Eversheds Sutherland

Our main services include:

• Draft of statute, deed of partnership and parasocial agreements
• Initial public offerings and secondary share issues
• Private equity
• Mergers & acquisitions
• Formation of joint ventures
• Corporate governance
• Establishing and structuring corporate entities in Italy
• Corporate reorganisations, including legal audits and due diligence reviews

Our main services include:

• Bankruptcy and in restructuring arrangements;
• Controlled administration procedures;
• Assistance to insolvent entrepreneurs;
• Preparing and filing claims for credit applications, and for the request of restitution of chattel or real estate;
• Revocation;
• Extra judiciary matters.

Our experience in insurance law includes both litigation and transactional work in insurance and reinsurance matters and with insurance intermediaries, including advising companies and brokers on M&A, tax and insurance portfolio matters.

On the contentious side we assist insurance companies either as counsels of the insured in disputes against third parties or as counsels of the insurers in coverage disputes. Our experience includes both life and non-life insurances, including professional liability, accident and health, medical malpractice, product liability, property and casualty, directors & officers, credit and financial risks, environmental liability, public officials/entities liability, shipping and transportation. In addition to proceedings before judicial authorities (Tribunals, Courts of Appeal and Supreme Court) we are involved in a number of arbitration proceedings, both domestic and international.

Our transactional work includes legal opinions on various insurance matters, regulatory aspects and relationship with IVASS (the Italian Insurance Supervisory Authority), corporate and tax assistance in mergers & acquisitions, transfer of companies and insurance portfolios, incorporation of insurance companies in Italy and setting up of branches in Italy for EU and non EU companies under freedom to provide services and freedom of establishment. We regularly assist our clients also in respect of insurance-associated aspects of privacy and data protection law.

Main services:

• legal opinions on various insurance matters
• advice on coverage and reporting
• claims handlings
• coverage litigation (including assistance in arbitration proceedings)
• multi-jurisdiction litigations
• incorporation and authorization process; incorporation of branches of insurance companies in Italy
• policy wording and advice on the interpretation of all types of insurance contracts
• assistance in the relationship with the reinsurers
• assistance in dealing with the Italian Competition Authority - AGCM (with specific reference to the potential investigations carried out by the Authority)
• assistance in the marketing in Italy of products of foreign insurance companies
• regulatory and compliance
• relationships between insurers and brokers
• assistance in the relationship with the Italian Insurance Supervisory Authority (IVASS) and in the interpretation of all the relevant Regulations
• M&A and joint venture agreements
• administrative liability pursuant to Legislative Decree n. 231/2001: assistance in the drafting of Organizational Models and assessment of their compliance; participation in 231 Surveillance Bodies (“Organismi di Vigilanza”)
• Assistance with regard to the following matters:
  • professional liability
  • directors & officers liability
  • product liability
  • medical liability casualty & property
  • motor insurance
  • environmental liability
  • public officials/entities liability
  • shipping and transportation - marine and aviation
  • index/unit-linked policies
  • credit and financial risks
  • payment protection insurance - mortgage insurance

Our main services include:

• Strategic alliances, including licensing, R&D collaborations and joint ventures
• Dispute management, including alternative dispute resolution procedures
• Intellectual property issues in corporate transactions
• Website and Internet related issues together with our e-Commerce team colleagues

Our main services include:

General

• management of employment relationships
• drafting of specific clauses: non-competition covenants
• agency agreements
• career and remuneration planning
• incentive, bonus and stock options plans
• company transfer
• company reorganisation procedures
• industrial and trade union relations
• international agreements
• in-house regulations and policies

Social security issues

• assistance during inspections
• immigration and emigration: assistence for temporary detachment, naturalisations, and employee transfer inside and outside the European Union
• company pension plans drafting
• contracts and subcontracts

Environment, health and safety

• drafting specific health and safety company manuals (health, safety, mobbing)
• prevention of injury in the workplace
• corporate and director liability
• relations with suppliers
• compliance with statutory regulations

Training and development of human resources

• human resources training to aid competitiveness in the market
• evolution of legislation and case law
• seminars and meetings for staff

Pensions

Our Italian pensions team provides legal advice and technical assistance to employees, employers, and companies operating in the financial sector, including those operating in other jurisdictions.

Particularly, our lawyers offer clients guidance to help them make the right decisions and comply with legislative and regulatory requirements. In addition to typical advice concerning pension contribution requirements, our team is able to provide assistance in relation to all types of legal claims, including class action matters.

Recent questions dealt with by our pensions team include:

• working after retirement
• post-retirement benefits
• pension funds, referring to a variety of matters including governance, tax and regulation
• aggregation of different pension schemes

We are proud to add that our Partner Valentina Pomares has recently been shortlisted in band 3 by Top Legal, a well-known legal sector magazine in Italy. The research is based on a submission followed by interviews with clients.

Our main services include:

• Litigation
• Alternative dispute resolution
• Early Case Assessment
• Arbitration

Our main services include:

• Acquiring or disposing of commercial, retail, agricultural, industrial and residential property
• Records arrangement and licensing achievement
• Mergers or reorganisations of real estate groups
• Tax planning and assistance in development of efficient tax structures and domestic and international expenditures strategies
• Construction licence and others permits achievements
• Negotiating and drafting a wide variety of contracts (joint venture, purchase, supply, construction contracts)

Our main services include:

• Law 231/2001 on the criminal liability of the Government
• Corporate crimes
• Tax crimes
• Bankruptcy crimes
• Accident at work
• Criminal association
• Professional misconduct