Kyriakos Fountoukakos is the Global Head of Herbert Smith Freehills’ Competition, Regulation and Trade practice, as well as Brussels Office Managing Partner. He is widely recognised as a leading competition lawyer – ranked in the Who’s Who Legal Competition as a 'Global Elite Thought Leader' and in the other major directories – and has over 20 years of experience in competition law. Kyriakos specialises in all aspects of EU and UK competition law, including merger control, cartels, antitrust investigations and advice, distribution agreements, dominance, and competition litigation before the EU courts. He brings particular expertise through his former positions as a European Commission official at DG Competition's Merger Task Force (2001-2004) and as a Référendaire (legal assistant) in the cabinet of the President of the General Court of the EU (2004-2006). Kyriakos actively speaks and writes about competition law and lectures on merger control as part of the LLM programme at UCL. He is Senior Vice Chair of the IBA’s Antitrust Committee and regularly participates and presents at annual seminars around the world.