• 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.

List may include matters worked on prior to joining Akin.