{"id":1731,"date":"2025-09-11T10:59:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T09:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hitchings-gonzalez.com\/team\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T23:17:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T22:17:35","slug":"team","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hitchings-gonzalez.com\/en\/team\/","title":{"rendered":"Team"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Excellence is built on people. Our team combines international and multidisciplinary experience with a passion for every detail.<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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We work closely with leading experts from other disciplines at national and international level to respond to the specific characteristics and needs of each client and project.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Paul Hitchings<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Paul is passionate about the law. As a result of his particular personal and professional journey, that passion has developed along fascinating contours marked by the relationship between different disciplines: EU substantive law and national procedural law, private international law, comparative procedural and tort law, economics and the law. In these areas he has had the privilege to make a real contribution to the development of the law, both by means of participation as counsel on leading cases, and by means of publications, conferences or judicial training.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Indeed, Paul\u00b4s passion for his work has been accompanied by a continuing desire to learn and to share that learning with others. Paul completed a part-time PhD on the impact of EU law on national procedure in antitrust damages litigation in 2023, receiving an <\/span>Extraordinary Prize<\/span><\/i> from the Faculty of Law of the Madrid Complutense University, work which was updated and published in Spanish by Tirant lo Blanch as a monograph in 2024. Paul is also the creator and director of the <\/span>Madrid Competition Litigation Seminar<\/span><\/i>, internationally-renowned for uniquely bringing together stakeholders from all areas of practice for open debate, and has imparted several training sessions to Spanish and foreign judges on the private enforcement of competition law.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A graduate of Cambridge University (Trinity Hall) and the College of Europe, Paul qualified as an English solicitor at international law firm, Norton Rose, in 1995 and specialized in EU competition law and telecommunications in the firm\u2019s Brussels office, where he worked on the first essential facilities cases in the EU, as well as high profile cases related to liberalization in the telecoms and air transport sectors.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Paul moved to Spain in 1998 to be with his wife, Ana, and focused his initial years on matters relating to the liberalization of the Spanish telecoms sector. He joined the litigation department of Iberian firm, Cuatrecasas, in 2002, where he not only developed the TMT business acting on behalf of clients like T-Online, Xfera or Microsoft but created the first antitrust private enforcement practice in Spain.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The private enforcement journey began with the first successful competition damages case brought by him before the Spanish Commercial Courts on behalf of Irish directory enquiry provider, Conduit, against Telef\u00f3nica. Paul has gone on to litigate mass competition claims in various jurisdictions around the EU (including, as well as Spain, England, France and Italy). Cases have related <\/span>inter alia<\/span><\/i> to the <\/span>Marine Hose Cartel<\/span><\/i>, the <\/span>Spanish<\/span><\/i> Fruit Packaging Cartel<\/span><\/i>, the UK <\/span>Multilateral Interchange Litigation<\/span><\/i> or the UK and French litigation in relation to the <\/span>Carbon Brushes Cartel<\/span><\/i>. His clients have included local agriculture cooperatives and international businesses of the likes of Inditex, Pemex or Deutsche Bahn.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2016, Paul directed the legal team which prepared the EU Pass-on Study with RBB Economics for the European Commission, which formed the basis for the EU\u2019s practical guidelines to national judges on this complex aspect of many antitrust damages cases. On the defence side, Paul led the defence of Daimler in the Trucks litigation in Spain from 2017 until 2020 and piloted the first successful defence of a cartel damages claim in Spain on the merits, obtaining the full dismissal of claims arising out of the <\/span>Construction Insurance Cartel<\/span><\/i> by the Madrid Court of Appeal in 2022. Paul is currently representing farmers in their claims arising out of the Spanish milk cartel and is leading the first pay for delay claims before the Spanish courts on behalf of a regional health authority. He is the only Spanish lawyer to have been recommended specifically for private enforcement in Spain (since 2017, by GCR and Who\u2019s Who Legal).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Paul launched his own boutique firm, Hitchings & Co., in late 2020 offering specialized services in the areas of EU, Regulatory and Competition Law and related complex litigation and created Hitchings & Gonzalez in 2025 with Blas Gonz\u00e1lez to take this practice to a new level, so continuing the wonderful journey commenced all those years ago. <\/span><\/p>\n

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