Fernando Castillo de la Torre

Director - Principal Legal Adviser, Legal Service, Competition and Mergers Team at European Commission

Speaker

Fernando Castillo de la Torre is Director (Principal Legal Adviser) in the Legal Service of the European Commission, where he now leads the team for competition and mergers. He has been working in the Legal Service since 1996 in the teams for internal market, competition, external relations, and agriculture, fisheries and animal and plant health. He studied both law and political science in Madrid (Spain), graduating in 1989 and 1990 respectively, and undertook postgraduate studies in EU law at the College of Europe in Bruges (Belgium). He worked in the chambers of the President of the European Court of Justice between 1997 and 2002. He has been agent for the European Commission in more than 450 cases in the European Court of Justice, some 300 of which in competition matters (mergers and antitrust) and has pleaded in many of the most important competition cases over the last 23 years. He has published widely on the relationship between legal orders (international, EU and national), judicial review and litigation before EU Courts, competition law, the internal market and the external relations of the EU.