Roberto Amore was appointed member of the Recovery & Resilience Task Force in April 2021. He previousely was case handler at the DG COMP. As independent lawyer based in Milan and Rome from 2014 to 2016, his main practice areas were antitrust/competition law, EU law, administrative law, regulatory law, and consumer protection. He has experience in various industries, such as energy and natural resources, infrastructures and transport, automotive, media, telecommunications, IT, chemical and healthcare, pharmaceutical, consumer products and retail. Roberto was an associate in the Antitrust, Competition and Trade Department in Freshfield’s Rome office between 2008 and 2014. Before joining Freshfields, he practiced in the EU & Competition Department at SJ Berwin, focusing in particular on Italian and EU merger control and abuse of dominance cases, and in the Corporate Department at Clifford Chance, where he was involved in various international transactions, including mergers and acquisitions and IPOs. From 2005 to 2006 he was a research fellow at the American Antitrust Institute (AAI) in Washington D.C.; in this capacity, he focused on ’single firm conduct’ cases, collective dominance and cartels. Roberto holds a J.D. from the University of Milan, Italy, an LL.M in Law & Economics from the George Mason University School of Law, VA and was a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Boalt Hall). Roberto is a member of the Bars in Italy and New York (USA). He is a native Italian speaker and is fluent in English.
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On 5 March 2009, the Italian Antitrust Authority (IAA) initiated an investigation in relation to the possible abuse of dominant position allegedly carried out by Saint-Gobain Ppc Italia S.p.A. (Saint-Gobain) in the Italian plasterboards market. Saint-Gobain is part of a large multinational (...)
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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 (...)
