Chiomenti

Senior Of Counsel - EU Law and Antitrust

Cristoforo focuses on national and EU competition law (Antitrust). He assists many leading Italian and multinational companies in high-profile matters before the Italian Antitrust Authority and the European Commission. He conducts significant litigation before Italian civil and administrative courts and before the Court of Justice of the European Union on issues relating to competition law, unfair commercial 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 audit programmes. 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.

Cristoforo joined the firm in 2012 and is currently Senior Of Counsel. From 2012 to 2024 he was a partner and head of the firm's Competition Law department. From 1999 to 2012 he was a partner at Clifford Chance LLP, where he was head of the Competition Law and Regulation department for the Italian offices. From 1995 he held the same position at a major Italian law firm.

Italian, English, French, German

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

Gratuated in Law, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy, 1981

LL.M. University of Michigan, United States, 1985