Herbert Smith LLP

Kyriakos Fountoukakos is a partner in Herbert Smith’s Brussels office. Kyriakos is a competition law specialist and deals with all aspects of EU and UK competition law including merger control, acquisitions and hostile takeovers, joint ventures, cartels, antitrust investigations and advice, abuse of dominance issues and competition litigation. He has advised major international companies in a broad range of sectors including media, telecommunications, IT, energy, financial services and insurance, pharmaceuticals, consumer goods and manufacturing.

Kyriakos was formerly an EU official, having held positions as a European Commission official at DG Competition’s Merger Task Force and then as a referendaire in the cabinet of the president of the General Court of the EU.

Kyriakos is co-author of the mergers chapter in the current edition of the well-known textbook Faull & Nikpay: The EC Law of Competition; co-editor of Jones & Van der Woude’s EC Competition Law Handbook; and sits on the editorial advisory board of the CPI Antitrust Chronicle. Kyriakos is recognised as a leading competition practitioner in major legal directories including the Who’s Who of competition lawyers.

Kyriakos has studied law and European studies 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 has qualified as a Greek lawyer and as a solicitor in England and Wales. Kyriakos is fluent in English, Greek and French.