ALFONSO LAMADRID DE PABLO PROFESIONAL EXPERIENCE Principal associate, EU & Competition Law, Garrigues, Brussels January 2016- present Associate/Senior associate, EU & Competition Law, Garrigues, Brussels 2007-2009/ 2010-2015 Intern, EU & Competition Law, Garrigues, Madrid May 2004-2006 ACADEMIC BACKGROUND LL.M. Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, United States 2009-2010 Doctoral courses ( DEA ) in European Law, Universidad Complutense, Madrid 2010 LL.M. European Legal Studies, College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium 2006-2007 Diploma of Expertise in EU and Spanish Competition Law Instituto de Estudios Bursátiles, Madrid. 2006 Law Degree with Special Diploma in EU Law (Premio Extraordinario/ Valedictorian) Universidad San Pablo-CEU, Madrid. 2001-2006 ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES, SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS AND PUBLICATIONS Academic activities and speaking engagements: Co-director of the Annual Postgraduate Courses on EU and Spanish Competition Law, Instituto de Estudios Bursátiles, Madrid. Editions XI (2008), XII (2009), XIII (2010), XIV (2011), XV (2012), XVI (2013), XVII (2014), XVIII (2015), XIX (2016) and XX (2017) Visiting lecturer on EU Competition Procedure at the Brussels School of Competition (2011/2012, 2012/2013, 2013/2014, 2014/2015, 2015/2016 and 2016/2017editions). Visiting lecturer on EU Competition Procedure at the College of Europe s Summer Courses (EU Competition Law - A professional guide to EU Competition Law), July 2014, July 2015, July 2016. Visiting lecturer on EU Competition Procedure and Article 106 TFEU (Special and Exclusive Rights) at the College of Europe s Competition Summer School for Chinese officials, July 2014, July 2015, July 2016. Visiting lecturer on EU Competition Law at the LL.M in International Transactions, Centro de Estudios Garrigues-Fordham University, 2016/2017. Co-Director of the Chillin Competition Conference- Neutrality Everywhere?, Brussels, 21 November 2016.
Speaker at itech Law s European Conference ( European Digital Single Market and Geo-Blocking ), Madrid, 10 November 2016. Speaker at Lexxion s Seminar on State aid and tax measures ( Exceptions with General Application? The Spanish Goodwill and Tax Lease Cases ), Brussels, 8 November 2016. Speaker at the University of Leeds Conference Competition and Regulation in Digital Markets, Leeds, 9 September 2016. Speaker at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel Symposium Online platforms, Big Data and privacy: What role for competition policy?, Brussels, 23 June 2016. Speaker at the conference Arbitraje y mediación en el sector de las TIC, Estándares de Patentes (SEP) y licencias FRAND, World Intellectual Property Organization and Garrigues, Madrid, 9 June 2016. Lecturer in the programme Derecho de la competencia y propiedad intelectual, Sergio Arboleda University of Colombia, Madrid 14 March 2016. Speaker at the IEB Seminar Recent developments in Article 101 TFEU ( Single and continuous infringement in EU and Spanish Competition Law ), Madrid, 29 January 2016. Speaker at the European Internet Foundation s dinner-debate on Regulation of Digital Platforms, European Parliament, Brussels, 26 January 2016. Visiting Lecturer at the London School of Economics, Cartels in EU Competition Law, London, 12 January 2016. Director of The Chilling Competition Conference, Brussels, 19 November 2015. Speaker at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) conference What is a platform and should they be regulated?, Brussels, 17 November 2015. Speaker at the conference Nuevas tecnologías y la revolución jurídica- Reformas normativas para la economía digital, organized by the Asociación para el Progreso de la Dirección and Garrigues, Madrid 4 November 2015. Speaker at the conference La Lucha contra los Cárteles en la Comunidad Iberoamericana, organized by Universidad San Pablo-CEU and the Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia, Madrid, 5-6 October 2015. Chair and speaker at ERA s (Academy of European Law) workshop on Competition Rebooted: Enforcement and Personal Data in Digital Markets, Brussels, 24 September 2015. Speaker at the conference Comercio electrónico, Derecho de la competencia y Mercado único digital, Asociación Española de la Economía Digital, Madrid 13 July 2015. Guest Lawyer at the Annual Conference of the European Association of Competition Law Judges ( Competition Law in Multi-Sided Markets ), Uppsala, 5 June 2015. Chair and speaker at ERA s (Academy of European Law) workshop on Competition Law in Banking and Financial Services, 3 June 2015.
Lecturer in the programme Derecho de la competencia y propiedad intelectual, Sergio Arboleda University of Colombia, Madrid 19 May 2015. Speaker at the IEB s Seminar Competition Law and Technology, Madrid, 13 March 2015. Speaker at the IEB Seminar Recent developments in Article 101 TFEU ( Some additional reflections on the Cartes Bancaires Judgment, Madrid, 30 January 2015. Speaker at the Swedish Competition Authority s conference The Pros and Cons of Two-Sided Markets ( The Double Duality of Two-Sided Markets ), Stockholm, 28 November 2014. Speaker at the Brussels Technology Days Conference on Competition Law in the Technology Sector ( The Google Android Investigation ), Brussels, 15 October 2014. Speaker at the Brussels School of Competition and Liège Competition and Innovation s Annual Competition Conference, Commitments in EU Competition Policy, Overview of the cases dealt with under Article 9 of Regulation 1/2003, 5 June 2014. Speaker at the European Data Protection Supervisor s Workshop on Privacy, Consumers, Competition and Big Data, European Parliament, Brussels, 2 June, 2014. Chairman at ERA s (Academy of European Law) workshop on Two-sided markets in Mergers and Abuse of Dominance cases, Brussels, 3 April 2014. Member of the Scientific Committee and Panel moderator ( Interoperability and Competition Law ) at AIJA s conference Antitrust 2.0 Competition Law and Technology, Bruges, 7-8 February 2014. Speaker at ERA s (Academy of European Law) conference on Legal Challenges to Payment services in the single market ( Interoperability in mobile payments ), Brussels, 10 October 2013. Speaker at the Global Competition Law Center s 63 rd Lunch Talk on Search Engines and Competition Law, Brussels, 8 February 2013. Lecturer at ERA s (Academy of European Law) summer course on European Intellectual Property Law ( Intellectual Property and Competition Law: Article 101 TFEU ), Trier, 4 July 2013. Keynote Speaker, International Symposium on Competition Policy, Centre for Parliamentary Studies, 8 December 2011, Brussels. Topic: The future of EU Competition Law. Guest speaker at the European University Institute seminar on What is happening to Article 101 TFEU?, Fiesole, 6 December 2011. Speaker at Olympics-Competition-Sports-Law: competition and sports law issues of today s sport, Hungarian Olympic Committee, Budapest, 29-30 September 2011. Lecturer on State aid and Merger Control at Garrigues Annual Postgraduate Course on Business Law, Sevilla and Bilbao, September-October 2011. Speaker at the Seminar on Sports Law held by the UNED (Spanish Distance Learning University). Sessions: TV Rights and Competition Law and National Leagues v European Leagues: a Competition Law Perspective, Madrid, 20-21 October 2010.
Guest International Speaker at the Seminar New Competition Law in Colombia: Progress and Challenges, Universidad Externado de Colombia, Bogota (Colombia), 29-30 July 2009. Books: Manual de Derecho de la Competencia Comunitario y Español, Tecnos, Madrid, 2008. (Co-authored with Luis Ortiz Blanco, Jerónimo Maíllo and Pablo Ibañez Colomo). Blog: Co-editor of Chillin Competition (1.350.000 visits on November 2016). Author of over 350 posts on EU/Competition/Antitrust law. Articles in Journals, Book chapters and Papers: On the Notion of Restriction of Competition: what we know and what we don t know we know, forthcoming in Damien Gerard, Massimo Merola and Bernd Meyring (eds), The Notion of Restriction of Competition: Revisiting the Foundations of Antitrust Enforcement in Europe (Bruylant 2017), available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2849831 The Double Duality of Two-Sided Markets, Competition Law Journal, Volume 14, Issue 1, 2015, available at https://antitrustlair.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/the-double-duality-of-two-sidedmarkets_clj_lamadrid.pdf La prueba de los cárteles en España, JM Beneyto and J Maillo (Eds): La lucha contra los cárteles en España, Aranzadi, 2015. El procedimiento sancionador en materia de cárteles, JM Beneyto and J Maillo (Eds): La lucha contra los cárteles en España, Aranzadi, 2015. EU Google Commitments, Journal of European Competition Law & Practice (2013) 4 (6). Book review: The Concept of Abuse in EU Competition Law (by Pinar Akman), Competition Law Journal, Volume 12, Issue 4, 2013, available at http://chillingcompetition.com/?s=the+concept+of+abuse Antitrust and the Political Center, CPI Antitrust Chronicle, January 2013 (2), available at: https://www.competitionpolicyinternational.com/file/view/7034 Nullity/Voidness: An overview of EU and national case law", Foreword for e-competitions Special Issue on Nullity/Voidness, available at http://www.concurrences.com/anglais/bulletin/specialissues/nullity-voidness/nullity-voidness-an-overview-of-eu?var_mode=calcul (1 November 2012) (Coauthored with Luis Ortiz Blanco). "EU Competition Law Enforcement: Elements for a discussion on effectiveness and uniformity, International Antitrust Law & Policy: Fordham Competition Law 2011", Chapter 4, 2012. (Co-authored with Luis Ortiz Blanco), draft version available at http://antitrustlair.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/ortizlamadrid_european-comp-l-enforcement.pdf "Expert Economic Evidence and Effects-Based Assessments in Competition Cases in Merola, M and Derenne, J. (eds), The Role of the Court of Justice of the EU in Competition Law Cases, Global
Competition Law Center Annual Conference Series, Bruylant, 2012. (Co-authored with Luis Ortiz Blanco). Derecho de la competencia y poder sustancial conjunto oligopolístico. Una perspectiva europea, Ginebra, X and Negrete, O (eds), Derecho de la competencia económica, Obra Jurídica Enciclopédica en Homenaje a la Escuela Libre de Derecho en su Primer Centenario, Editorial Porrúa, México, 2012. (Co-authored with Luis Ortiz Blanco). Defensa de la Competencia made in China, in Ortiz Blanco, L. and Sanfrutos Cano, E. (eds), Derecho de la Competencia europeo y español- Volumen XII, Dykinson, Madrid, 2009. (Co-authored with Napoleón Ruiz). El procedimiento sancionador y sus garantías, in Martinez Lage, S. and Petitbo Juan, A. (eds), Los acuerdos horizontales entre empresas, Marcial Pons, Madrid, 2009. (Co-authored with Luis Ortiz Blanco) Fine Arts in Brussels: Punishment and Settlement of Cartel Cases under EC Competition Law in Raffaelli, E.A. (ed), Antitrust: between EC Law and National Law, Bruylant, Bruxelles, 2008. (Coauthored with Luis Ortiz Blanco and Ángel Givaja). Comentario a la Sentencia del TJCE en los asuntos acumulados C-486/06 a C-478/06, Sot. Lélos kai Sia EE y otros c. GlaxoSmithKline AEVE Farmakeftion Proïnton, Gaceta Jurídica de la UE y de la Competencia, n. 6, November-December 2008. Defensa de la Competencia made in China, Expansión, August 2 2008, p. 38. Competencia Fiscal Perniciosa y Control de Ayudas de Estado, in Ortiz Blanco, L. y Entrena Rovers, J. (ed), Derecho de la Competencia europeo y español Curso de iniciación, vol. VII, Dykinson, Madrid, 2007. La modernización de la aplicación de los artículos 81 y 82 del Tratado CE, Editorial EL DERECHO, Diario de Jurisprudencia, June 14 2006, n. 2215. Editorial El Derecho, pp. 9-15. Comentarios a la Resolución del Tribunal de Defensa de la Competencia de 16 de diciembre de 2004 en el expediente Ediciones Musicales R 609/2004 en EL DERECHO Diario de Jurisprudencia, June 21 2005, n. 2150. Editorial El Derecho, pp. 1-7. (Co-authored with Luis Ortiz Blanco). El Código de Conducta en materia de fiscalidad de las empresas y su relación con el régimen comunitario de ayudas de estado. Working Paper 3/2005, Serie Política de la Competencia, Instituto de Estudios Europeos, Universidad San Pablo CEU, 2005. RECOGNITIONS, SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS Acknowledged as a recommended competition lawyer by Chambers & Partners Europe Guide for EU Competition/Belgium (only associate to watch in 2014-2016 editions) and Competition/Spain ( star associate in 2016 edition). Nominated for the Antitrust Writing Awards in 2014, 2015 and 2016. Scholarship for the pursuit of postgraduate studies at Harvard Law School (Fundación Ramón Areces, 2009). Scholarship for academic excellence (Comunidad de Madrid, 2006).
Scholarship for the pursuit of postgraduate studies at the College of Europe (Spanish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, 2006). Prize to the Best Law Graduate (Premio Extraordinario Fin de Carrera), Universidad San Pablo CEU, Madrid, 2006. First Prize, IX San Raimundo de Peñafort Prize for Initiation to Research, 2005.