Luciano Di Via joined Clifford Chance in 2013. He is the head of the Italian antitrust practice and is considered one of the primary experts in antitrust in Italy. Luciano Di Via splits his time between Rome and Brussels and has more than 20 years’ experience specialising in all aspects of EU and Italian antitrust law, including merger control, cartels, abuse of market power and market investigations/sector inquires. Luciano Di Via works across a wide range of sectors, including food and beverage, retail, insurance, energy and telecommunications. He is also Co-Chair of the ICC Task Force on Cartels and Leniency. Before joining Clifford Chance in 2013, Luciano Di Via spent 10 years at the Italian Competition Authority, for two of which he was the ICA’s seconded national expert at the European Commission’s Directorate General of Competition. During his time with the ICA, among other activities, he led teams conducting dawn raids at company premises.
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The Italian government has (finally) introduced a prenotification procedure in the Italian investment screening mechanism, which allows companies to obtain a preliminary assessment on the applicability of the Italian Golden Power regulation to proposed transactions Background The Italian (...)
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Italy now has legislation allowing legal actions to seek compensation for damages caused by violations of anti-competition law, starting from 3 February 2017 when Legislative Decree no. 3 of 19 January 2017 ("Decree") will come into force. The Decree implements Directive 2014/104/UE and (...)
