Matteo Beretta’s practice primarily focuses on EU and Italian antitrust law, a practice area in which he advises numerous major international companies in regard to merger control procedures, and cartel and abuse of dominant position matters.

Matteo joined the firm in 1997, became counsel in 2004, and a partner in 2014. He worked in the Washington office and Brussels office before transferring to the Rome office in 2001. He divides his time between the Milan and Rome offices. 

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Publications

Critical Raw Materials: How to Build a Fortress to Protect the New Treasures?, in European Energy and Environmental Law Review, Volume 34, Issue 4, August 2025 (S. Bumbolo co-author)

La nuova strategia europea sulle materie prime critiche: come costruire la fortezza per difendere i tesori del futuro?, in Il Sole 24 Ore – Econopoly, May 23, 2025

More Sustainability and Innovation and Fewer Antitrust Constraints – The EU Competition Mandate, La Repubblica, October 2024

Italian Chapter of Legal 500 Merger Control Comparative Guide, 9th Edition, October 2024 (co-authored with Alice Setari)

Il diritto della concorrenza in Italia, G. Giappichelli Editore, 2024 (co-authored by Marco D’Ostuni)

“Competition, the Italian Competition Authority’s New Superpowers,” Il Sole 24 Ore – Econopoly, May 13, 2024

“Italian Competition Law Reform,” Cleary Gottlieb Alert Memorandum, August 17, 2022 (co-authored by Alice Setari, Riccardo Tremolada, Mario Siragusa, Marco D’Ostuni, Giulio Cesare Rizza, Gianluca Faella, Saverio Valentino, Fausto Caronna and Marco Zotta)

“Ddl Concorrenza, l’autorità Garante avrà più poteri ma non c’è chiarezza di indirizzo,” Milano Finanza, June 29, 2022 (co-authored by Riccardo Tremolada)

Le misure stringenti proposte da Bruxelles mettono a rischio il mercato dell’idrogeno,” Milano Finanza, April 12, 2022 (co-authored by Luciana Bellia and Alessandro Comino)

“ECN+ Directive Transposed Into Italian Law,” Cleary Gottlieb Alert Memorandum, 2021 (co-authored by Alice Setari, Riccardo Tremolada, Mario Siragusa and Marco D’Ostuni)

Il diritto della concorrenza in Italia, G. Giappichelli Editore, 2021 (co-authored by Marco D’Ostuni)

Il Sistema del controllo delle concentrazioni in Italia, G. Giappichelli Editore, July 2017 (co-authored by Marco D’Ostuni)

First edition and second edition of the Italian chapter of Global Legal Insight – Merger Control, Global Legal Group (Mario Siragusa co-author)

Competition Law in Italy – The first 20 years of practice, in Competition Laws Outside the United States, American Bar Association, 2012 (Mario Siragusa and Matteo Bay co-authors)

Italian chapter of The Dominance and Monopolies Review (several editions), edited by Maurits Dolmans, Law Business Research (Gianluca Faella co-author)

Italy chapter in Merger Control Worldwide, Cambridge University Press, edited by Maher Dabbah and Paul Lasok, Cambridge University Press, 2005 and 2012 (Mario Siragusa co-author)

Italian chapter of Competition and Cartel Leniency, Practical Law – Multi-jurisdictional guide 2012 (Marco D’Ostuni and Patrick Marco Ferrari co-authors)

I programmi di clemenza: opportunità e rischi per le imprese, in Mercati e banche nella crisi: regole di concorrenza e aiuto di stato, in Mercati e banche nella crisi: regole di concorrenza e aiuti di Stato, a cura di Giovanna Colombini e Michela Passalacqua, Università di Pisa - Editoriale Scientifica, 2011 (Luigi Nascimbene co-author)

Economia e diritto antitrust, Carocci, 2006 (Mario Siragusa, Luigi Prosperetti, Matteo Merini co-authors)

La presunzione di responsabilità delle società madri per le infrazioni alle regole di concorrenza commesse dalle proprie controllate, in Contratto e impresa / Europa, n. 1/2010 (Patrick Marco Ferrari co-author)

I legami personali nel controllo delle concentrazioni, in Concentrazioni bancarie e tutela della concorrenza, CEDAM, 2007 (Gianluca Faella co-author)

Recent developments in Italian Competition Law, in Competition Laws Outside the United States, American Bar Association – Section of Antitrust Law, First supplement, 2005 (Mario Siragusa co-author)

Controllo delle concentrazioni fra imprese ed accordi di esternalizzazione di attività precedentemente svolte in autoproduzione: il caso degli accordi di IT outsourcing, in Il Diritto Industriale, n. 3/2004 (Cesare Rizza co-author)

Italian chapter of ABA Section of Antitrust Law, Competition Laws Outside the United States, 2001 (Mario Siragusa co-author)

Repackaging And Rebranding Revised: Some Reflections On The Court’s Case Law In Light Of Its Recent Judgment In The Upjohn V Paranova Case, paper presented at the International Law Congress organized by IBC in Cyprus, on June 10-14, 2000

La dottrina delle “essential facilities” nel diritto comunitario ed italiano della concorrenza”), in Contratto e Impresa – Europa, Vol. 1999/1, Cedam, 1999 (Mario Siragusa co-author)

L’indemnisation du dommage consécutif à la violation du droit communautaire par les autorités publiques: le système juridique italien, in La responsabilité des Etats membres dans l’ordre juridique communautaire et au niveau national, edited by Prof. G. Vandersanden, Bruylant, 1997 (Massimo Merola co-author)

Franchising and Service Provider Liability in Draft E.C. Directive No. SYN 308 (“Affiliazioni commerciali e responsabilità del prestatore di servizi nella proposta di Direttiva SYN 308”), in “Public Procurements in Europe, Vol. II”, Chamber of Commerce of Milan, 1993

Protection of Competition and Franchising: the US Experience  (“Tutela della concorrenza e Franchising: l’esperienza statunitense”), in “I contratti della distribuzione commerciale” E.G.E.A., 1993.

Events

June 2022
What Perspectives for Competition Law in Italy?

May 2022
TopLegal Academy’s M&A Conference 2022

October 2019
PETRONAS 2019 Compliance Conference

January 2018
 Controllo delle concentrazioni europeo e nazionale: fino a che punto complementari?, Auditorium of Italian Competition Authority