Francisco Enrique González-Díaz
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton (Brussels)
Partner
Francisco Enrique González-Díaz is a partner based in the Brussels office of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP. Mr. González-Díaz’s practice focuses on European and Spanish competition law, including mergers and acquisitions, restrictive practices, abuse of dominance and State aid. Mr. González-Díaz joined the firm in October 2003 as a partner. He has law degrees from the University of Granada, the Free University of Brussels and Harvard University as well as an economics degree from the Open University.Prior to joining the firm, Mr. González-Díaz held a number of positions within the European institutions. Between 1998 and 2003, he headed one of the enforcement units of the European Commission’s Merger Task Force and led the European Commission in its review of a number of large and complex cases in a wide array of market sectors. He also represented the European Commission in a number of important legislative projects relating to mergers and acquisitions and the application of Articles 81 and 82 EC. Between 1996 and 1998, Mr. González-Díaz clerked for Judge García Valdecasas at the European Court of First Instance in Luxembourg. From 1990 to 1996, Mr. González-Díaz was a member of the European Commission’s Legal Service. His responsibilities included providing legal advice to the European Commission, in particular to DG Competition, and representing the European Commission before the European Courts in Luxembourg in a significant number of cases on a wide range of issues arising under the EC Treaty.
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2033 Bulletin
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In a landmark decision announced on September 6, 2022 (“Decision”), the European Commission (“EC”) prohibited the acquisition by Illumina, a U.S. company specialising in genomic sequencing, of GRAIL, a U.S.- based start-up developing early cancer-detection tests (“Transaction”). The EC blocked the (...)
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In September 2020, Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager announced that from mid-2021 the European Commission (“EC”) would “start accepting referrals from national competition authorities of mergers that are worth reviewing at the EU level – whether or not those authorities had the power to (...)
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In a landmark Judgment delivered on May 28, the General Court overturned the European Commission’s 2016 prohibition of the Three/O2 UK mobile telecommunications merger. The Judgment raises the bar for the Commission in respect of (1) the legal standard the Commission must meet ; (2) the (...)
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In a landmark Judgment delivered on May 28, the General Court overturned the European Commission’s 2016 prohibition of the Three/O2 UK mobile telecommunications merger. The Judgment raises the bar for the Commission in respect of (1) the legal standard the Commission must meet ; (2) the (...)
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In three judgments delivered in December 2018 and January 2019, the Spanish Supreme Court confirmed the annulment of fines amounting to a total of €120 million imposed on the three main telecoms operators in Spain (i.e., Telefónica, Vodafone and Orange) for abuse of dominance in the wholesale (...)
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On May 18, 2017, the European Commission (the “Commission”) fined Facebook €110 million for providing incorrect or misleading information during its 2014 investigation of its acquisition of WhatsApp The magnitude of the fine dwarfs the few penalties the Commission has imposed in the past for (...)
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Cette rubrique Livres recense et commente les ouvrages et autres publications en droit de la concurrence, droit & économie de la concurrence et en droit de la régulation. Une telle recension ne peut par nature être exhaustive et se limite donc à présenter quelques publications récentes dans ces (...)
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Le contrôle juridictionnel que le juge de l’Union exerce sur les décisions de la Commission suscite une jurisprudence nourrie. Ce Tendances propose d’éclaircir les principales difficultés que la notion de “pleine juridiction” pose en droit de l’Union, au plan du standard de contrôle auquel sont soumises (...)
