Cristoforo Osti > Chiomenti > Rome, Italy > Lawyer Profile
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00187 ROME
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Cristoforo Osti
Work Department
Partner - EU Law and Antitrust
Position
Cristoforo focuses on EU and Italian Competition (Antitrust) Law. He advises many leading Italian and multinational corporations in high-profile matters before the Italian Competition Authority and the European Commission. He conducts a significant amount of disputes before civil and administrative courts and before the Court of Justice of the European Union on issues related to competition law, unfair business practices and abuse of economic dependence. He has experience in the field of state aid and is regularly involved in the development and management of antitrust compliance and auditing programs.
He is a professor of Business Law at the Law School of the University of Salento in Lecce; he was Unicredit Visiting Professor for European Legal Studies at Columbia School of Law in New York in 2015, where he taught a course on Global Competition Law and a seminar on the theories of competition law.
Career
Cristoforo joined the firm as partner in 2012. Since 2018 he is the head of the Antitrust department. From 1999 to 2012 he was a partner at Clifford Chance LLP, where he was the head of the Competition Law and Regulatory Department for Italian offices. Since 1995 he held the same position with a leading Italian law firm.
Languages
Italian, English, French, German
Memberships
Member of the Rome Bar (Italy), 1986
Admitted to New York State Bar, 1987
Admitted to practice before the Supreme Court, Italy, 2005
Member of the ABA (American Bar Association) – Antitrust Section
Lawyer Rankings
Italy > EU and competition law
(Hall of Fame)Chiomenti’s team of experienced practitioners provides comprehensive assistance in both national and EU competition law matters, spanning abuses of dominant position, cartels, and merger notification cases before the Italian Competition Authority and the EU Commission. Here is litigation specialist Marco Serpone the key contact. State aid proceedings, public procurement and concessions also belong to the team’s expertise, and represent Guido Bellitti’s practice focus. Further core workflows include assisting clients in disputes before civil and administrative courts on issues related to unfair business practices and abuse of economic dependence; an area in which EU and Italian competition law specialist Cristoforo Osti
and Alessandra Prastaro are particularly active. Gian Michele Roberti is noted for his expertise in advising multinational groups and industrial and professional associations spanning the manufacture, banking, maritime, rail, and air transport sectors on both national and EU-level proceedings, while Patrick Actis Perinetto focuses on the pharmaceutical sector.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Administrative and public law
- Banking and finance: Bank regulatory
- Banking and finance: Borrower side
- Banking and finance: lender or arranger side
- Capital markets: Equity
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution
- EU and competition law
- Industry focus: Energy
- Industry focus: Luxury goods
- Industry focus: Retail
- Private equity
- Real estate and construction
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Tax