Kyriakos Fountoukakos

Partner at Herbert Smith Freehills

Speaker

Kyriakos was formerly a European Commission official at the Directorate General for Competition’s Merger Task Force and a Référendaire (legal assistant) in the cabinet of the President of the General Court of the EU. Kyriakos’s clients value his understanding of economic issues, and his insider knowledge gained at the European Commission and at the General Court.

Kyriakos advises international clients in sectors including consumer products, energy, financial services and insurance, manufacturing, media, rail and air transport, telecommunications and information technology, and pharmaceuticals on a range of areas including merger control (mergers and acquisitions, and joint ventures), cartels, antitrust investigations and advice, distribution agreements, dominance, and competition litigation before the EU courts.

He is acknowledged as a leading competition law expert in major legal directories including Chambers and Partners and the International Who’s Who of Competition Lawyers and Economists. Kyriakos is fluent in English, Greek and French.