Christoph Arhold

Christoph Arhold's main practice areas are German and European competition law, including mergers, cartels and—in particular—State aid. He also has substantial experience in other fields of European Community law, such as the fundamental freedoms of the Common Market and trade law.

Christoph Arhold has advised German and international clients in various industries, including glass, chemicals, transport and financial services. He also represents the German Government in cases before the highest national administrative courts and the European Court of Justice (ECJ). He has significant know-how in representing clients in State aid cases before both the European Commission and the European Community Courts. He obtained the first ever suspension order in a State aid case before the Community Courts in the landmark TGI case. In another landmark case, he achieved the first ever judgment of the European Courts confirming the right to access to documents in State aid procedures.

He is recognized as highly recommended lawyer in the directories JUVE and Handelsblatt in 2020.

Christoph Arhold regularly publishes and speaks on State aid and other EC law topics (see list below), and is also visiting lecturer for EC State aid law at the Europa-Institut of the University of Saarland.

Before joining White & Case, Christoph Arhold worked as an assistant to Prof. Dr. Torsten Stein, University of Saarland (Germany), as an assistant to a member of the European Parliament and, as part of his legal training, in the cabinet of Prof. Dr. Günter Hirsch, a former judge at the ECJ.