Carles Esteva Mosso from European Commission to join Latham & Watkins as Partner in the Antitrust & Competition Practice

Carles Esteva Mosso from European Commission to join Latham & Watkins as Partner in the Antitrust & Competition Practice

Latham & Watkins has announced that Carles Esteva Mosso – who has worked with the European Commission's Directorate General for Competition (DG COMP) for 25 years in a variety of positions – will join the Brussels office as a Partner in the Antitrust & Competition Practice. He will join Latham & Watkins in June.

At the European Commission's DG COMP, Esteva Mosso has served as the Deputy Director-General for Mergers between 2014-2019 and Deputy Director-General for State Aid between 2019 – 2021. He has also held a number of other leadership posts relating to merger enforcement and competition policy.

Esteva Mosso in his illustrious career with the European Commission has overseen a variety of high profile antitrust, merger control, State aid, cartel and enforcement matters. He is one of the leading figures in the global antitrust community, and has been actively involved in some of Europe's most significant merger control and State aid matters, policy decisions, and legislative proposals over the past two decades.

Mosso has worked in co-operation with senior government representatives of the EU Member States on matters of national importance and with prominent enforcement agencies across the world, including the UK Competition and Markets Authority, the Spanish CNMC, the French Autorité de Concurrence, the German Bundeskartellamt, the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice, the US Federal Trade Commission, and the Chinese SAMR, among others.

With the addition of Esteva Mosso, Latham & Watkins has added yet another feather to its cap as the high profile practitioner brings with him significant enforcement agency experience adding to the firm's market-leading global Antitrust & Competition Practice. His addition follows the recent arrival of Ian Conner – former Director of the Bureau of Competition at the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) who joined the firm in March 2021.

Esteva Mosso graduated in both Law and Economics at the Universidad de Barcelona and in Political Science at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, before completing a Masters Degree in EU Law at the Institut d'Études Européennes of the Université Libre in Brussels. After joining the Barcelona Bar, he worked in private practice for several years before joining the European Commission in 1994.

He has held a number of prominent positions at the Commission over the years, including as a Member of cabinet of former Commissioner for Competition Policy Mario Monti; Head of Unit for Merger Policy, Mergers in Telecoms and IT, and Private Enforcement; Director for Competition Policy and Strategy; and Deputy Director-General in charge of Mergers. Most recently, he served under the leadership of Executive Vice President and Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager as Deputy Director-General for State Aid.