Mr José Antonio de la Calle > White & Case LLP > Madrid, Spain > Lawyer Profile

Mr José Antonio de la Calle

+34 91 787 63 50 [email protected]

Work Department

Antitrust and Competitio

Position

José Antonio heads the White & Case Antitrust and Competition practice in Spain. He has over 25 years of expertise advising companies, trade associations, and government agencies in a wide range of industries on all aspects of EU trade and antitrust/ competition law, focusing on regulated sectors.

Career

José Antonio heads the White & Case Antitrust and Competition practice in Spain. He has over 25 years of expertise advising companies, trade associations, and government agencies in a wide range of industries on all aspects of EU trade and antitrust/ competition law, focusing on regulated sectors.

With extensive experience in the full scope of EU and antitrust/ competition work, particularly in cases with a cross-border link, José Antonio specializes in merger control assignments, cartel investigations and antitrust litigation. He has been involved in some of the most high-profile Spanish cases in recent years, and regularly represents clients before the national competition and markets authority (Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia), the national appeals court (Audiencia Nacional) and the highest court of the realm, the Spanish supreme court (Tribunal Supremo).

José Antonio was the co-founder and managing partner of a leading antitrust law firm in Spain before joining White & Case. He established and successfully developed his own practice for more than a decade after working for 15 years at the Madrid and London offices of a prominent United States law firm, where he became partner in 2009.

Languages

Spanish, English, Swedish, French