Senior Lecturer, Law


Room: Helmore 165

Email: pierluigi.congedo@anglia.ac.uk

Telephone: 0845 196 2190
International: +44 1223 363 271 ext. 2190

Pierluigi joined Anglia Law School as a Senior Lecturer in November 2012, and teaches Competition Law in a global context and International Corporate Governance at Master level, as well as Public International Law at undergraduate level.

Pierluigi previously taught Competition Law and Dispute resolution on a part-time basis under the direct supervision of Dr Penny English, while completing a PhD in EU Competition Law at the Centre of European Law, King's College London, under the supervision of Professors Richard Whish and Margaret Bloom, two of the main experts in Europe in this field.

His PhD, discussed at the end of last year and currently under revision, focuses on abuse of dominant position with respect to the access to the electronic communications networks. In particular the PhD tackles the problem of the choice of structural or functional networks separation to favour access, both as an ex ante or ex post remedy aimed at preventing or bringing to an end abuses of a dominant position such as price discrimination, margin squeeze, refusal to supply. He also considers the possibility of a multilateral approach, not only focusing on the dichotomy 'abuser' and 'abused', but also considers the role of the Competition Authorities in choosing a remedy that might favour the intervention of the EU member States in the aftermath of the antitrust decision. The State, as a direct purchaser of the separated network might carry out investments on the structurally separated network in order to bridge the digital divide, within the scope of the so-called Lisbon Agenda, and in line with the recently extended targets of the Treaty of Lisbon.

His earlier studies include an undergraduate degree in law at the Libera Università degli Studi Sociali (LUISS - Guido Carli) of Rome, with a final dissertation in Civil Law on the International Sale of Goods (1980 Vienna Convention). In 1996 he got his LLM (Master in European Business Law) at the European Law Institute of the Libre Université de Bruxelles (ULB). After full time work as an associate at Squire Sanders and Dempsey in Milan and Brussels, in 2000/2001 he was awarded a post-graduate research position in EU Competition Law at the same European Law Institute in Brussels, funded by the Italian National Research Council (CNR), under the supervision of D. Waelbroeck and J.F. Bellis. For his study on the abuse of dominant position in the Italian electronic communications sector he was awarded the CNR research prize in 2002.

After a second period of legal practice as a Senior Associate at the US law firm Baker & McKenzie in Rome, he moved to London where in 2004 got his MPhil in EU Competition Law at King's College London. In 2010 he was also admitted to plea before the Italian Supreme Court of Cassation, while in June 2011 was also officially admitted to the Law Society of England and Wales as a Solicitor. Since 2002 he has been also appointed as a Collaborateur Scientifique at the European Law Institute, ULB, Brussels.

Before teaching at Anglia Law School, Pierluigi was a Contract Professor at the Law School of the Università degli Studi di Roma III, where he taught EU/Italian Competition Law with a focus on remedies under UK, EU and Italian Competition Law at the Chair of Civil Law. From 2010 he has been Visiting Professor of EU Competition Law at the Law School of La Sapienza within the framework of the Master of European Private Law chaired by Professor Guido Alpa, chairman of the Italian Lawyers Council (Consiglio Nazionale Forense), one of the most forward looking and innovative minds of the Italian academia.

For a decade he has also been counsel of the law firm Accomply, based in Milan, and of the law firm Cuggiani & Partners, based in Rome.

As a lawyer he advises companies on a wide range of competition law issues, ranging from cartel enforcement, to abuse of dominant position, to pre-merger notification assessment, with a focus on commercial and regulatory issues with respect, in particular, to electronic communications companies. He also advised the Italian Ministry of Foreign Trade on International Trade and Competition Law issues and worked at the Enforcement Division of the Office of Fair Trading in London, Branch 'Media, Sport and Communications Industries', on the British Horseracing Board and Cityhook cases, and for the General Counsel (Legal Department) of British Telecom Global Services.

Pierluigi regularly speaks in national and international conferences on EU and Competition Law topics. Among his most recent publications is a chapter on remedies in the merger operations (Pierluigi Congedo / Federico Ghezzi, "I rimedi nelle operazioni di concentrazione. Disciplina e prassi comunitaria. Cenni sulla disciplina e prassi italiana" [transl.: "Remedies in concentration operations. European discipline and practice"], chapter of the Treatise of Civil Law Rescigno-Gabrielli, Volume 'I contratti della concorrenza' by Catricalà?Gabrielli, UTET Giuridica ? Kluwer, Turin, February 2011); the article "European 'Class' Action: British and Italian points of view in evolving scenarios", in Europa e Diritto Privato, Giuffré, Milan, 2009; and "Functional or structural separation in regulated industries? Winners do not punish; possibly cooperate (and innovate)", in Concorrenza e Mercato, Giuffré, Milan, no. 16/2008.

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