Francesco Tognato is a trainee at the EU Court of Justice, Luxembourg. Before now, he was an associate at Portolano Cavallo. In 2021 he earned a law degree from the University of Milan with a European Union competition law thesis titled “The Google Saga and What It Teaches about Implementing and Developing Regulation of Abuse of Dominant Position.” He works with Italian and foreign companies in the areas of intellectual property and antitrust, both in court and out. During his university career he spent a semester in the law department at the Université Reims Champagne – Ardenne, in France. Francesco participated in the twenty-seventh Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot. He is currently a junior coach for the University of Milan team. In 2020, he worked with the Centre of Research on European and Transnational Dispute Settlement of the University of Milan.
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On May 10, 2022, the European Commission (“Commission”) adopted Regulation 2022/720, i.e., the new Vertical Block Exemption Regulation (“New VBER”), together with the new Vertical Guidelines (“New Guidelines”), both of which will enter into force on June 1, 2022. The new VBER concludes the (...)
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On December 9, 2021, the Italian competition authority (the “ICA” or “AGCM”) has levied its highest ever administrative fine—€1.128 billion—on Amazon Europe Core S.à r.l., Amazon Services Europe S.à .r.l., Amazon EU S.à r.l., Amazon Italia Services S.r.l., and Amazon Italia Logistica S.r.l. (...)
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On November 12, the European Commission (“Commission”) fined automotive manufacturers—namely Daimler, BMW, and the Volkswagen Group (collectively, the “Undertakings”)—for a total amount of EUR 875,189,000 for breach of Article 101(1) of the Treaty of Functioning of the European Union (“TFEU”) (...)
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On October 6, 2021, the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union (the “ECJ” or “Court”) issued a long-awaited decision in case C-882/19, Sumal SL (“Sumal”) v Mercedes Benz Trucks España SL (“MBTE”). The judgment shed light on whether, under EU competition law, the victim of (...)
