Paolo Palmigiano - Lloyds Bank Group

Paolo Palmigiano is the Head of Competition Law at Lloyds Banking Group in London where he is involved in the enquiry carried out by the Independent Commission on Banking, headed by Sir John Vickers, which is looking at structural and non-structural remedies to improve competition and/or stability in the banking sector.

Before joining Lloyds Banking Group he was, for one year, the General Counsel of the Commission for Communications Regulation (‘ComReg), the regulatory and competition authority in Ireland for telecoms and post.

From 2000 to 2009 Paolo headed the Competition and Regulatory team of BT Group plc in London.

He studied law in Italy and at the College of Europe in Bruges. He later qualified to practice as a solicitor in England and Wales. Before joining BT, he was in private practice in Italy, in London and Brussels, advising clients on EU competition law.

Paolo has been involved in a large number of Competition Act investigations and his expertise includes in particular Article 102 / Chapter II. He is considered one of the leading experts on margin squeeze.

He has dealt with several cases in front of the Competition Appeal Tribunal and of the Competition Commission. His team also led the negotiations with Ofcom that ended with BT being the first company in the UK to give undertakings in lieu of a reference to the Competition Commission under the Enterprise Act.

Paolo is the chairman of the European in-house competition lawyers’ association, vice-chair of BIAC (the voice of business at the OECD in Paris) and a non-governmental advisor to the OFT in the UK. He is also a member of the CBI competition panel and of the Competition Appeal Tribunal’s users’ group. He was nominated one of the top 40 rising stars of in-house competition lawyers by Global Competition Review. He is also a frequent speaker at conferences on competition law matters.