Partner - EU Law and Antitrust

Cristoforo focuses on EU and Italian Competition (Antitrust) Law. He advises many leading Italian and multinational corporations in high-profile matters before the Italian Competition Authority and the European Commission. He conducts a significant amount of disputes before civil and administrative courts and before the Court of Justice of the European Union on issues related to competition law, unfair business practices and abuse of economic dependence. He has experience in the field of state aid and is regularly involved in the development and management of antitrust compliance and auditing programs.

He is a professor of Business Law at the Law School of the University of Salento in Lecce; he was Unicredit Visiting Professor for European Legal Studies at Columbia School of Law in New York in 2015, where he taught a course on Global Competition Law and a seminar on the theories of competition law.

Cristoforo joined the firm as partner in 2012. Since 2018 he is the head of the Antitrust department. From 1999 to 2012 he was a partner at Clifford Chance LLP, where he was the head of the Competition Law and Regulatory Department for Italian offices. Since 1995 he held the same position with a leading Italian law firm.

Italian, English, French, German

Member of the Rome Bar (Italy), 1986

Admitted to New York State Bar, 1987

Admitted to practice before the Supreme Court, Italy, 2005

Member of the ABA (American Bar Association) - Antitrust Section