• Represented a multinational pharmaceutical company in an Article 101 TFEU investigation before the Romanian competition authority for an alleged anticompetitive agreement with competitors and their trade association to set up a lobbying effort aimed at obtaining a change of a fiscal legislation. *

Energy

• Represented a multinational electricity supplier in connection with the establishment of a joint venture to be active in the e-vehicles charging sector. The case involved merger control filings before the EC and before 13 worldwide national competition authorities, including a Phase 2 investigation before the Italian competition authority to which the case was referred under Article 9 EU Merger Regulation (EUMR). *
• Represented a multi-utility company in the merger control filing of its acquisition of the business unit of an incumbent company active in the sale of natural gas to final customers in Italy. *
• Advised a multi-utility company in the merger control aspects of the acquisition of a controlling shareholding in two companies active in the production and sale of power, biogas and heat from renewable sources and the establishment of two newly created companies for biogas production. *

Financial Services

• Advised a financial technology (“fintech”) bank on the merger control aspects of its acquisition of joint control over a competing bank to operate in the open banking sector. *
• Represented an investment fund in its acquisition of an information technology company on the merger control aspects and in the foreign direct investment filing before the Italian government. *

Fast-moving Consumer Goods

• Represented a multinational retail groups in the Phase 2 merger investigation before the Italian Competition Authority of its EUR 15 billion sale of its overall Italian retail stores to a direct competitor. *

Industrial

• Represented a leading Italian private security company in the merger control aspects of its acquisition of one of its closest competitors in the market. *
• Represented a European producer of coloured polyester threads and yarns in the sale of its share capital to a leading competitor. The transaction involved multijurisdictional merger filings in Germany, Austria and Bulgaria. *

Telecom

• Advised a state-owned company in connection with the merger control aspects of the structuring of a potential joint venture with an Italian telecommunication (“telecom”) company to co-manage the single national broadband network in Italy. *

*Matters handled prior to joining Akin Gump.