Salvatore Nava

Partner

Salvatore Nava is a Partner at Lear since 2020, having joined as a Consultant in 2014.

He has assisted companies in proceedings before national and supra-national competition authorities for suspected breaches of competition law, including cartels, information exchanges, exclusionary abuses, excessive pricing. He has worked on several mergers, at all stages of the assessment: from the initial evaluation of expected antitrust risk to the identification of suitable remedies in phase II investigations.

Salvatore regularly acts as the party-appointed expert in litigation matters. His role in these projects typically entails contributing to the definition of the overall strategy, in liaison with the company’s legal advisers; identifying suitable methods for the estimation of damages; preparing expert reports setting out damages estimation and rebutting claims by other parties in the proceeding; interacting with the court-appointed expert; and providing oral testimony before judges.

Salvatore has overseen the delivery of several research and policy assessment projects. Most notably, Salvatore led the Lear team responsible for the ex post evaluation of mergers in the digital sector for the CMA; and managed the consortium investigating, on behalf of the European Commission, four aspects of the state of competition in the EU: the relationship between price and concentration, the role of superstar firms, the interaction between domestic competition and export performance and the contribution of effective competition to macroeconomic performance. He has also directed several background studies on State aid in various sectors.

LATEST ENGAGEMENTS

• Assistance to International Paper Italy in litigation matters concerning the corrugated cardboard sector
• Support study for DG COMP for the revision of the Railway Guidelines
• Assistance to merging parties in the Pittarosso/Scarpe&Scarpe merger proceedings before the Italian Competition Authority