Kyriakos Fountoukakos

Practice Areas

- Competition, Regulation and Trade

- Merger Control

- Antitrust

- Competition Litigation

- Foreign Direct Investment

Career

Kyriakos is the Managing Partner of Competition, Regulation, and Trade, based in our Brussels office. Kyriakos deals with all aspects of European Union and United Kingdom competition law. Kyriakos has more than two decades of experience in competition law. He 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 TMT, pharma, energy and mining, consumer products, financial services and insurance, manufacturing, rail, and air transport 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. Kyriakos works closely with the firm's network to provide advice on multi-jurisdictional transactions and investigations. He is particularly active in advising clients in Japan and manages the firm's cross-border Japan competition practice.

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