Martina Barcaroli

Member of the Rome and Paris Bars, after having graduated at University of Rome la Sapienza (Laurea in Giurisprudenza) in 1997 and at the London School of Economics (General Course Degree) in 1995, she took an LL.M degree at Harvard Law School in 1999. She started her international career at the Centro Studi UNIDROIT, “The International Institute for the Unification of private Law” in 1997. After one year and a half spent in Cambridge at the Harvard Law School she joined the Brussels team of the American law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and then moved to the European Commission DG Competition where she spent one year working on competition law matters. In 2002 she joined as in-house lawyer the French branch of the Italian car manufacturing company, Fiat. Since 2006 she serves as Italian delegate of the CCBE (European Bar Council) and heads the Paris branch of the international affairs department of the Italian Bar Council (Consiglio Nazionale Forense). She currently practices as of-counsel at the law firm Vovan & Associés in Paris advising in the field of European law, company law and, more specifically, in the gambling sector.