With over ten years of professional experience in the UK and Italy, Roberto is an expert in the field of competition economics, and has significant expertise in state aid and quantification of follow-on antitrust damages. He has acquired a strong reputation for his work on a number of high-profile cases on behalf of private and public sector clients, including competition authorities and sector regulators. These range from cartel and abuse of dominance cases to state aid, litigation, mergers, and retrospective evaluation of policy decisions. During his professional career, Roberto has provided economic advice across a wide range of sectors, including communications, energy, financial services, food and drink, healthcare, life sciences, public infrastructure and transport, among others. Before joining Oxera, Roberto worked for one of the Big Four consulting firms in London, at the UK Office of Fair Trading (the predecessor of the Competition and Markets Authority), and for an Italian economics consultancy.
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On 8 May 2020, the European Commission introduced new state aid rules to tackle the effects of the crisis by extending the Temporary state aid Framework. Under specific conditions, member states can provide aid in the form of subordinated debt, hybrid capital and equity in line with state aid (...)
