Marianna Meriani is a counsel at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, based in London. She assists clients in connection with European and Italian competition law issues in merger control and antitrust proceedings before the European Commission (EC), before the Italian Competition Authority and in ensuing litigation before the European courts and the Italian administrative and civil courts. She has developed a broad experience in advising clients in foreign direct investment assessments at the European and national level and represents clients in the screening proceedings before the Italian government. Marianna has been named “Lawyer of the year 2020 – EU & Competition” in the Forty Under 40 award by the leading Italian legal publication Legal Community, in which she has been praised for her role as a “key figure of the antitrust team of the Italian offices” who “managed the antitrust aspects of some of the most important Italian M&A deals, with a particular focus on the large-scale retail and private security sectors". Prior to joining Akin, Marianna worked for another leading international law firm in Italy. She also gained considerable experience in antitrust and administrative law issues at the Attorney General’s Office in Rome.
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Brief summary of facts In case No. A377 - SEA-Tariffe aeroportuali, decided in November 2008, the Italian Competition Authority (ICA) fined SEA, the company operating the two airports of the city of Milan (namely, Linate and Malpensa), for an abuse of dominance consisting in the application (...)
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This article has been nominated for the 2019 Antitrust Writing Awards. Click here to learn more about the Antitrust Writing Awards. On January 24, 2018, the European Commission announced that it had fined Qualcomm EUR 997,439,000. The Commission thinks that Qualcomm had abused its dominant (...)
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Brief summary of facts In case A431 - Ratiopharm/Pfizer, decided in January 2012, the ICA found that Pfizer had abused of its dominant position in the market for drugs based on prostaglandin analogues by putting in place a strategy aimed at artificially prolonging the patent protection for (...)
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Brief summary of facts In case A357 - Tele2/TIM-Vodafone-Wind, opened in February 2005, the ICA alleged that mobile phone operators Telecom Italia, Wind and Vodafone had each abused of their dominant position on the wholesale markets for termination services on their respective networks by (...)
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Brief summary of facts In 2007, 52 wholesale fruit and vegetable traders operating at the Rome-Guidonia agri-food wholesale market (the "Market") filed a stand-alone action against Cargest, i.e. the company managing the Market and leasing the space to the traders. Claimants alleged that (...)
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Brief summary of facts See above under judgment No. 3011/2018 of the Court of Milan for a description of the ICA’s abuse of dominance decision against SEA in case A377 - SEA-Tariffe aeroportuali. Following the ICA’s decision, in 2011, claimants, which leased from SEA office spaces at the (...)
