Gian Luca is a partner with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer based in the firm’s Rome office and has been a member of the antitrust practice since 2001. Gian Luca spent 2000-2001 on secondment in the antitrust department of Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz in New York. He was elected to the partnership in 2005 and his main practice areas cover the whole range of antitrust issues from EU, Italian and international merger control, to horizontal and vertical agreements and cartel investigations, both at EU and Italian level, as well as state aid. He has substantive media and communications experience. Before joining the firm Gian Luca was with the Italian Antitrust Authority, where he worked as officer and case handler dealing with television and radio broadcasting and transportation markets. Gian Luca has represented the Italian Antitrust Authority in hearings for communication, sports and transportation cases pending before the European Commission and has acted as co-rapporteur during EU advisory committees (mergers, cartels and dominance cases) to the Commission. He published articles on antitrust matters both in international and Italian law journals. Gian Luca graduated cum laude from the University of Bologna in 1992. In 1995 Gian Luca was granted an LLM by the University of London, Queen Mary and Westfield College (EC competition law), and in 2000 received an LLM from the Law School of Columbia University (antitrust/law and economics). He was admitted to the bar in Italy in 1995 and in New York in 2003. Gian Luca speaks Italian and English.
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As anticipated in one of our previous blog posts, the “2021 Competition Law”, enacted in August 2022, granted the Italian Antitrust Authority ( IAA ) a new power to request undertakings to notify concentrations falling below the turnover thresholds which trigger a merger filing obligation. The (...)
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The General Court has given eight judgments on a Commission fining decision concerning patent settlements entered into by Servier and five competitor producers of generic drugs, reducing the fines from a total of € 428 million to € 315 million. The Court broadly upheld the fines based on Article (...)
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Legislative Decree no. 3/2017 (“Decree”) enters into force today, implementing in Italy Directive no. 2014/104 / EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 November 2014, which sets the rules governing actions for damages caused by infringements of EU and national competition law. (...)
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On 27 March 2009, the Italian Antitrust Authority (IAA) conditionally cleared the acquisition of SI Holding (SI), the financial holding company controlling the CartaSì Group, by Istituto Centrale delle Banche Popolari Italiane (ICBPI). Both SI and ICBPI are controlled by Italian banks, which (...)
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ADR (Rome) and SEA (Milan) have been fined for overcharging competitors for refuelling services; ADR has also been fined for excessive prices for access services to Fiumicino’s cargo infrastructures and office space, while SEA has been sanctioned for excessive charges for the provision of common (...)
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The Italian Antitrust Authority (the IAA) has recently opened a second-phase investigation in relation to the transaction through which Monte dei Paschi di Siena (MPS) will acquire Banca Antonveneta (Antonveneta). Antonveneta is the bank which in 2005/2006 was the subject of the hard-fought (...)
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On 18 September 2007 the Italian Antitrust Authority (IAA) decided to authorize the merger between Unicredito Italiano S.p.A (also Unicredit) and Capitalia S.p.A. (Capitalia) (collectively as the Parties), subject to a number of structural and behavioural remedies. The transaction, through (...)
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On 18 September 2007, the Italian Antitrust Authority (IAA) opened an investigation under Article 82 of the EC Treaty against Ferrovie dello Stato S.p.A. (FS) and its subsidiary Rete Ferroviaria Italiana S.p.A. (RFI). RFI is the railway infrastructure monopolist as it is the sole operator, (...)
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Following the change of competences occurred in 2006, which granted to the Italian Antitrust Authority (IAA) full jurisdiction over the banking sector, the Italian competition watchdog continues to strictly scrutinize the consolidation process affecting financial and credit institutions in (...)
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At the end of January 2007, the Italian Antitrust Authority (IAA) launched an investigation under Article 81 of the EC Treaty against nine oil companies, alleging the existence of a price coordination mechanism in the Italian roadside petrol market. The undertakings involved include market (...)
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On October 6, 2006 Banca IntesaSpa (Intesa) and SanpaoloIMI Spa (Sanpaolo), two of the main Italian listed banks, submitted to the Italian Antitrust Authority (IAA) the merger by incorporation of Sanpaolo with and into Intesa (the Merger). The Merger, that was cleared with conditions after a (...)
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On 14 December 2006, the Italian Antitrust Authority (IAA) has initiated two formal investigations on the market for the management of airport infrastructures in relation to the airports of Rome and Milan. Following a complaint by IBAR, the association representing the air carriers active in (...)
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On 6 November 2006, the Italian Supreme Administrative Court (Consiglio di stato) endorsed findings that ENI, the vertically integrated Italian gas incumbent, had failed to comply with the Italian Antitrust Authority (IAA) 2002 decision (Blugas-Snam)whereby ENI was found to have hampered the (...)
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The Italian Antitrust Authority (IAA) has recently completed an Article 81 proceedings against nine suppliers of antiseptic and disinfectants to the public health system levying sanctions totalling approximately € 3.7 million (case I 639). The investigation started in November 2004 and (...)
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On 8 February 2006, the Italian Antitrust Authority (IAA) closed a one-year long Article 82 investigation in relation to Glaxo refusal to grant a production license to FIS (Fabbrica Italiana Sintetici), for manufacturing in Italy an active compound essential for the production of triptans (...)
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On 14 December 2005, the Italian Antitrust Authority (“IAA”) opened proceedings under Article 82 EC Treaty - as well as under the correspondent national provision - against RDB S.p.A. (“RDB”) and its controlled company RDB Hebel S.p.A. (“RDBH”), for an alleged abuse of dominant position in the (...)
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The Italian competition authority (“Authority”) recently issued an interim decision against Merck & Co Inc (“Merck”) obliging it to license the manufacture of antibiotic Imipenem Cilastatina, the active ingredient in the manufacture of Carbapenemens. This decision is very interesting from an (...)
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