CMS Adonnino Ascoli & Cavasola Scamoni

Eutimio Monaco is a partner and leader of the telecommunication competition and regulated markets department at CMS Adonnino Ascoli & Cavasola Scamoni. He joined the firm in 2011 in order to endow the firm with this department.

Before joining CMS, Mr Monaco was, for over 6 years (since 2005), the partner responsible for the telecommunication competition and regulated markets department of Bird & Bird, for which he founded the Rome office.

Before joining Bird & Bird, he worked for a number of highly reputed Italian law firms, developing significant experience in antitrust and the communications sector.

Mr Monaco’s reputation was primarily earned by winning numerous high profile antitrust cases. In particular, he filed many claims before the Antitrust Authority and competent civil and administrative courts on competition issues, and is currently involved in several proceedings filed on behalf of several relevant telecoms operators, particularly on the grounds of abuse of dominant position of the incumbent operator.

For example, he assisted several Italian communications operators within a relevant proceeding before the Italian antitrust authority (A/357) against the Italian mobile operators to ascertain their abuse of collective dominant position in the mobile access market.

Mr Monaco also assists major Italian companies before the competent Authorities in connection to concentration operations (with relevant domestic and EC impacts) and in connection to the conclusion of contracts relating to joint venture deals with a domestic and inter-state relevance.

He is widely recognised as true expert in the Telecoms sector.