Networking aperitif
Thursday 25th September h. 19:00 (CET) Sponsored by The Aperitif, sponsored by our Platinum Partner “ACTECON”, will take place at the Chiostro del Bramante in Via Arco della Pace, 5. The Chiostro del Bramante, a highlight of Renaissance architecture in Rome, was designed by Donato Bramante (1444-1515) after he moved from Milan following the fall […]
Merger control: Navigating complex deals from conception to clearance
Parallel Session Thursday 26th September h. 15:00-15:45 (CET) Managed by This session will focus on recent global trends in cartels enforcement and practical compliance considerations companies should think about in order to be prepared for antitrust investigations. The panel will discuss substantive issues competition authorities are focusing on in an era of rising enforcement. Chair […]
Laura Tresoldi
Laura Tresoldi’s practice primarily focuses on EU and Italian competition law. Ms. Tresoldi advises clients in the framework of merger control procedures, and cartel and abuse of dominant position issues. She advises Italian and foreign companies in relation to proceedings before the Italian Competition Authority and the European Commission and on appeal respectively before the […]
Joseph E. Harrington, Jr.
Joe Harrington is the Patrick T. Harker Professor in the Department of Business Economics & Public Policy at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He has published more than 100 articles in leading journals such as the American Economic Review, Econometrica, and the Antirust Law Journal. His research focuses on collusion and cartels with […]
Labour markets: Expanding the Scope of Competition Policy?
Parallel Session Labour markets: Expanding the Scope of Competition Policy? Wednesday 25th September h. 12:00-12:45 (CET) Managed by Labour markets have become a topic of debate and special interest among competition authorities, policymakers and businesses in numerous jurisdictions. Cases involving anticompetitive agreements in labour markets have made the headlines in various jurisdictions, including Türkiye. The […]
Riccardo Molè
Riccardo Molè is an associate based in the Milan office. His practice focuses on EU and Italian competition law. Riccardo advises clients in relation to proceedings before the Italian Antitrust Authority and the European Commission concerning cartels, horizontal and vertical agreements, abuses of dominant position and merger control procedures, in the relevant appeal court proceedings, and […]
Matteo Beretta
Matteo Beretta is a partner based in the Milan office. Mr. Beretta’s practice primarily focuses on European law and antitrust law, a practice area in which he advises numerous major international companies in regard to merger control procedures, and cartel and abuse of dominant position matters. Mr. Beretta is distinguished as a leading Competition/European Law […]
Patrick Hubert
Patrick Hubert, a Paris-based partner in the Antitrust & Competition group, brings decades of legal experience and innovation in both private practice and government, with experience ranging from acting as chief of staff to the French Minister of Justice, to being general counsel and chief investigator with the French competition authority, and from acting as […]
Giovanni Napolitano
Giovanni Napolitano graduated in economics in 1985 and received his Master’s Degree in Science and Technology Policy from the Science Policy Research Unit (University of Sussex, UK) in 1987. After 7 years spent at the Italian National Research Council working on science policy matters, he joined the Italian Competition Authority in 1994. He worked there […]
Charles Demoulin
Charles Demoulin is a shareholder and executive director of Deminor. He is the acting Chief Investment Officer of Deminor. Deminor funds litigation for the benefit of corporations and institutional investors from across the globe with recovering their economic losses caused by various types of misconduct. Typical situations include dissemination of false information, market abuse, violation […]
Massimo Motta
Massimo Motta is Research Professor of Economics at ICREA-Universitat Pompeu Fabra and at the Barcelona School of Economics (BSE). He served as Chief Competition Economist of the European Commission from 2013 to 2016, and he has extensive experience in advising competition and regulatory agencies from all over the world, as well as training their staff. […]
Jacopo Figus Diaz
Jacopo Figus Diaz’s practice focuses on European and Italian competition law. He assists Italian and foreign clients on a wide range of antitrust issues, including restrictive practices, cooperation agreements, abuses of dominance and merger control proceedings before the European Commission and the Italian Competition Authority as well as in litigation before Italian administrative and civil […]
Giacomo Calzolari
Giacomo Calzolari is Professor of Economics at the European University Institute, and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London. He has published in top international journals such as American Economic Review, Rand Journal of Economics, International Economic Review, Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Financial Intermediation, Review of Financial Studies, and […]
Ermelinda Spinelli
Ermelinda Spinelli covers EU and Italian competition law, with particular experience of cartel and dominance investigations, State-aid cases, merger reviews and antitrust compliance. She has also conducted several antitrust due diligences in the context of merger proceedings and internal audits, and gained antitrust litigation experience before the EU courts. Her experience crosses a range of […]
Alessandro Di Giò
Alessandro Di Giò is counsel in our ‘Antitrust, Competition and Trade’ group in Rome. His practice covers all areas of EU and Italian competition law, as well as regulatory and antitrust litigation, audits, integration planning and compliance programs, foreign investments and foreign subsidies control. He has experience across a wide range of sectors, and particularly […]
Francesca Miotto
Francesca Miotto is a Partner in the Brussels antitrust team and a member of the life sciences group. She acts on the full range of competition law issues across a variety of industries and has dealt extensively with the EU Commission and other regulators around the world. Francesca’s experience is truly diverse: she has represented clients […]
Fevzi M. Toksoy
Fevzi Toksoy is a Managing Partner at ACTECON. He bases his professional life on the notion of fair competition in all areas of life, whereas ethics and compliance are the core of it. He is active in promoting international competition policy for better business, sustainable future and competitive economies. Fevzi freshly started serving as one […]
Emilio De Giorgi
Emilio De Giorgi leads our Italian Antitrust team and has over 20 years’ experience of assisting Italian and multinational companies in behavioural investigations before the Italian Antitrust Authority and the European Commission (including cartels, abuse of dominance position, unfair commercial practices and misleading advertising), obtaining merger clearances at national and European levels and coordinating multi-jurisdictional filings. […]
Annamaria Mangiaracina
Annamaria Mangiaracina is a partner in the Linklaters Antitrust and Foreign Investment Group practice, based in Brussels. She is a fully rounded competition lawyer with considerable experience representing clients in international merger control, FDI, cartel investigations and litigation matters in a wide range of industries, with a focus on the energy, healthcare, telecommunications and FMG […]
Fabienne Siredey-Garnier
Fabienne Siredey-Garnier has been appointed Vice President of the French Competition Authority in 2018. Vice-President of the Autorité de la concurrence having previously served as Rapporteur in 2007-2009. Appointed magistrate in 2003, she was deputy prosecutor and then presided over several criminal chambers in the Bobigny, Nanterre and Paris High Courts. In 1992, was appointed […]
Bahadir Balki
Bahadir Balki is a Managing Partner at ACTECON and the co-head of the firm’s competition practice. He has extensive experience in all sorts of TCA proceedings and investigations, with a particular focus on abuse of dominance investigations, global merger cases, especially in Phase II procedures, as well as leniency enforcement. He contributed to the creation […]
Nuno Cunha Rodrigues
With an academic career at the University of Lisbon School of Law (FDUL), where he graduated, obtained a master’s degree in Legal and Business Sciences and a PhD in Legal and Economic Sciences, Nuno Cunha Rodrigues is president of the AdC since March 13, 2023. As an associate professor at the mentioned Law School, he […]
Lucio D’Amario
Lucio D’Amario is a partner based in our Milan office and heads Linklaters’ Italian Antitrust & Foreign Investment practice. Lucio holds a M.Jur from Oxford University and has extensive expertise in all aspects of EU and Italian competition law, with a focus on anticompetitive agreements, abuses of dominant position and merger control. Lucio also regularly advises […]
Tommaso Valletti
Tommaso Valletti is Professor of Economics at the Imperial College Business School, and Professor of Economics at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” (on leave). He has previously taught at the London School of Economics, Telecom ParisTech/Ecole Polytechnique, and Turin. Valletti is currently the Head of the Department of Economics & Public Policy at Imperial College Business […]
William E. Kovacic
William E. Kovacic is currently a professor of Global Competition Law and Policy and director of the Competition Law Center at George Washington University. Since 2013, Professor Kovacic has served as a Non-executive Director of the United Kingdom’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). He was a Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission from January 2006 […]
Michele Carpagnano
Michele Carpagnano is a partner in Dentons’ Rome office and the head of the Italian Competition & Antitrust practice, PhD, he holds a teaching position in EU Competition Law at University of Trento. Founder and Co-Director of the Trento Summer School in Advanced EU Competition Law & Economics, he is also the Founder and Co-Director […]
Pinar Akman
Pinar Akman is a Professor of Law at the School of Law, University of Leeds. Outside of academia, she is an Ordinary Member (judge) at the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal and a member of the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) Innovation Advisory Group. Previously, she was a Director at the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence in Digital […]
