Amato, Filippo

Current Employment Position(s)

Associate

Languages

• English
• French
• Italian
• Spanish

Lawyer Overview

Filippo Amato has extensive EC competition law, public enforcement, and litigation experience in various industries, including chemicals, automotive, media, agriculture, sport, and services.

Before joining Jones Day, Filippo served for seven years as an official of the European Institutions. While at the European Commission, Filippo worked for more than two years at the Directorate General for Competition, where he dealt with a number of merger and antitrust cases, and for three years at the Commission's Legal Service, where he advised the Commission on cartel and merger cases and was involved in more than 40 court proceedings before the Court of First Instance and the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg. Between 2002 and 2003 he was seconded to the Court of Justice (at the cabinet of former Advocate General Antonio Tizzano) and during this time was involved with various issues pertaining to the interpretation of European law.

Filippo regularly delivers speeches and publishes articles on EC competition law.

Areas of Practice

• Antitrust & Competition Law

Representative Cases

• Altimo and Telenor sign a $23.8 billion deal to create one of the largest emerging markets mobile operators , (2009)
• Parker Hannifin responds to EC antitrust investigation of marine hose manufacturers , (2009)

West Practice Categories

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Antitrust Law, Business & Commercial Law, Deceptive Trade Practices, International Antitrust, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, RICO Act, Trade Regulation, Unfair Competition

Bar Admissions

• Italy

Education

• College of Europe
• Columbia University - New York
• U di Torino - Italy

Published Works

• Antitrust Alert: New EU Commissioner Designated for Competition Policy, 2009
• Antitrust Alert: European Commission launches consultation on draft revised rules and guidance on vertical restraints, 2009
• EC competition law and joint ventures, International Joint Ventures, Comparative Law Yearbook of International Business, 2008 Special Issue, Kluwer Law International, 2009
• Antitrust Alert: European Commission Issues Long Awaited Guidance on Abuse of Dominant Position, 2008
• Antitrust Alert: European Commission Clears Bank Rescue Packages Under State Aid Rules, 2008
• I nuovi orientamenti della Commissione in materia di ammende per violazioni del diritto della concorrenza, Il Diritto dell’Unione Europea, 2/2007, p. 239, 2007
• Comment to Articles 82 and 86 of the EC Treaty, Smith & Herzog on the Law of the European Union, LexisNexis, 2006
• Commento agli articoli 81 e 82 Trattato CE, Commentario ai Trattati CE e UE, p. 518-552, Giuffrè Editore, 2004, 2004
• International Antitrust: What Future?, World Competition, Vol. 24(4), 2001, p. 451, 2001
• The Reform of the European Competition Policy Concerning Vertical Restraints, The Antitrust Law Journal, Vol. 69, No 1, 2001, p. 147, 2001

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