Enrico Adriano Raffaelli

Enrico Adriano Raffaelli is a partner at Rucellai & Raffaelli. He studied at the University of Milan where he graduated in law in 1973. He was admitted to bar on 1976 and in 1979 he founded the Law Firm Rucellai & Raffaelli. The main areas of practice are Italian and EU competition law, unfair competition, intellectual property rights. He has specific expertise in the area of competition law, acting in litigation, advising and representing major companies both at a national and EU level. He provides assistance to multinational groups in several different economic sectors, including TV media, insurance, steel, chemical, pharmaceutical, IT, electronic and consumer goods. He is a frequent lecturer on intellectual and industrial property rights, community law and EC and national competition law at conferences and seminars; among the major conferences, the most important of the recent years were those held before the Fordham University of New York, the Ilustre Colegi d’Advocats de Barcelona and the Patent and Trademark Italian Office. He teached Community Law at the Milan Catholic University. He is Honorary President of UAE (European Lawyers Union) of which he is presently President of the Competition Law Commission. He is member of the board of the Associazione Italiana per la tutela della concorrenza, the Italian Section of LIDC (Ligue International du Droit de la Concurrence). He is also member of various associations such as Indicam, the Centromarca institute for the fight against counterfeit, INTA (International Trademark Association), AIPPI (Association International pour la Protection de la Propriété Industrielle), and LES (Licensing Executive Society. He has been promoting the organisation of the editions of the UAE Treviso Conference on “Antitrust between EC Law and National Law” (the XIV edition took place on 29 October 2020). He received the "excellence award" at the Legalcommunity’s IP & TMT Awards 2016, which took place on May 9, 2016.