Kyriakos Fountoukakos 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.