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Experience:
Andres Font Galarza is an antitrust and competition lawyer who works on matters relating to mergers, joint ventures, and cartels, and who also provides strategic and policy advice to clients in related regulatory matters. He is a former senior official of the European Commission's Directorate General for Competition, where he spent 13 years, including three as Deputy Head of the Unit that was in charge of enforcing EC Competition law in the sector of consumer goods and foodstuffs, with a particular enforcement focus on cartels and analysis of unilateral conduct by companies with market power. In addition, he has more than four years government experience in seminal ICT cases (media and music publishing, information industries, consumer electronics, software...) involving complex regulatory issues.
Andres is a regular lecturer on antitrust and competition matters in many fora, and, from 2004-2006, was a visiting lecturer at the Escuela Iberoamericana del Tribunal de Defensa de la Competencia (Spain). He is fluent in English, French, Spanish, and has some knowledge of Italian and Portuguese.
Notable Engagements:
Antitrust cases:
EBU (81/82 on EU and world-wide TV rights).
Audiovisual Sport (81/82 on Spanish sport rights involving Telefónica, Canal +).
BT/ BSkyB /Matushita/Open Digital Platform (81/82).
Microsoft, IP, interoperability (82).
Elevators (cartel).
Merger cases
Warner Bros/Lusomundo/Sogecable (Film distribution).
Cablevisión (Spain, digital TV).
Microsoft/Liberty Media/Telewest (Software/Digital decoders for broadband cable).
Experience dealing with the emerging Chinese Competition authorities
Drafted the MoU, which opened the EU-China dialogue on the matter.
Worked on Chinese translation of "Merger Control in the EU" which includes a chapter on PRC competition rules (2008).
Education:
College of Europe, Bruges, LLM, 1991, University of Valencia, Degree in Law, 1986. | 