Andrés Font Galarza is a Spanish qualified partner and a member of the Brussels Bar, based in the Brussels office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Mr. Galarza’s practice encompasses antitrust issues relating to mergers, joint ventures, distribution issues (especially relating to online commerce), IP, the abuse of dominance and cartels. In addition, he provides strategic and policy advice to clients in regulatory matters affecting sectors such as the Internet, consumer goods brands, pharmaceuticals, health and food, energy and the EU internal market freedoms. He has significant experience in dealing with European privacy issues, in particular those raised by the digital economy. Mr. Galarza is featured as a leading lawyer for Competition/European Law in the 2011 editions of both Chambers Global and Chambers Europe, in which he is described as “a strong asset to the practice”. He regularly lectures on antitrust and competition matters and has numerous publications with editions in several languages (including English, Spanish and Chinese, amongst others) through the Oxford University Press and Law Press China. Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Mr. Galarza spent 15 years as a senior official of the European Commission, of which he worked for 13 years at the Directorate General for Competition in charge of important cases, particularly in the ICT and consumer goods sectors.
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This article has been nominated for the 2015 Antitrust Writing Awards. Click here to learn more about the Antitrust Writing Awards. I. Introduction Selective distribution has solidly established itself among the distribution modalities legally available to both suppliers and buyers under (...)
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An impartial commentator cannot but be surprised that, 45 years after the Consten and Grunding ruling in the E.U., 34 years after the Sylvania ruling in the U.S. and one year after the last reform undertaken by the European Commission (the "Commission") in this area, exclusive agreements (...)
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"Cartel fined in the elevators and escalators sector"* On 21 February 2007 the Commission adopted a prohibition decision and imposed fines totalling €992 million on the Otis, KONE, Schindler and ThyssenKrupp groups for operating cartels for the sale, installation, maintenance and modernisation (...)
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"EU-China dialogue on Competition formalised with the signature of Terms of Reference on May 6 2004"* The European Commission and the Chinese Government signed on May 6 an agreement on a structured dialogue on Competition. This is the first such competition dialogue embarked on by China and it (...)
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"The commission’s assessment of the Eurovision system pursuant to article 81 EC"* I INTRODUCTION The Commission exempted on 10 May 2000 the Eurovision system from 1993 until 2005. This is a new significant episode in the long and complicated history of the Commission’s assessment of the (...)
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THE COMMISSION’S ASSESSMENT OF THE EUROVISION SYSTEM PURSUANT TO ARTICLE 81 EC * I – INTRODUCTION The Commission exempted on 10 May 2000 the Eurovision system from 1993 until 2005. This is a new significant episode in the long and complicated history of the Commission’s assessment of the (...)
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"The British Interactive Broadcasting Decision and the application of competition rules to the new digital interactive television services"* I. Introduction The Commission exempted on 15 September 1999 pursuant to Article 81 (3) of the EC Treaty the creation of a joint venture company, (...)
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This section selects books on themes related to competition laws and economics. This compilation does not attempt to be exhaustive but rather a survey of themes important in the area. The survey usually covers publication over the last three months after publication of the latest issue of (...)
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