Competition & Market Regulation

Competition law and market regulation increasingly set the boundaries of what payment and technology companies can do — from the Digital Markets Act opening access to mobile ecosystems, to interchange fee regulation, to antitrust scrutiny of platforms, schemes and joint ventures.

Our competition practice is built on distinctive foundations: experience at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition and at leading international firms in Brussels, combined with two decades of advisory and contentious work before the Italian Competition Authority and the EU institutions.

What we do

• Antitrust advice under EU and Italian law, with a particular focus on payments, fintech and digital markets.
• Representation in investigations and in-depth proceedings before the Italian Competition Authority and the European Commission.
• Digital Markets Act: gatekeeper obligations, access questions and their payments-specific implications.
• Interchange fees and the IFR: compliance, commercial-law issues and disputes.
• Appeals and contentious proceedings before Italian and EU courts.
• Competition aspects of cooperation agreements, schemes and joint ventures in regulated industries.

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