Efficient, responsive and effective corporate counsel

Andre Fiebig is an experienced corporate lawyer who advises companies of all sizes – based in the U.S. and abroad – on a range of corporate, transactional, regulatory and other issues. With clients in the U.S. and Europe, Andre focuses on:

• Mergers & acquisitions
• Startups and venture capital
• Joint ventures
• Commercial law
• Antitrust and competition law
• Regulatory compliance, advice and training

Andre also serves as U.S. legal counsel assisting foreign companies doing business in the United States to effectively and efficiently resolve their legal and business issues by leveraging the knowledge of a team of approximately 550 attorneys at Quarles.

Andre’s clients know him to be highly responsive, delivering solutions to both strategic and day-to-day operational issues with equal skill. They know they can expect legal and business counsel that is transparent and practical – presenting options as well as recommendations – and that Andre works efficiently to advance their business objectives.

Andre is a dual citizen of Germany and the United States and is fluent in English and German. Prior to joining Quarles, he was a partner with firms in Chicago, Germany and Belgium.

Bar Admissions

• Illinois
• New York

Education

• Chicago-Kent College of Law - Illinois Institute of Technology (J.D., 1989)

• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (B.S., 1986)

• University of Tübingen (Doctor of Laws, magna cum laude, 1996)

• University of Tübingen (LL.M., magna cum laude, 1991)

• "A Role for the WTO in International Merger Control"
• "Analyzing Global Competition Law Dynamics"
• "Antitrust and American Business Abroad (4th Edition)"
• "Data Privacy: Implications for Global Employers of the E.U. Ruling Invalidating the Safe Harbor on E.U. U.S. Data Transfer"
• "Der Amerikanische Albtraum"
• "Does Your Company Meet Privacy Shield Protection Criteria?"
• "EU Business Law "
• "EU Reaches Agreement on Data Privacy: What Does It Mean For Your Business?"
• "EU Regulators Allow One-Year Test of Privacy Shield"
• "EU-U.S. Data Protection Treaty Could Open U.S. Courts to EU Litigants"
• "EU-U.S. Safe Harbor Invalidity Gives Renewed Interest in U.S. Legislation"
• "European Court of Justice Invalidates EU-U.S. Safe Harbor"
• "Franchisors and Multi-Unit Franchisees: Plan a Smart Exit Strategy"
• "How FCPA Applies To Foreign Private Companies"
• "IEL Commercial and Economic Law in the United States of America, 3rd Edition"
• "Import Commerce and the Foreign Trade Antitrust Improvements Act"
• "Judicial Redress Act of 2015 Presented to the President"
• "Legal Considerations: Export Regulations & Vehicles to Exporting"
• "Modernization of European Competition Law as a Form of Convergence"
• "New EU Privacy Shield Approved"
• "Private Enforcement of Antitrust Law in the United States of America"
• "Scrutiny of EU data-privacy safe harbor could pose problems for U.S."
• "The German Federal Cartel Office and the Application of Competition Law in Reunified Germany"
• "The Increasing Importance of EU Competition Law for U.S. Companies"
• "The Introduction of European Union Competition Law and Policy in the New Member States"
• "Trends in the International Business Landscape"
• "U.S. Jurisprudence Hurting U.S.-EU Data Privacy Relations"
• "United States of America"
• "US Courts Aren't Helping With EU Data Privacy Relations"
• Antitrust Considerations in Context of the Pandemic: Cooperation with Other Companies
• Book Review of "International Trade and U.S. Antitrust Law"
• EU-U.S. Data Protection Treaty Could Open U.S. Courts to EU Litigants
• Judicial Guidance on the Use of Framework Agreements and Blanket Purchase Orders
• Overview of the New Ownership Disclosure Rules: Will your Company have to Disclose the Owners?
• Preparing for the Corporate Transparency Act: What you should be doing now
• Relief from Section 301 Sanctions on Products from China

Seminar

• Franchisors and Multi-Unit Franchisees: Plan a Smart Exit Strategy
• Piercing the Corporate Veil: A European Perspective
• Trends in the International Business Landscape
• What Companies Need to Know: Prepare for the 1/1/24 U.S. Corporate Transparency Act