Carles Esteva Mosso

Carles Esteva Mosso, former Deputy Director-General of the European Commission’s Directorate General for Competition, draws on more than 25 years of enforcement agency experience to advise clients on complex EU and international mergers, antitrust and State aid matters.

Carles advises clients on complex merger control proceedings, including Phase II investigations and merger appeals. He is a leader in the area of foreign subsidies control and has advised clients on the implementation of the EU Regulation on Foreign Subsidies (FSR), including handling the first filing ever submitted to the EC under the new regulation.

Prior to joining the firm, he served in multiple high-profile positions at the European Commission, including as Deputy Director-General in charge of Merger Control (from 2014-2019) and of State Aids (from 2019-2021). He also held a number of other leadership posts relating to merger enforcement and competition policy. He was a member of the Cabinet of former Commissioner Mario Monti; Head of Unit responsible for Merger Policy; Mergers in Telecoms and IT and Private Enforcement and Director for Competition Policy and Strategy.

In these capacities, he has been actively involved in some of Europe’s most significant and complex merger control and State aid matters, policy decisions, and legislative proposals over the past two decades. Amongst others, he spearheaded the proposal for an EU regulation on foreign subsidies. His experience includes working in cooperation with senior government representatives of EU Member States on matters of national importance and with prominent competition enforcement agencies across the world.

Carles combines his deep understanding of law and policy matters, commercial acumen, as well as his unique perspective on complex decision making and big picture issues to assist clients with their most sophisticated competition law matters.