Andrea Zulli joined Covington from Norton Rose in January 2014. He has joined the growing European competition group and will be based in Brussels and London. Andrea specialises in EU, Italian and UK competition law, and his practice covers advising clients in relation to national and international merger control as well as cartels, other restrictive agreements and behavioural matters, abuses of a dominant position, unfair commercial practices and antitrust compliance. Andrea is an Italian Avvocato and a Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales. He obtained an LL.M. from the University of Stockholm and a J.D. from L.U.I.S.S. (Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali) in Rome. Andrea is a native Italian speaker, fluent in English and has a comprehensive knowledge of French.
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On July 16, 2020, the European Commission (“Commission”) announced that it has launched an antitrust sector inquiry into "consumer-related products and services that are connected to a network and can be controlled at a distance, for example via a voice assistant or mobile device." Commission (...)
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The UK has introduced a class action mechanism that could lead to an increase in antitrust litigation. Most significantly, the new mechanism will enable opt-out class actions, which are potentially effective in aggregating individually low value claims, into a single high value, and (...)
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On July 9, 2015, the EU’s top court, the EU Court of Justice (CJEU), rendered its long-awaited ruling in the Innolux - LCD cartel appeal. The Innolux case is effectively the EU counterpart of the U.S. Motorola litigation in that it concerns fundamental issues of antitrust jurisdiction over (...)
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With its judgment of 12 February 2013, the Italian Supreme Administrative Court (Consiglio di Stato) upheld the judgment of the Italian Administrative Court of First Instance (TAR Lazio) confirming the 2010 decision[[ Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato, decision No. 21297 of 30 (...)
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With decision of 11 January 2013, the Italian Supreme Administrative Court (Consiglio di Stato) quashed a judgment of the Italian Administrative Court of First Instance (TAR Lazio) and upheld the 2011 Italian Competition Authority’s (ICA) decision[[ Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del (...)
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With the judgment published on 15 January 2013, the Italian administrative court of first instance with jurisdiction on antitrust cases (TAR Lazio) annulled the Italian Competition Authority’s (ICA) decision fining 15 firms and two trade associations for taking part in a cartel whose aim was to (...)
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The European Commission (the " Commission") yesterday released its final report into the provision of insurance products and services to businesses in the EU (the " Report"). The Business Insurance Sector Inquiry (the " Inquiry") was launched in June 2005 in parallel with the Retail Banking (...)
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