Francesca Morra is a partner at the Milan office of Herbert Smith Freehills. She has extensive knowledge of energy regulatory matters (including TPA exemption, REMIT, MiFID, EMIR, MAR, unbundling, FDI etc.), industry contracts (EPC and O&M contracts, drilling contracts, LNG and natural gas sale agreements, power purchase agreements, storage agreements, transportation agreements, regasification contracts, general terms of supply to final customers, energy efficiency contracts etc.), M&A and in the development of power projects (both from conventional and renewable sources and merchant lines) and gas infrastructures (LNG regasification terminals, gas storages, pipelines). She also advises on competition matters, including merger control, horizontal and vertical agreements, abuses of dominant position, state aids and on consumers’ protection law. She is recognised as one of the leading experts in Italy in the energy sector by various publications such as Chambers (Up and Coming), Legal500 (Leading Individual), Who’s Who Legal Energy, LegalCommunity, TopLegal and Class Editori. Francesca has been recognised as "Energy Lawyer of the Year" in the ranking of Forty-under-40 by LegalCommunity, a leading legal publication in Italy and "Lawyer of the Year - Renewables" in the fifth annual Top Legal Industry Awards in Italy.
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The Consiglio di Stato (the Italian Supreme Administrative Court) has upheld the decision of the Italian Competition Authority ("ICA"), and confirmed the existence of price fixing and market sharing cartels concerning the production and marketing of corrugated cardboard packaging. The (...)
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On 23 March 2021, the Italian Competition Authority (Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato, “ICA” or the “Authority”), in its consulting role for the Government in the context of the enactment of the annual competition law, issued a series of proposals for reforms. The result is a (...)
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On 18 March 2021, the Italian Administrative Highest Court (Consiglio di Stato) referred a case to the CJEU for a preliminary ruling regarding a request for revocation of its judgment with regard an antitrust infringement by Novartis-Roche. The CJEU has been asked to rule on whether the (...)
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On 15 September 2020, the Italian Competition Authority (“ICA”) found that four taxi firms had entered into an agreement having as its object the prevention of competition by app providers in Naples. Due to the seriousness of the breach of Article 101 TFEU, a request by the parties that a (...)
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On 3 August 2007, the Italian Antitrust Authority ("IAA") closed proceedings initiated against three telecom companies (Tim, Vodafone and Wind) with a decision which affirmed important principles in Italian procedural competition law. There is, however, room for debate as to whether the (...)
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The energy company ENI, the former legal monopolist in the natural gas market, has been involved in a number of competition cases before the Italian Competition Authority (ICA) in the recent past. The most recent proceedings were closed in March 2007, without the breach having been assessed, (...)
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The new legislation Last July, the Italian Government issued legislation (Law Decree of 4 July 2006, named the Bersani Decree after its promoter) which, inter alia, gave the Italian Antitrust Authority (IAA) the power to impose interim measures. In particular, the Bersani Decree amended (...)
