Alfonso Lamadrid

Alfonso’s experience includes:

• Representing Alphabet and Google in the annulment and appeal proceedings concerning the European Commission’s (EC) decision in the Google Android case, which imposed the largest fine in the history of EU competition law (€4.343 million, reduced to €4.125 million by the General Court)*
• Representing Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) in support of Google’s appeal in the landmark Google Shopping case before the Court of Justice of the EU (ECJ)*
• Representing Alphabet and Google in relation to a preliminary reference submitted by the Italian Council of State in the Android Auto case concerning the application of the refusal to supply doctrine to digital platforms before the ECJ*
• Representing an online platform in infringement proceedings under the DSA*
• Representing FIFPRO Europe, European Leagues, and LALIGA in an abuse of dominance complaint against FIFA’s unilateral setting of the International Match Calendar before the EC*
• Representing World Padel Tour in an abuse of dominance complaint brought by the International Padel Federation before the EC*
• Representing Abengoa in an administrative investigation, a cartel settlement procedure, and related EU Court litigation in relation to the EC’s Ethanol Benchmarks case*
• Representing Banco Santander, AXA, Ferrovial, Abertis Telecom, and others in appeal proceedings for the annulment of an EC State aid decision (financial goodwill saga) involving several billions of euros, with the EC decision annulled in the first instance and currently under appeal before the ECJ*
• Representing investors in the Spanish “tax lease” regime in proceedings before the EU Courts that led to the annulment of an EC decision ordering the recovery of alleged State aid granted to investors; the EC decision was annulled in so far as it identified these investors as the sole beneficiaries of the advantages resulting from the challenged tax regime*
• Representing Cellnex Telecom in an application for annulment of an EC State aid decision concerning the digitalization of the Spanish terrestrial television network, following the annulment of a previous decision by the ECJ*

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham