Band 3
Band 4
Expertise Based Abroad
About
Provided by Alfonso Lamadrid
Practice Areas
EU Competition law (cartels, restrictive agreements, unilateral conduct, State aid, merger control). Litigation before EU Courts.
Career
Partner at Garrigues; Visiting Professor Brussels School of Competition; Non-Governmental Advisor to the European Commission before the International Competition Network; Visiting Lecturer at the College of Europe.
Professional Memberships
Brussels Bar; Madrid Bar.
Publications
"The Notion of Restriction of Competition; what we know and what we do not know" (2016); “The Double Duality of Two-Sided Markets” (2015); Co-editor of the legal blog Chillin’Competition.
Personal
LLM Harvard Law School; LLM College of Europe; Law degree, San Pablo CEU University.
Chambers Review
Europe
Alfonso Lamadrid demonstrates impressive work highlights representing high-profile clients from the technology sector before both the European Commission and the CNMC. He has experience in standout cases seeking the annulment of EC fines imposed against IT companies for abuse of dominance. Alfonso Lamadrid additionally exhibits high levels of activity on seminal state aid matters, where he has successfully represented clients in appealing EC state aid decisions before the EGC.
Alfonso Lamadrid demonstrates impressive work highlights representing high-profile clients from the technology sector before both the European Commission and the CNMC. He has experience in standout cases seeking the annulment of EC fines imposed against IT companies for abuse of dominance. Alfonso Lamadrid additionally exhibits high levels of activity on seminal state aid matters, where he has successfully represented clients in appealing EC state aid decisions before the EGC.
Brussels-based Alfonso Lamadrid is adept at representing high-profile technology sector clients before the CNMC and the European Commission.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"He has outstanding legal skills combined with fantastic commercial skills. He is pragmatic, very clear and extremely responsive. He thinks strategically and is able to understand very complex parts of the business."
"He can see things from a holistic point of view and he can tell which points you need to focus on more."
"Alfonso Lamadrid is very responsive, flexible, has fast understanding and addresses the questions clearly."
"He has shown himself to be highly competent and commercially minded."
"What I value the most is having someone who is reliable, knows exactly what the problem is and is able to expose it fairly and clearly. I would say this for Alfonso Lamadrid."
"He has outstanding legal skills combined with fantastic commercial skills. He is pragmatic, very clear and extremely responsive. He thinks strategically and is able to understand very complex parts of the business."
"He can see things from a holistic point of view and he can tell which points you need to focus on more."
"Alfonso Lamadrid is very responsive, flexible, has fast understanding and addresses the questions clearly."
"He has shown himself to be highly competent and commercially minded."
"What I value the most is having someone who is reliable, knows exactly what the problem is and is able to expose it fairly and clearly. I would say this for Alfonso Lamadrid."
"He has outstanding legal skills combined with fantastic commercial skills. He is pragmatic, very clear and extremely responsive. He thinks strategically and is able to understand very complex parts of the business."
"He can see things from a holistic point of view and he can tell which points you need to focus on more."
"Alfonso Lamadrid is very responsive, flexible, has fast understanding and addresses the questions clearly."
"He has shown himself to be highly competent and commercially minded."
"What I value the most is having someone who is reliable, knows exactly what the problem is and is able to expose it fairly and clearly. I would say this for Alfonso Lamadrid."
"He has outstanding legal skills combined with fantastic commercial skills. He is pragmatic, very clear and extremely responsive. He thinks strategically and is able to understand very complex parts of the business."
"He can see things from a holistic point of view and he can tell which points you need to focus on more."
"Alfonso Lamadrid is very responsive, flexible, has fast understanding and addresses the questions clearly."
"He has shown himself to be highly competent and commercially minded."
"What I value the most is having someone who is reliable, knows exactly what the problem is and is able to expose it fairly and clearly. I would say this for Alfonso Lamadrid."