About the authors

Viktor Luszcz

Viktor Luszcz is attorney at law, partner at Danubia Legal – Luszcz Law Firm. He specialises in European and Hungarian competition and intellectual property law and is a Member of the Budapest Bar.

Previously, he worked for eleven years as a legal secretary (référendaire) at the General Court of the EU (Luxembourg), where he was responsible for several major intellectual property, competition, State aid and antidumping cases. For two years, he was the President of the Hungarian Intellectual Property Office. His past working experience also includes the European Commission's DG Competition (Brussels), where he handled antitrust and merger cases. Viktor holds Master of EU Law (LL.M) degrees from the College of Europe, Bruges, and the University of Rennes I (France).

He regularly publishes on EU law and is the editor of courtprocedure.eu. Viktor speaks fluent Hungarian, English, German, French and Polish.

Email: luszcz@altemate.eu

Alexandre Geulette

Alexandre Geulette has been a legal secretary (référendaire) at the Court of Justice of the EU (chambers of Judge M. Ilešič) since 2014. Prior to that, Alexandre worked for six years in the same capacity at the General Court of the EU (chambers of Judge M. E. Martins Ribeiro), where his practice focused on EU competition law.

Before joining the Court of Justice, he was a member of the Brussels bar and practiced EU and Belgian competition law as well as Belgian business law in a leading independent law firm based in Brussels. Alexandre graduated in law from Saint-Louis University (Belgium) and the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium) and holds a Master's degree (LL.M) from Cambridge University (UK). He regularly publishes on various aspects of EU law. Alexandre speaks French, English and Dutch.

Viktor Bottka

Viktor Bottka has been a member of the European Commission Legal Service (Brussels) for the past 15 years. He has represented the institution in hundreds of cases before the EU Courts and national courts, specialising in State aid and antitrust law (financial services, cartels and mergers). He is an author and speaker on EU competition law matters.

Viktor holds Hungarian university degrees in law and economics and a Master's degree (LL.M) in EU Law from the College of Europe, Bruges. Previously he worked one year in private practice and three years in the European Commission's DG Competition. He fluently speaks Hungarian, English, French, German, Bulgarian and Swedish.

Martin Farley

Martin Farley is a member of the European Commission Legal Service (Brussels), specialising in European competition law and merger control. He is a qualified solicitor in England and Wales, as well as Ireland. Martin is a Fellow of the Centre of European Law of King's College London, and part of the editorial team of the Journal of European Competition Law and Practice.

Previously, he worked for six years at an international law firm, during which time he specialised in competition law, merger control, State aid law and public procurement. Martin graduated from the College of Europe, Bruges, and King's College London (UK). He speaks fluent English, French and German.

Milan Kristof

Milan Kristof has been a legal secretary (référendaire) at the Court of Justice of the EU (Luxembourg) since 2006, where he has been responsible inter alia for many major competition law, merger, State aid, intellectual property, regulatory, internet, trade and international law cases. Prior to that, Milan worked in antitrust as a case-handler at the European Commission's DG Competition (Brussels) and in Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP. He is a contributor to Bellamy & Child: EU Law of Competition and to Oxford Competition Law.

He speaks regularly on EU law, intellectual property and competition law (New York, Washington DC, Chicago, London, etc.). Since 2009 he gives annual courses and workshops at the École nationale de la magistrature in Bordeaux and at the Instituto de estudios bursátiles in Madrid. Milan has also given training to national judges e.g. in Belgium, Germany, Bulgaria and Serbia. He studied law and economics at the Universities of Bratislava and Košice (Slovakia) and the Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam (the Netherlands). Milan speaks fluent English, German, French, Slovak and has a good command of Spanish and Dutch.

Vivien Terrien

Vivien Terrien is a legal secretary (référendaire) at the General Court of the EU (Luxembourg) and was part of the President's chambers for ten years. Before joining the Court in 2009, Vivien practiced as a competition lawyer in Paris at Linklaters and, then, in Brussels at WilmerHale. He also acts as ICN representative for the Competition Council of Luxembourg since 2019. In addition to writing articles on EU litigation, antitrust and institutional law topics and lecturing at the Paris II Panthéon-Assas, Lorraine Universities and Catholic University of Paris, he regularly intervenes as a speaker on EU and competition law matters in international fora and before various national authorities. He has organised and participated in several trainings and workshops for national judges.

Vivien qualified as a Paris and New York attorney-at-law after obtaining law degrees from Harvard Law School, the College of Europe, Bruges, and the Universities of Paris II Panthéon-Assas and Nantes. Vivien speaks English and French.