Advises clients on all aspects of European Union (EU) competition law.
Advises on merger control, antitrust issues and regulation in the context of mergers and acquisitions, including cross-border transactions, joint ventures and strategic alliances.
Advises multinationals in cross-border merger control and foreign direct investment (FDI) investigations.

Marcello is an associate in the antitrust & competition practice of the London office.

Marcello advises clients on all aspects of EU competition law and represents them before the European Commission and the Luxembourg and Italian Competition Authorities.

His experience covers several industry sectors including social media, technology and oil & gas.

Prior to joining Akin, Marcello worked for other leading international law firms as an associate in the EU competition law and investment funds departments in Brussels and Luxembourg.

Representative Work

Represented a leading global private equity house on its $4 billion acquisition of a global technology platform, requiring numerous merger approvals globally.
Advised Innovex Downhole Solutions, Inc., a leading provider of mission-critical technologies and services on its merger with Dril-Quip, Inc.
Represented LetterOne in the $11.2 billion reverse takeover of Harbour Energy PLC.
Advised Eagle Bulk Shipping Inc., one of the world’s largest owner-operators within the midsize dry bulk vessel segment, in the completion of its all-stock merger with Star Bulk Carriers Corp.
Advised Coller Capital in Backing of Corsair Capital’s $600 Million GP-led Secondaries Fund.
Advised Intrum in its investment partnership with Cerberus.
Advised Carlyle on its acquisition of Dainese SpA.
Advised BC Partners on its acquisition of the Havea group.
Advised Carlyle on its acquisition of Officine Maccaferri SpA.
Advised a multinational beverage company in an abuse of dominance investigation before the European Commission.
Advised Archroma on its acquisition of a division of Huntsman International.

Advised a diversified trading firm on Italian competition law issues relating to an abuse of dominance investigation within the telecommunication sector.
Assisted Amphenol Corp on its acquisition of Intercables.
Advised Flutter on its acquisition of Sisal SpA.
Assisted an American multinational technology conglomerate on General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) matters.
Advised Norgine in relation to its sale to a US-private equity fund.

List may include matters worked on prior to joining Akin.