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About
Provided by Massimo Merola
Practice Areas
Partner, Massimo Merola specialises in EU law, with specific focus on state aid, litigation before EU courts, including preliminary rulings, customs law, state-owned undertakings and public procurement as well as competition law, including mergers, antitrust and abuse of dominance, representing clients before the European Commission, national authorities and European courts.
He is Managing partner of the Brussels office and member of the Infrastructure, Energy & Ecological Transition, Environmental Sustainability, Restructuring & Insolvency and Public International Law & Economic Diplomacy Focus Teams. He is also member of the Golden Power Task Force and the Competition Litigation Task Force.
Chambers Review
Europe
Massimo Merola has a longstanding reputation as one of the top choices for complex state aid matters. He acts for beneficiary companies or their representative bodies on EC state aid investigations, on EGC appeals or on their role in the notification of new state aid measures. Massimo Merola is also central to the firm's wider EU competition practice, assisting clients with merger clearance notifications. He is admitted to practice in Italy and often advises Italian clients on state aid matters before the Italian authorities.
Massimo Merola has a longstanding reputation as one of the top choices for complex state aid matters. He acts for beneficiary companies or their representative bodies on EC state aid investigations, on EGC appeals or on their role in the notification of new state aid measures. Massimo Merola is also central to the firm's wider EU competition practice, assisting clients with merger clearance notifications. He is admitted to practice in Italy and often advises Italian clients on state aid matters before the Italian authorities.
Based in the firm's Brussels office, Massimo Merola has a long-standing reputation as one of the top choices for complex state aid matters. He acts for beneficiary companies or their representative bodies on EC state aid investigations, on EGC appeals or on their role in the notification of new state aid measures. Merola is also central to the firm's wider EU competition practice, assisting clients with merger clearance notifications. He is admitted to practice in Italy and often advises Italian clients on state aid matters before the Italian authorities.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"He is a role model overall because he is an extremely accomplished lawyer and a fantastic person to work with."
"Massimo Merola is an institution. He has a wealth of knowledge."
"Massimo Merola is a real authority on state aid and his opinion is very respected."
"He is an excellent lawyer with a great vision of the client's business and imaginative responses to the issues raised."
"He is one of the best in state aid."
"He is a role model overall because he is an extremely accomplished lawyer and a fantastic person to work with."
"Massimo Merola is an institution. He has a wealth of knowledge."
"Massimo Merola is a real authority on state aid and his opinion is very respected."
"He is an excellent lawyer with a great vision of the client's business and imaginative responses to the issues raised."
"He is one of the best in state aid."
"He is a role model overall because he is an extremely accomplished lawyer and a fantastic person to work with."
"Massimo Merola is an institution. He has a wealth of knowledge."
"Massimo Merola is a real authority on state aid and his opinion is very respected."
"He is an excellent lawyer with a great vision of the client's business and imaginative responses to the issues raised."
"He is one of the best in state aid."
"He is a role model overall because he is an extremely accomplished lawyer and a fantastic person to work with."
"Massimo Merola is an institution. He has a wealth of knowledge."
"Massimo Merola is a real authority on state aid and his opinion is very respected."
"He is an excellent lawyer with a great vision of the client's business and imaginative responses to the issues raised."
"He is one of the best in state aid."