Michael Saller

Prof. Dr. Michael Saller, M.Jur. (Oxford) is special counsel for antitrust and competition law at Schalast's Frankfurt office. He advises in all areas of German and European antitrust law as well as in matters of intellectual property rights. He is a full professor of commercial law at the Ernst Abbe University of Applied Science in Jena and a lecturer at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management. Michael Saller is not admitted to the bar. As special counsel he advises Schalast internally and does not advise clients directly.

Michael Saller studied law at the Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) in Munich. He then graduated from the University of Oxford with a Master of European and Comparative Law (M.Jur.) and received his doctorate with a thesis on antitrust law on the subject of "Merger Control in Pay-TV Stations" as a scholarship holder of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition Munich to obtain a Doctor of Law (Dr. jur.) at the Chair of Business Law under Prof. Dr. Theo Bodewig, LMU Munich.

Before becoming Professor of Business Law, Michael Saller worked as Senior Expert and Team Leader in the Competition Division of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) (2015-2020) and as Assessor at the Federal Cartel Office in Bonn (2009-2015). He was also a lawyer with the law firms Latham & Watkins and Shearman & Sterling (2005-2009) and a consultant with the Boston Consulting Group (2003-2005).