Chiomenti

Cristoforo Osti

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.

Patrick Actis Perinetto

Patrick advises leading Italian and multinational companies on European Union Law, national and European competition law and on various matters before the Italian Competition Authority and the European Commission including: vertical agreements, horizontal agreements and concerted practices, abuse of dominant position, and fundamental freedoms. Patrick frequently advises companies in the pharmaceutical sector and has gained profound knowledge of the industry’s characteristics and competitive dynamics. Over the years, he has advised various companies operating in the telecommunications and media sectors. In his practice he has often participated in the development and execution of antitrust compliance and audit programmes. Thanks to a deep understanding of Administrative Law, Patrick advises his clients on matters concerning regulatory law, litigation, competition law, and European Union law before the administrative and civil courts.

Alessandra Prastaro

Alessandra specialises in national and EU competition law (collusion, abuse of dominant position). She has experience in competition law enforcement programmes, state aid, unfair commercial practices, unfair competition, and abuse of economic dependence. Alessandra regularly advises leading national and international companies and financial institutions on complex legal matters. She is involved in EU and national level litigation before Italian civil and administrative courts, and European courts.

Guido Bellitti

Guido mainly deals with EU Law, with a specific focus on EU and national competition law. His practice includes State aids, Internal Market, public procurement and concessions, environmental and consumer law, as well as EU sectorial regulations concerning inter alia media, electronic communications, energy and transport. In the aforementioned sectors, Guido advised several companies on EU and national matters, also representing them in connection with proceedings before the EU Commission (regarding cartels, abuse of dominance and merger control), in judicial proceedings before the Court of Justice and the General Court of the EU, as well as - at the national level - before ordinary and administrative courts and the independent regulatory authorities (namely Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato, Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni).

Gian Michele Roberti

Gian Michele assists private and public companies, State administration and EU institutions, with particular focus in proceedings before European Commission, EU jurisdictions (Court of First Instance and European Court of Justice), and, at national level, in proceedings before ordinary and administrative courts, Regulatory and Supervisory authorities (Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato, Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni). He has developed a specific expertise in a number of industrial sectors (manufacture industry; banking and financial services; maritime, rail and air transport; logistic and postal services; electronic communications; broadcasting and audio-visual; energy), where it has provided a wide range of services to top-tier companies, including multinational groups and industrial and professional associations.