Alessandra Canuti

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Partner of GPA - GiusPubbicisti Associati since 2008, she specializes in Administrative Law, advising private and public undertakings mainly in the sectors of energy, infrastructures, project financing and public procurements.
She was admitted to the Italian Bar in 2001 and is currently admitted to practice before the higher courts.
Besides practising litigation before the Administrative Courts and the Tribunal of Public Waters, she acted as legal advisor, mainly in relation to regulatory and antitrust aspects, in numerous M&A operations and administrative proceedings.
She collaborated, on behalf of undertakings and trade associations, to the drafting of bills and law amendments, in the energy and environmental sectors.
She is founding member of the European Association of Public-Private Partnership (AEPPP) and treasurer of AIDEN (Italian Energy Law Association). She is President of CREDA Onlus, a no-profit organisation active in the field of environmental research and education.

“In the course of my career, having worked closely with private undertakings, public institutions and nonprofit entities, I’ve had the opportunity to observe how an efficient cooperation between the public and private sectors is able to disclose a potential that would otherwise remain inaccessible. However, I also realised how easy it is for the results to be undermined by the complexity that is inherent to all the interactions between public and private parties, which are often subjected to different levels of limitation and sometimes bear divergent (or even conflicting) interests. I feel that the effectiveness of this cooperation could be significantly improved by developing a sound conceptual framework and a broader array of legal tools and I’m confident that the research work carried out by AEPPP will provide a meaningful contribution towards these purposes”.

Alessandra Canuti