Litigating for the European Commission

Fernando Castillo de la Torre is Director-Principal Legal Adviser in the Legal Service of the European Commission and heads the team for competition and mergers. He has been working in the Legal Service since 1996 in the teams for internal market, competition, external relations, and agriculture, fisheries and animal and plant health. He studied both law and political science in Madrid (Spain), graduating in 1989 and 1990 respectively. He subsequently undertook postgraduate studies at the College of Europe in Bruges (Belgium). He worked in the chambers of the President of the European Court of Justice between 1997 and 2002. He has been agent for the European Commission in almost 500 cases in the European Court of Justice, and has pleaded for the Commission in many of the most important competition cases over the last 20 years. He has published widely on competition law, judicial review and litigation before EU Courts, the relationship between legal orders (international, EU and national), external relations of the EU and the internal market.

The Centre for Law, Economics and Society (UCL) and the UCL competition law team are delighted to announce this new series of seminars topics on public and private enforcement, and complex competition law litigation. In this series we will be inviting prominent practitioners, regulators, enforcers and judges to share their experiences from litigating competition law matters.

Standard Ticket: £25.00
Public Sector Ticket: free of charge **
Full Time Student Ticket (non-UCL): £8.00
UCL Students & Staff: free of charge

** Public sector tickets are for full time employed academic or those working in academic institutions, members of the judiciary, competition authorities or tribunals, government legal departments. You must sign up using your institutional email for this ticket

17:45 Registration
18:00 Theatre opens and Event begins
19:00 Q&A
19:15 Event ends

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