Dany Verzeele
Mr. Dany Verzeele studied law at the University of Gent, graduating in 1983 with a Master in Law, specializing in transport and maritime law. From 1983 to 1984, he completed compulsory military service in the Belgian Navy, serving as an officer with the rank of lieutenant at sea. In 2010, he furthered his education by […]
Kirsty McCarron
Kirsty McCarron is an associate in the Baker McKenzie London office’s Antitrust & Competition team. After training at the Firm, she qualified into the team in 2022. As a trainee, Kirsty spent time on secondment with Baker McKenzie’s EU Competition & Regulatory Affairs practice in Brussels. Kirsty’s practice covers a wide variety of competition law […]
Roma McCool
Roma McCool is an associate in the European Competition and Regulatory Affairs Practice Group in the Brussels office. She is a solicitor qualified in England and Wales, having initially trained in London, and joined the Brussels team in July 2023. Prior to beginning her training contract in London, Roma worked in the Baker McKenzie Belfast […]
Kurt Haegeman
Kurt Haegeman is a partner in Baker McKenzie’s EU Competition & Regulatory Affairs Practice in Brussels and co-Managing Partner of the Firm’s Belgian offices. Kurt has extensive experience in advising consumer goods, luxury & fashion and cosmetics clients, and clients from other industry sectors, on complex multi-jurisdictional antitrust matters, including antitrust investigations focusing on horizontal […]
Alexis Walckiers
Dr Alexis Walckiers is a Director in the Brussels office. Before joining E.CA Economics, he was chief economist of the Belgian Competition Authority (BCA) between 2010 and 2020. As chief economist, he sat on the board of the BCA and advised both investigation teams and Competition Colleges on the use of economic tools in competition […]
Aurelien Portuese
Aurelien Portuese is Research Professor at The George Washington University. Professor Portuese is an antitrust expert on US antitrust laws and EU competition laws. Aurelien Portuese is also International Associate in the antitrust practice of Freshfields in the DC office. He is also the Editor of the Special Symposium Beyond Dynamic Competition of the ABA’s Antitrust Law Journal […]
Elisabeth Noble
Elisabeth Noble is a Senior Policy Advisor and the Principal Advisor on innovation at the European Banking Authority. She leads the EBA’s policy work on crypto-assets, including MiCAR implementation, the platformisation of financial services, and structural change in the EU financial sector, and leads the team responsible for the delivery of the EBA’s thematic innovation […]
Anna Tzanaki
Anna Tzanaki is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Leeds (UK), Affiliate Fellow at the Stigler Center at Chicago Booth Business School (USA), and Senior Research Fellow at the UCL Centre of Law, Economics & Society (UK). She is Associate Editor of the Journal of Competition Law & Economics (Oxford) and Competition Policy […]
Oscar Borgogno
Oscar Borgogno is a Research Officer at the Eurosystem (Central Bank of Italy – Economics, Statistics, and Research Directorate General) and Senior Fellow at The George Washington University. He holds a PhD in Law from the University of Turin and a MSc in Law and Finance from the University of Oxford. Fields of Interest: Primary: Financial Regulation, Competition Policy, Financial […]
Joanna Lenart
Joanna Lenart is a Senior Competition Lawyer at A.P. Moller – Maersk, a global transport and logistics company, where she handles matters related to competition law at the group level. In particular, she is involved in advising on competition law aspects of M&A transactions, including obtaining merger and other regulatory approvals globally. Joanna is a […]
Giuseppe Colangelo
Giuseppe Colangelo is a Jean Monnet Professor of European Innovation Policy and an Associate Professor of Law and Economics at University of Basilicata (Italy). He also serves as Adjunct Professor of Markets, Regulation and Law at LUISS (Italy). He is fellow of the Stanford Law School and University of Vienna Transatlantic Technology Law Forum (TTLF), […]
Federico Mercuri
Federico Mercuri is a partner in our ‘Dispute Resolution’ group in Rome. He specialises in domestic/cross-border litigation, including mass claims, internal investigations and criminal/regulatory enforcement proceedings. Federico has an extremely varied investigation, advisory and litigation practice. He advises clients in multi-faceted, cross-border investigations as well in complex litigation, including mass claims, risk management and support […]
Gian Luca Zampa
Gian Luca Zampa, partner and Head of the antitrust practice of Freshfields in Italy, specializes in the whole range of merger control and antitrust matters, including cartels & leniency, vertical arrangements, unfair trade practices, State aid, both before the EU Commission and the Italian Antitrust Authority (IAA). He is also highly active in antitrust litigation […]
Cecilia Carli
Cecilia Carli is a senior associate in our ‘Antitrust, Competition and Trade’ group in Rome. Her practice covers a wide range of regulatory as well as EU/Italian competition law areas, including cartel and dominance proceedings, antitrust litigation, audits and compliance programs. She has gained experience across multiple sectors, with a particular focus on telecoms/tech, manufacturing […]
Stefan Sagebro
The Confederation of Swedish Enterprise brings together 60,000 companies and 48 industry and employer organisations. At the Confederation, Stefan works as a director and expert on Industrial Policy, Competition and State aid law. Before joining Swedish Enterprise, he worked at the Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation as director, mainly focusing on State Aid. Before that, […]
Akari Yamamoto-Bonenfant
Akari Yamamoto-Bonenfant is a Legal Officer at the Competition and Consumer Policies Branch of UNCTAD. Ms. Yamamoto-Bonenfant has around 15 years of working experience in Japan Fair Trade Commission. Her work included case investigations, international cooperation, competition policy making, leniency policy and practices as well as technical assistance for younger competition authorities (mainly for ASEAN […]
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 […]
Riccardo Tremolada
Riccardo Tremolada is an associate in the London office. Riccardo’s practice focuses on EU, Italian and UK competition law. His experience includes complex merger control proceedings, cartel investigations, abuse of dominance cases and a wide range of regulatory matters, including digital markets regulation. He has represented clients before the European Commission, the Italian Competition Authority […]
Hara Nikolopoulou
Hara Nikolopoulou is a lawyer and Vice President of the Hellenic Competition Commission. She has handled numerous cartel, abuse of dominance and merger cases in a wide range of industries. She has served the HCC since 2011 in various positions of trust, having served as Director, Head of Units in the Legal Services Directorate and […]
Marcello Caramazza
Marcello Caramazza is the Head of Antitrust at Clariant, where he oversees all antitrust-related matters on a global scale. During his tenure at Clariant, Marcello has played a pivotal role in international M&A transactions, negotiating critical clauses and successfully coordinating numerous merger and FDI filings. Prior to joining Clariant, he gained extensive experience at international […]
Giulia Giordano
Giulia Giordano is senior associate in Dentons’ Rome office and is a member of the global Competition and Antitrust practice. Giulia advises on Italian and European antitrust law, state aid law and consumer law, including competition litigation before the Italian Competition Authority and administrative courts as well as before the General Court of the European […]
Adano Wario Roba
Adano Roba is currently Acting Director-General (Jan. 2023 -), and Director, Policy, Research, and Quality Assurance at the Competition Authority of Kenya since 2018. Adano directed sector inquiries into the construction industry, airline market and studies in the digital credits market and leasing sector at the Authority. Previously, Adano served as a Senior Policy Analyst […]
Thomas Funke
Dr. Thomas G. Funke is the co-head of the international competition practice at Osborne Clarke. Resolving disputes and creating opportunities, he advises on antitrust litigation, mergers and investigations. In the European Court of Justice and the German Supreme Court, Thomas obtained ground-breaking decisions in Hydrogen Peroxide (C-352/13), Akzo v Commission (T-345/12), CDC v Commission (T-437/08) […]
Mirta Kapural
Mirta Kapural is the president of the Competition Council of Croatian Competition Agency since 1 October 2021. Prior, she was a member of the Competition Council and deputy Head of International and European Department. She is a lawyer by profession with PhD in Company law and Competition law (University of Zagreb) and Master in European […]
Elena Argentesi
Elena Argentesi is a Senior Advisor at Lear. She is an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics of the University of Bologna. She earned a Ph.D. in Economics at the European University Institute. She teaches Competition Economics both at the undergraduate and at the postgraduate level. Her research interests and publications are in the […]
Salvatore Nava
Salvatore Nava is a Partner at Lear. He regularly assists clients in antitrust and litigation matters providing expert economic advice. He holds advanced degrees in Economics and Industrial Economics from the University of Rome Tor Vergata and the University of East Anglia respectively. Prior to joining Lear, Salvatore worked for two years for a competition economics […]
Sean Ennis
Director of the Centre for Competition Policy and Professor of Competition Policy at Norwich Business School, Sean Ennis has extensive experience in competition law and policy, strategy and economic policy. From 2003-2018, he was a Senior Economist in the Competition Division of the OECD. For two years during this time, he served as Executive Director of […]
Claudio Colacurcio
Claudio Colacurcio is a Partner at Prometeia since 2022. Graduated in Economics from the Bocconi University of Milan, he works for the Industrial and Regional Strategies practice. In Prometeia since 2009, he coordinates studies and consulting projects dedicated to industrial scenarios, the internationalization processes of companies and impact analyses on regulatory issues and trade policy. […]
Iris Sotiria Ntolaptsi
Iris Ntolaptsi is a senior associate at Calavros Law Firm – Filios – Kloukinas. She was admitted to the Athens Bar in 2014 and holds an LL.M. in Private International Law from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and an LL.M. in Commercial Law from the Université Paris 13. Currently she is a PHD […]
Angeliki Rousaki
Angeliki Rousaki is a senior associate at Calavros Law Firm – Filios – Kloukinas. She graduated from Democrition University of Thrace (Law School) and holds an LL.M in Commercial Law from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and an LL.M. in International Commercial Arbitration from International Hellenic University. Currently, she is a Ph.D. candidate in Democrition University […]
Ioanna Vergeti
Ioanna Vergeti has been an Associate at Calavros Law Firm – Filios – Kloukinas since 2010 and a Partner at the firm since 2019. She is active in the fields of civil law, commercial law, medical and pharmaceutical law, media law and intellectual property law. Ms. Vergeti has represented clients from a broad range of […]
Elisabetta Iossa
Elisabetta Iossa was nominated Commissioner at the Italian Antitrust Authority on 1st February 2022. She is full Professor of Economics at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” (on leave), Research Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Research (C.E.P.R., London), C.E.I.S-Tor Vergata and GREEN-Bocconi, and member of the Executive Committee of the European Association for Research […]
Alessia Marrazzo
Alessia Marrazzo is a Partner at Lear. She has a wide experience in litigation cases, supporting clients in follow-on damages actions and international arbitration cases. She has advised clients in a variety of sectors, ranging from telecoms, energy, transport, media, jet fuel, prestressed concrete and plastic packaging. At Lear, Alessia has also been involved in several […]
Tomasz Chróstny
Tomasz Chróstny is President of the Polish Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (UOKiK). He graduated in finance and accounting at the Warsaw School of Economics and in management and production engineering at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences. He also completed a postgraduate course at the Institute of Enterprise at the Warsaw School of […]
Andrea Marván Saltiel
Andrea Marván holds a Law Degree from the Universidad Iberoamericana and a Master’s Degree in Law from the University of Chicago. She began her professional career at the Federal Economic Competition Commission (Cofece) in 2012. At the Commission, she served as Deputy General Director of the Cartels Division and as Chief of Staff of the […]
H.E Dr. Abdulaziz A. Al-Zoom
H.E Dr. Abdulaziz A. Al-Zoom is the Chief Executive Officer to the General Authority of Competition in Saudi Arabia (Since 2018). President of the Arab Competition Network (Since 2024). He has 13 years experience in Saudi Arabian Capital Market Authority for in different roles, as Director of research (2011-2018), Chairman Advisor (2008-2011) and Media and […]
Valeria Losco
Valeria Losco is an Antitrust Advisor in the antitrust, competition and trade group of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, based in Washington, D.C. Valeria advises clients on a range of antitrust issues, including the U.S. merger control and review process, multijurisdictional merger control, anticompetitive conduct matters, and civil and criminal investigations by both federal and state authorities. Valeria […]
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 […]
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 […]
Antonio Capobianco
Antonio Capobianco is the Deputy Head of the OECD Competition Division. He is responsible for the proceedings of the OECD Competition Committee and for other work streams of the Division. Over the years at the OECD, Mr Capobianco has coordinated a series of OECD projects and work streams and has authored numerous Background Notes of […]
Özlem Bedre Defolie
Özlem Bedre Defolie is Professor of Economics at the European University Institute holding a Joint Chair in Microeconomics at the Robert Schuman Centre and the Department of Economics. She is on leave from ESMT Berlin. She is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and at the Mannheim Centre for Competition and […]
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 […]
