Competition - Italy

Our competition practice provides highly experienced representation to clients across a broad spectrum of competition issues in the Italian and European markets.   Our legal services include merger notification to the Italian and EU antitrust authorities.  Our lawyers also advise on competition issues related to abuse of dominant position, restrictive agreements, cartels, transactions leading to concentration, price and distribution practices, manufacturing controls and misleading advertising.  We represent clients in all court and other proceedings, especially before the European Commission and Italian Antitrust Authority.

Our full range of EU and Member State competition advice includes:

  • transaction counselling, notification and defence  
  • representation in cartel investigations
  • counselling on pricing and distribution arrangements
  • advising and representing clients in contentious matters, including EU and Member State litigation, arbitration and mediation
  • representing clients in sector enquiries, government investigations and agency complaints

The Italian team works closely with our established EU Competition Group which has 11 partners and spans across all five of our European offices.

Contacts

Italy Client Services

McDermott Will & Emery

McDermott Will and Emery