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Veronica Pinotti is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery Studio Legale Associato, based in its Rome office. She is head of the Italian Competition group, where her practice focuses on advising Italian and international clients on a wide range of legal issues relating to competition, including merger control, distribution, cartels and abuse of dominance before the Italian Competition Authority and the European Commission. She also advises on price fixing, unfair competition practices and misleading advertising as well as acquisitions and divestures by international groups including hotel management companies.
Veronica assists clients active in many industry sectors and regularly advises on real estate transactions, which are subject to mandatory notification under Italian merger control rules.
Before joining McDermott Will & Emery, Veronica was head of the Italian Competition and EU law group of a leading international law firm. Prior to moving into private practice, Veronica trained in the Directorate-General in charge for competition and merger control at the European Commission, and worked for many years as a senior solicitor in London and Brussels.
Veronica regularly writes articles and speaks at conferences on competition law. She also lectures at the “Master in Antitrust e Regolazione dei Mercati – Economia della Concorrenza e Regolazione delle Public Utilities” at the University of Rome Tor Vergata.
Veronica is recommended by Global Competition Review’s 2007 country survey on Italy, and the 2007 edition of Legal 500. She is admitted to the Italian Bar (2004), to The Law Society of England and Wales (2000), and to the Belgium Bar (1997).
Representative Experience
- Assisting two leading worldwide companies operating in the medical devices sector, in filing oppositions with the European Commission to the merger between Boston Scientific, Guidant and Abbott.
- Advising major international beer manufacturers on potential complex acquisitions.
- Regular advice to a major banking group on their competition issues in relation to joint ventures and agreements in the financial services sector.
- Assisting Advent Corporation private equity funds in the notification of their acquisitions to the competition authorities.
- Representing Mitsubishi on the application of the Italian implementing legislation of European directives.
- Advising a multinational company active in the rolling stock sector in relation to competition issues arising from a contractual joint venture with a major competitor in Italy.
- Assisting a leading chemical company in the merger control procedure before the European Commission, for the acquisition of a major competitor, in one of the few cases of referral ex Article 22 Regulation EC 139/2004.
- Advising a major pharmaceutical company in relation to competition law issues arising from licence and distribution agreements.
- Advising Norsk Hydro in the EC and international notifications of the acquisition of VAW Aluminium to the European Commission.
Education
- University of Turin Faculty of Jurisprudence, 1995
- University of Lyon Faculty of Law, 1993
Languages Spoken
- English
- French
- Italian
- Spanish
