblatt lists her in the “Competition/Antitrust Law” section under “Best Lawyers in Germany” and received the “Linklaters Award 2004” during her LL.M-studies.

Her publications include, among others:

• Die geplante Stiftung Generationenkapital zur langfristigen Rentenniveausicherung – rechtliche Herausforderungen bei der kapitalgedeckten Finanzierung hoheitlicher ihr übertragener Aufgaben (together with Dr. Michael Dettmeier und Dr. Christos Paraschiakos), in: FR 2024, pp. 849-861
• Beihilfen im Sektor Seeverkehr und Beihilfen für Seehäfen (together with Dr. Marco Núñez Müller) – Beihilferechtliche Kommentierungen im Münchener Kommentar zum Wettbewerbsrecht, Volume 5: Beihilfenrecht, 4th edition 2022,
• Politisch aufgeladene Großprojekte – Vergabe- und unionsrechtliche Implikationen am Beispiel der Pkw-Maut (together with Dr. Christos Paraschiakos und Dr. Sven-Hendrik Schulze), in: IR 2020, pp. 129-131
• Kartellrechtliche Compliance in: Compliance kompakt – Best Practice im Compliance-Management, 2018, pp. 83-97
• Zivilprozessuale Durchsetzung kartellrechtlicher Ansprüche in: Kartellrecht und Fusionskontrolle, Euroforum 2010, Volume 10
• Transparency Rules: Primacy of effective leniency and settlement programmes over private antitrust enforcement in the EU? (together with Eckart Wagner), Global Competition Litigation Review 2010, pp. 124-128
• Die Reform des Zivilprozesses in Kartellsachen (together with Prof. Dr. Thomas Lübbig), WRP 2006, pp. 1209-1216

Please do not hesitate to ask us for Miriam’s references.