Our Team
Andrea De Matteis
Founding Partner
Andrea De Matteis is the founding partner of De Matteis Law. He advises leading international payment companies on complex EU regulatory questions and represents clients in competition and regulatory proceedings before Italian and EU authorities. He has practised since 1996 and spent ten years in Brussels, including at Linklaters, the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition and WilmerHale. Before founding the firm, he led the antitrust team of a major Italian banking and corporate law firm. His work combines legal analysis, policy strategy and advocacy on issues shaping the European payments market.
AREAS OF EXPERIENCE
- PSD3/PSR and strong customer authentication
- Agentic commerce, digital identity and the EUDI Wallet
- MiCA, DORA, the digital euro and instant payments
- EU competition law and the Digital Markets Act
EDUCATION
- LL.M., New York University School of Law (1996)
- J.D., summa cum laude, University of Florence (1995)
LANGUAGES
Italian (native), English, French and Spanish
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SELECTED WORK
- The Agentic Commerce Opportunity and its Regulatory Compliance
- Regulating central bank digital currencies
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