Mario Siragusa is a partner of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, based in the Rome office. His practice focuses on corporate and commercial matters and he specializes in EU and Italian competition law and complex commercial litigation. He lectures regularly at conferences throughout the United States and Europe and has published numerous articles in U.S. and European legal journals. He is a professor at the College of Europe in Bruges and lectures at the Catholic University in Milan. He graduated with honours from the Law School of Rome University in 1970 and received a Diploma of High European Studies from the College of Europe in Belgium in 1971. He received an LL.M. degree from Harvard in 1972. Mr. Siragusa is a member of the Commission on Law and Practices Relating to Competition of the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris. He is also a member of the Rome Bar.