Gennaro d’Andria

Gennaro d’Andria is the chief executive of Dandria Studio Legale in Rome. His area of practice has been steadily expanding from antitrust and EU law to cover a broad range of commercial issues.He has been involved in major antitrust investi­gations, including an Italian cosmetics cartel; a credit card fee enquiry in the air transport sector; and the merger investigations into Alitalia’s acquisitions of Air One and Windjet.He won the International Law Office Client Choice 2013 Award for Competition based on a survey of senior corporate counsel. Gennaro has also taken the lead on the firm’s main transactional and contentious matters, such as the divestiture of a steel mill, the restructuring of the Italian subsidiary of a foreign high-tech conglomerate, and a multimillion-euro dispute relating to certain industrial supplies of electricity.In 2011, he launched an innovative client extranet designed to allow real-time access to matter-related information, such as deadlines, appointments, documents, billings and even real-time timesheets.Gennaro is a member of the Italian Bar and is admitted to the high courts. He obtained an LLM from King’s College, London and previously practised with some of the leading law firms in Italy, the US, Germany and Austria. In 2004, he trained at the Competition Directorate of the European Commission in Brussels.