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Dr. Felix Boos, LLM

Boos_Felix

Dr. Felix Boos, LLM

Senior Associate

Berlin + 49 30 20 22 64 30

Felix Boos is a senior associate in the Government and Regulatory Affairs department with a focus on EU regulatory law and litigation before the European Union Courts, in particular data privacy and platform regulation. He regularly advises tech companies in high-stakes regulatory litigation under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Felix also represents clients before the German courts, primarily in antitrust litigation and class actions. 

Felix has extensive experience in litigating cases for international clients before the EU’s General Court and Court of Justice, as well as in administrative proceedings before EU agencies. Recent work includes comprehensive guidance for a financial institution in an administrative appeal against the European Central Bank under the Single Supervisory Mechanism. 

Having previously served as a law clerk in the chambers of Judge Gaja at the International Court of Justice (The Hague), Felix also advises clients and public institutions on public international law, with recent matters including advising an intergovernmental organization on the interplay between EU sanctions law and immunities under international law. 

Professional Activities and Education

Felix is a member of the Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht (German Antitrust Lawyers’ Association) and has served as an adjunct lecturer in European competition law at the law school of the European University in Frankfurt (Oder).

Felix received his LL.M. at New York University School of Law as a Hauser Global Scholar, Fulbright Scholar and ERP Scholar of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation). Prior to these studies, Felix studied law at the Universities of Heidelberg and Ottawa. During his legal traineeship, Felix gained experience at the German Federal Chancellery, working in the international development unit.

Experience

    • Advising a global tech company in the comprehensive defense of a subscription-based business model under the GDPR, both before the European Union Courts against an EU privacy regulator, and in an action brought by a consumer organization before the German courts, including on issues relating to corporate fundamental rights under the EU Charter of Fundamental rights and the European Convention on Human Rights. 
    • Advising Germany’s leading infrastructure and mobility services company in referral proceedings before the Court of Justice against a competitor’s procurement complaint, raising novel issues at the intersection of the EU’s green transition and EU procurement law.
    • Representing an EU financial regulatory agency in multiple challenges before the General Court of the EU under the EU’s reformed insurance system, raising issues of first impression under EU administrative law.
    • Representing Deutsche Bahn in litigation before the Frankfurt Higher Regional Court against major European steel producers concerning damages claims from the rail track cartel. This is one of the largest and most complex cartel damages cases in the history of Germany.

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Credentials

  • Education

    • Second State Exam, Berlin Court of Appeals, 2022

    • LLM, New York University School of Law, 2019

      Hauser Global Scholar, Fulbright Scholar, ERP Scholar of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation

    • First State Exam, Universität Heidelberg, 2016

    • University of Ottawa, 2013–2014

  • Admissions

    • Berlin

  • Clerkships

    • H.E. Judge Giorgio Gaja, International Court of Justice, 2019 - 2020

Credentials

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