Simone Gambuto

POSITION

Partner

LOCATION

Piazza di Pietra, 26 00186 Roma

FAX

+39 06 69518333

E-MAIL

s.gambuto@nmlex.it

TEL

+39 06 695181

Simone Gambuto’s practice focuses on Competition, Regulatory, Public Procurement and Consumer Law. He assists companies in various industrial sectors in Foreign Direct Investment investigations; merger filings; 101 tfeu, 102 tfeu and consumer protection’s investigations before the Italian Competition Authority (AGCM) and the EU Commission; in proceedings before the Communications Regulator (AGCOM) and Transport Regulator (ART), and in the related litigations, as well as before the Civil Courts, in competition stand-alone and follow-on actions. He also aids with Compliance and Antitrust Self-Cleaning Programs and advices on cooperation, distribution, joint venture and license agreements.

Simone Gambuto joined Nunziante Magrone in 2021.

Practice Areas

Competition law.

Languages

Italian, French, English

Awards and Appointments

2020 – 2018 WHO’S WHO – Global Competition Review (GCR)
Italy’s highest-ranking lawyers; Italy’s world’s leading Italian lawyers; Competition 2018 Partner’s list

2017 – CHAMBERS EUROPE
“Simone focuses on the insurance, telecommunications and pharmaceuticals sectors”. Sources highlight his “sound pragmatism and impressive knowledge of the law.”

WHO’S WHO – Future Leaders
Partner Analysis

2016 – LEGAL 500
EU and competition Partner Simone Gambuto “demonstrates great commitment”, “provides pragmatic advice” and has particular experience in the transport sector: among other matters, the team continues to represent Ryanair in contentious antitrust proceedings. Simone Gambuto is the name to note”

CHAMBERS EUROPE
Sources say: “Simone is always available and able to manage any issue related to antitrust, from contracts to litigation.” He often advises on the insurance, telecommunications and pharmaceutical markets.

2015 – CHAMBERS EUROPE
Sources say: “Simone Gambuto is well known in the market for handling unfair commercial practice and competition cases, and for his knowledge of the railway transportation sector in particular. He receives overwhelming praise from clients: ‘His support is always extremely efficient as he is a resolute and decisive player who understands the complex mechanisms that govern investigations and proceedings with the antitrust authorities’”.

Simone has lectured Competition Law and Antitrust Law & Economics extensively and in particular at Chigago-Kent College of Law, University of Turin – School of Law, University La Sapienza of Rome- School of Law, LUISS Guido Carli di Roma, School of Law.

Bar Associations

2004 – Rome Bar Association
Admitted to plea before the Supreme Court of Cassation and Upper Courts.

Associations

International Bar Association (IBA)
European Competition Lawyer Association (ECLA)

Education

2008-2010 – Post-Doc Research Fellow at the Institute for Economic Analysis and Studies (ISAE)
Visiting Research Fellow, British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL)
2006 – Ph.D. in Law & Economics from the University of Siena, School of Economics
2003 – Master (LL.M) in Commercial and Corporate Law, with merit from the King’s College in London
1998 – Degree in Law (JD) University La Sapienza of Rome.

Publications

2021: “Le Esenzioni” and “La tutela del consumatore nell’ordinamento comunitario”, in ‘Diritto Antitrust’, edited by Antonio Catricala’, Carlo Edoardo Cazzato, Francesco Fimmano’ – Giuffrè Francis Lefebvre
2019: “Algorithms, big data and tacit collusion new challenges for competition law”, in ‘Antitrust between EU Law and national law’, by Simone Gambuto – Bruylant