The Presidents of the Senate and Chamber, Ignazio La Russa and Lorenzo Fontana, have today appointed lawyer Saverio Valentino as President of the Competition and Market Authority. Valentino has been a member of the Authority since June 13, 2023. Before his appointment, he mainly dealt with Italian and European competition law, representing cases before the courts of the European Union, Italian administrative and civil courts, as well as the European Commission, the Competition Authority, and other competition authorities in various countries around the world.
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He graduated with honors in law from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” in 1995. He obtained a Master in European Community Law (LL.M.) at the College of Europe in Bruges in 1996, as well as a Master of Laws (LL.M.) at the University of Chicago Law School in 2000. He also collaborated for six months with Directorate-General I of the European Commission, in the unit dealing with multilateral trade policies and issues related to the World Trade Organization and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
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He has been registered with the Rome Bar Association since 1999 (qualified to practice before the Supreme Court since 2013) and with the New York Bar Association since 2001. He regularly participates as a speaker at conferences and is the author of various legal publications, including: “AGCM’s new clothes: merger control call-in, market investigations, and other recent reforms of Italian competition law (Italy)”, in Journal of European Competition Law & Practice, 2025; “Le concentrazioni sotto-soglia”, in G. Morbidelli and F. Cintioli (eds.), Function and Object of Antitrust: New and Old Issues (Il Mulino, 2025), “Article 102 TFEU on Prohibition of the Abuse of a Dominant Position” and “Article 106 TFEU on Public Undertakings and Monopolies,” in Smit & Herzog on the Law Of The European Union, (Matthew Bender, 2021).
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