Alfredo is the Head of Competition Law at KPMG in Madrid. He previously worked as a Senior Associate at Hogan Lovell’s Madrid Antitrust, Competition and Economic Regulation practice in Madrid. He has broad experience in multi-jurisdictional merger control and filings before the European Commission and the Spanish Competition Authority. Prior to joining Hogan Lovells, Alfredo was an associate at Allen & Overy, and a Bluebook Trainee in the Directorate General for Competition of the European Commission in Brussels, where he was involved in the assessment of State aids under EU law. Alfredo holds a LLM in Competition Law (Distinction) from King’s College London. Alfredo speaks Spanish, English, French and Italian.
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The Spanish government last week approved a new reform of the legal regime that establishes a screening regime for certain foreign direct investments ("FDI") in Spain, (the "Reform"), through the enactment of Royal Decree-Law 34/2020, of 17 November, on urgent measures to support business (...)
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The Spanish government last week approved a new reform of the legal regime that establishes a screening regime for certain foreign direct investments ("FDI") in Spain, (the "Reform"), through the enactment of Royal Decree-Law 34/2020, of 17 November, on urgent measures to support business (...)
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The Spanish Competition Authority (Comisión Nacional de la Competencia, the CNC) put an end to the infringement proceedings S/354/11 Oracle (the Decision). These infringement proceedings were formally opened pursuant to a complaint by a competitor which considered that Oracle had committed an (...)
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State Aid : Main developments between 1 September and 31 December 2010* On 14 December 2010 the Commission authorised € 15.5 million of regional investment aid for the German company Sovello AG for the production of solar modules in Bitterfeld Wolfen (Thalheim, Sachsen Anhalt), Germany. (...)
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State Aid : Main developments between 1 September and 31 December 2010* On 14 December 2010 the Commission authorised the support that Sweden intends to grant to the Gothenburg Biofuels Gasification (GoBiGas) research and development (R&D) project to develop a pre commercial (...)
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State Aid : Main developments between 1 September and 31 December 2010* On 14 December 2010 the Commission adopted a negative decision with recovery on the Centre d’Exportation du Livre Français (CELF). The CELF case dates back to the beginning of the 90’s with the lodging of a complaint (...)
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State Aid : Main developments between 1 September and 31 December 2010* Following a public consultation on the State aid temporary rules established in response to the economic and financial crisis, the Commission believes there are still grounds for considering that the requirements for the (...)
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State Aid : Main developments between 1 September and 31 December 2010* On 30 September 2010 and on 24 November 2010 the Commission decided to refer Spain to the Court of Justice for failing to implement a previous Court ruling which confirmed certain Commission decisions finding that (...)
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State Aid : Main developments between 1 September and 31 December 2010* On 17 November 2010 the Commission approved a € 7 million aid scheme supporting parallel analogue and digital broadcasting during the transition to digital TV in Slovakia . Under this scheme broadcasters and network (...)
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State Aid : Main developments between 1 September and 31 December 2010* On 15 November 2010 the Commission authorised a short term € 52 million State loan to tackle liquidity problems at Air Malta. The Maltese authorities had notified emergency support to prevent the collapse of Air Malta. (...)
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State Aid : Main developments between 1 September and 31 December 2010* On 8 November 2010 the Commission authorised aid for the restructuring of CajaSur. CajaSur provided retail banking services, mostly in the region of Andalucía, and came into financial difficulties as a result of its (...)
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State Aid : Main developments between 1 September and 31 December 2010* On 5 November 2010 the Commission extended its ongoing State aid investigation into WestLB after reaching the conclusion that the bank had received an estimated Eur. 3.4 billion in State subsidies more than it was (...)
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State Aid : Main developments between 1 September and 31 December 2010* On 28 October 2010 the Commission decided to refer Italy to the Court of Justice for failing to implement a previous Court ruling decision ordering the recovery of illegal and incompatible State aid from utilities with a (...)
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State Aid : Main developments between 1 September and 31 December 2010* On 27 October the Commission concluded that part of the State support granted in 2009 to fertiliser producer Péti Nitrogenmuvek infringed EU State aid rules. In January 2009 Hungary issued guarantees in favour of (...)
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State Aid : Main developments between 1 September and 31 December 2010* By its decision of 27 October 2010 the Commission authorised The Netherlands to provide a € 150 million grant for a CO2 capture and storage (CCS) demonstration project to a joint venture between E.ON and GDF Suez. The (...)
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State Aid : Main developments between 1 September and 31 December 2010* On 25 October 2010 the Commission approved the Danish Government’s measures for the liquidation of Fionia Bank. Fionia Bank was a regional, full service bank based on the island of Funen and neighbouring islands in (...)
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State Aid : Main developments between 1 September and 31 December 2010* On 12 October 2010 the Commission approved a French scheme that subsidises legal downloads of music by French residents aged from 12 to 25 years. France proposed the creation of a Carte musique for young Internet users (...)
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State Aid : Main developments between 1 September and 31 December 2010* On 29 September 2010 the Commission authorised the compensation which Spain intends to grant to electricity generators to meet the costs of fulfilling a public service obligation, namely producing specific volumes of (...)
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State Aid : Main developments between 1 September and 31 December 2010* On 29 September 2010 the Commission decided that financial support of CZK 250 million (Eur. 10 million) for the reconstruction of a cableway on Mount Sněžka did not constitute State aid. The support will be granted to (...)
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State Aid : Main developments between 1 September and 31 December 2010* On 29 September 2010 the Commission authorised The Netherlands to grant € 15.6 million of soft loans and a direct grant of € 5.7 million to Mapper Lithography B.V. for the development of ‘E beam lithography’. Mapper is (...)
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State Aid : Main developments between 1 September and 31 December 2010* On 15 September 2010 the Commission approved a thorough restructuring of Parex, Latvia’s second biggest bank before the crisis. The bank, which was partly nationalised in November 2008, benefited from State aid for a (...)
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State Aid : Main developments between 1 September and 31 December 2010* On 15 September 2010 the Commission decided that the regional investment aid of € 19.5 million that Italy intended to grant towards the takeover and conversion, by Fri el Acerra S.r.l, of a closed thermoelectric power (...)
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State Aid : Main developments between 1 September and 31 December 2010* Another measure supporting the purchase of digital television terminal equipment for socially vulnerable groups in Slovakia was approved by the Commission on 15 September 2010. The aim is to bring digital television (...)
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State Aid : Main developments between 1 September and 31 December 2010* On 3 September 2010 the Commission authorised a scheme for the recapitalisation of credit institutions in Greece by the Hellenic Financial Stability Fund (FSF). Its capital, which amounts to € 10 billion, stems from (...)
