Chief Counsel Competition, Regulatory & Services at Siemens
Georg Boettcher is Chief Counsel Competition & Regulatory at Siemens. In this function he is responsible for all antitrust matters worldwide covering merger control, advice on competition law issues and a state-of-the-art antitrust compliance program. In addition, he is also responsible for all foreign direct investment and foreign subsidies regulation filings.
In addition, Georg holds various advisor positions (NGA to the ICN appointed by the German Federal Cartel Office, senior advisor of BIAC Competition Committee, Co-Chair of the ICC Competition Policy Task Force for Digital Economy, Board member of the Competition Committee of the Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie, Member of the Competition Law Working Group of the European Round Table for Industry) and speaks regularly at antitrust conferences.
Georg joined Siemens in 2005 as an antitrust lawyer and since then held various positions within the Siemens Legal department. From 2015-2018 he was the General Counsel for Latin America and was based in Bogota, Colombia.
Before joining Siemens, Georg worked as an attorney in private practice for several years. He studied law at the universities of Hamburg, Bilbao and Munich and received his PhD in Competition Law from the Max-Planck-Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law in Munich.