Miriam le Bell is Senior Counsel on the CHATHAM team, specialising in competition law and an experienced litigator. In addition to antitrust law, including energy antitrust law, she specialises in EU state aid law. In particular, as part of her focus on procedural issues and litigation, she regularly advises on data protection, IT and public procurement law issues.

She has gained expertise in numerous proceedings before authorities (in particular also before the German Federal Cartel Office the Federal Network Agency, and the EU Commission) and courts. Miriam also has many years of experience in compliance advice as well as from various contract negotiations and transactions. She specialises in infrastructure, energy and property projects, but also has a profound knowledge of other sectors, including the food, automotive and financial sectors.

Miriam joined the CHATHAM team in 2019. Before that, she worked as a lawyer in the Berlin and Hamburg offices of Freshfields, at Latham & Watkins and for several years in 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.

Her publications include, among others (all in German):

• 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, p. 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, p. 129-131
• Kartellrechtliche Compliance in: Compliance kompakt – Best Practice im Compliance-Management, 2018, p. 83-97
• Zivilprozessuale Durchsetzung kartellrechtlicher Ansprüche in: Kartellrecht und Fusionskontrolle, Euroforum 2010, Volume 10
• Die Reform des Zivilprozesses in Kartellsachen (together with Prof. Dr. Thomas Lübbig), WRP 2006, p. 1209-1216

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