Kyriakos is the Managing Partner of Herbert Smith Freehills’ Brussels office and the Regional Head of Competition, Regulation and Trade, EMEA. He is a competition law specialist with more than two decades of experience practising competition law and deals with all aspects of EU and UK competition law including merger control, cartels, antitrust investigations and advice, and competition litigation before the EU courts. Kyriakos has advised clients in a broad range of industries including TMT, pharmaceuticals, energy and mining, financial services, consumer goods and transport. Kyriakos works closely with the Herbert Smith Freehills network to provide advice on multi-jurisdictional transactions and investigations. Kyriakos was formerly a European Commission official at DG Competition’s Merger Task Force and Referendaire (Legal Secretary) at the Cabinet of the then President of the EC Court of First Instance, Mr Bo Vesterdorf. Kyriakos is an officer (currently senior vice-chair) of the IBA’s antitrust committee. He is active in speaking and writing about competition law and is co-editor of the mergers chapter of Jones & Van der Woude’s EU Competition Law Handbook. Kyriakos has studied at the University of Athens (LLB), King’s College London (LLM), the University of Cambridge (MPhil in European studies) and Columbia Law School, New York (LLM). He is qualified as a Greek lawyer, as a solicitor in England and Wales and as a Belgian Advocaat. Kyriakos is fluent in English, Greek and French.
2023 Awards
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Competition Law and SustainabilitySusan Black, Marcel Nuys, Kyriakos Fountoukakos, Juliana Penz-Evren, Kristien Geeurickx, Florian Huerkamp, Camille Puech, André Pretorius, Jessica Fechner, Joseph Falcone, Jonathan Cross, Christopher Boyd, Adelaide Luke, Howard Chan, Joel Rheuben, Patrick Gay, Philip Aitken and Sarah Benbow, May 2022, Practical Law
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The EU Commission publishes the second annual report on the screening of foreign direct investment into the UnionConcurrences, Kyriakos Fountoukakos, Daniel Vowden, Daniel Barrio, The EU Commission publishes the second annual report on the screening of foreign direct investment into the Union, 1 September 2022, e-Competitions September 2022, Art. N° 108807
2021 Awards
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ECJ rules for the first time on "pay-for-delay" agreementsHerbert Smith Freehills Competition Notes Blog, Kyriakos Fountoukakos, Dafni Katrana and Ruth Allen, February 6, 2020
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Towards a higher standard of proof and a more interventionist judicial review in antitrust cases involving complex (economic) assessments following CK Telecoms?Journal of European Competition Law and Practice, October 2020, Volume 11, Issue 8
2020 Awards
Distinctions
Nominee, 2021 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic, Procedure
Nominee, 2021 Antitrust Writing Awards: Business, Intellectual Property
Nominee, 2020 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic, Unilateral Conduct
Nominee, 2019 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic, Unilateral Conduct
Nominee, 2018 Antitrust Writing Awards: Business, Mergers
Nominee, 2016 Antitrust Writing Awards: Business, Concerted Practices
Nominee, 2015 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic, Procedure
Nominee, 2014 Antitrust Writing Awards: Business, Mergers
Nominee, 2013 Antitrust Writing Awards: Business, General Antitrust
Nominee, 2012 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic, Mergers




