Robert Schulz

Head of Legal- Sales and Marketing at BSH Hausgeräte GmbH

Speaker

Dr. Robert Schulz is Head of Legal – Sales & Marketing, at BSH Hausgeräte GmbH, Munich, Germany (“BSH”). BSH is the largest home appliance manufacturer in Europe and one of the industry leaders worldwide, selling the complete portfolio of household appliances under the Bosch, Siemens, Gaggenau, Neff and Constructa brands. Robert joined BSH in May 2015. At BSH, Robert is responsible for legal and Compliance advice in the fields of Antitrust, White Collar Crime, Sales and Marketing.

Previously, Robert was Senior Counsel Competition at Siemens AG in Munich, Germany, where he advised on a full range of competition law matters. Before joining Siemens, Robert worked in private practice at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in Frankfurt, Brussels and Cologne (1999-2006).

Robert holds a PhD in law from Humboldt University, Berlin (2000), and completed his legal traineeship (“Referendariat”) at the State of Berlin (1996). Robert obtained a postgraduate degree in Law & Economics from the universities of Hamburg, Gent and Oxford (1994) and an undergraduate degree in Law from the Free University of Berlin (1993).

Robert is a co-founder and member of “Münchner Kartellrechtsforum”, a competition law interest group, and is a member of “Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht”. He is talking regularly and has published widely on competition law matters.

Since 2021, Robert has been teaching European Competition Law as an Assistant Lecturer (“Lehrbeauftragter”) at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich.