Francesca Maria Moretti
Biography
Overview
Francesca Maria Moretti is an Italian qualified lawyer with over 30 years of experience in competition and regulatory law. She represents companies in proceedings concerning antitrust law violations and regulatory law issues both in Italy before the competent authorities and at EU level before the European institutions. She is a full-fledged antitrust litigator with a long-lasting practice before Italian and EU courts.
Francesca regularly assists Italian and international clients operating in a broad range of industry sectors, including construction materials, chemicals and pharmaceuticals, aviation, entertainment, vending, media, telecommunications and digital markets. She advises companies on a wide range of antitrust law issues, such as mergers and acquisitions, compliance programs and internal audits, stand-alone and follow-on actions for damages, antitrust issues in public tenders, distribution and agency agreements, investigations (including dawn raids) within the framework of cartel cases (Including applications for leniency) and abuse of dominance cases, ESG and sustainability issues within the framework of competition law, as well as on unfair competition practices and consumer protection. Francesca also handles notifications under the Italian Foreign Direct Investments' regime and under the EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation. Francesca cooperates with Universities in Milan and Rome on antitrust law seminars and lectures. She is a widely published author of articles and a contributor to books on antitrust law issues. She is a co-founder of Concorrenze, an Italian association of antitrust law experts, and of LexGreen, a blog on antitrust law and sustainability.
Experience
Antitrust and Litigation
Biogen's alleged anticompetitive agreement
Francesca advised Biogen in connection with an alleged anticompetitive anti-competitive agreement in violation of art. 101 TFEU concerning the delayed market entry in Italy of a biosimilar drug.*
Amazon's preliminary ruling proceeding
Francesca advised Amazon in connection with a preliminary ruling proceeding before the EU Court of Justice.*
GE Healthcare alleged violation of art. 101 TFEU
Francesca advised GE Healthcare in connection with a case before the Italian antitrust authority for an alleged violation of art. 101 TFEU in the radio-pharmaceutical market.*
Medigas and Magaldi's cartel investigation
Francesca advised Medigas S.r.l. and Magaldi S.r.l. in connection with all phases of the Italian cartel investigation in the home-oxygen and ventilation therapy, including – besides the appeals before the administrative courts – the proceedings before the Italian Supreme Court and the Supreme Administrative Court for revocation of the previous judgement.*
Air Corporate and AIRI's cartel investigation
Francesca advised Air Corporate S.r.l. and AIRI S.p.A. in connection with all phases of the Italian cartel investigation concerning helicopter services, including the appeal before the administrative courts.*
Sirap Gema and Italmobiliare's EU cartel investigation
Francesca advised Sirap Gema S.p.A. and Italmobiliare S.p.A. in connection with all phases of the EU cartel investigation in the Retail Food Packaging proceeding, including the appeals before the EU Courts and follow-on actions for damages.*
Italcementi's EU cartel investigation
Francesca advised Italcementi S.p.A. in connection with all phases of the EU cartel investigation in the Cement cartel proceeding, including the appeals before the EU Courts.*
Pirelli's EU cartel investigation
Francesca advised Pirelli S.p.A. in connection with all phases of the EU cartel investigation in the Submarine Cables cartel proceeding, including the appeals before the EU Courts and the so-called "Italian torpedo" litigation before the Milan Court.*
Versalis' EU cartel investigation
Francesca advised Versalis S.p.A. in connection with all phases of the EU cartel investigation in the Synthetic Rubbers proceedings, including the appeals before the EU Courts.*
Tenaris' EU cartel investigation
Francesca advised Tenaris S.p.A. (Dalmine S.p.A.) in connection with all phases of the EU cartel investigation in the Seamless Tubes proceeding, including the appeals before the EU Courts.*
Merger control
EU merger control aspects of BNPP Cardif's acquisition of BCC Vita
Francesca advised BNPP Cardif in connection with the acquisition of BCC Vita S.p.A. under EU merger control rules.*
Merger control aspects of the Praxair-Linde merger
Francesca advised SIAD S.p.A. in connection with the divestiture process requested by the EU Commission in the framework of the Praxair-Linde merger.*
Merger control aspects of Italcementi's acquisition of Cementir Italia
Francesca advised Italcementi S.p.A. in connection with the acquisition of the Cementir Italia S.p.A. under Italian merger control rules.*
EU merger control aspects of the Dow-DuPont merger
Francesca advised Dow Chemicals in connection with the Dow-DuPont merger under EU merger control rules.*
*Francesca worked on these matters prior to joining White & Case.
