DR. MELANIE
VON DEWALL

ASSOCIATE

Dr. Melanie von Dewall advises companies on all matters relating to German and European competition law and foreign trade law, with particular focus on merger control and foreign direct investment control.

Melanie provides guidance to companies on transactions and has considerable experience in advising on all aspects of foreign direct investment control, including the coordination of multinational filing requirements. She advises clients on cross-sector and sector-specific investment review procedures by the German Federal Ministry for Economics and Climate Action and merger control matters before the European Commission and the German Federal Cartel Office.

Melanie is a member is a member of the German Competition Law Association (Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht), the Competition Law Forum Munich (Kartellrechtsforum München) and of the Investment Control Forum (Forum Investitionsprüfung e.V.).

Melanie has professional proficiency in the languages of German and English.

Melanie studied law and European law at the Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg. Doctor of Laws in competition. From 2016 to 2019, she worked as a lawyer in the competition law department at PWC Legal AG. In the years 2019 to 2024, Melanie worked as an associate in investment control law at Taylor Wessing Partnerschaftsgesellschaft mbB. Melanie joined BUNTSCHECK in 2024.

melanie.vondewall@buntscheck.com

PUBLICATIONS

GERMANY: FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT REGIMES 2025, IN:

ICLG International Comparative Legal Guide (together with M. Buntscheck, T. Mühlbach and A. Boos)

KONZERNHAFTUNG BEI KARTELLRECHTSVERSTÖẞEN – HAFTET EINE MUTTERGESELLSCHAFT AUCH ZIVILRECHTLICH FÜR IHRE TÖCHTER?

Nomos, 2017