Kyriakos is a partner in Herbert Smith Freehill’s EU Competition, Regulation and Trade group based in Brussels. He is a competition law specialist 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, energy and mining, financial services, pharmaceuticals, transport and consumer goods. 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 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 and as a solicitor in England and Wales. Kyriakos is fluent in English, Greek and French.
Distinctions
Nominee, 2019 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic, Unilateral Conduct
Nominee, 2018 Antitrust Writing Awards: Business, Mergers
Nominee, 2016 Antitrust Writing Awards: Business, Concerted Practices
Nominee, 2015 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic, Procedure
Nominee, 2014 Antitrust Writing Awards: Business, Mergers
Nominee, 2013 Antitrust Writing Awards: Business, General Antitrust
Nominee, 2012 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic, Mergers
