Dr. Werner Berg is a knowledge management counsel in the Brussels office of Latham & Watkins and a member of the Global Antitrust & Competition Practice.
Werner has extensive experience in all areas of competition law. He has been the lead competition lawyer in numerous high end merger cases including referrals to and from the European Commission, complex remedy issues, and second phase procedures at EU and German levels. He has successfully counselled and represented companies in abuse of dominance investigations, and has represented clients in litigation before the EU courts. He has also represented clients in numerous cartel investigations, as well as in arbitration matters related to competition law. Werner has worked with clients in consumer goods, life sciences and pharmaceuticals, aeronautics, banking, insurance, chemicals, energy, transport, media and telecommunications, and paper and basic industries.
Werner is a regular speaker at various conferences, notably and regularly at the Academy of European Law, and teaches competition law at the University of Trier. He was recommended as leading expert in EU and German competition law in several legal rankings. He has published more than 100 articles in leading law journals and contributes to four leading treatises on EU and competition law. He is the co-editor of the commentary Berg/Mäsch, Deutsches und Europäisches Kartellrecht (5th edition, 2025).
Prior to joining Latham, Werner was a competition partner in three leading international law firms for more than 20 years and headed the European competition law departments of two international law firms in Brussels for 12 years.