We are a leading independent, international law firm. Our strength includes over 430 lawyers serving our clients around the world through our offices in Rome, Milan, Bologna, Padua, Turin, Abu Dhabi, Brussels, Hong Kong*, London, New York* and Shanghai**.
Professional excellence
Quality is the hallmark of our work. Our goal is to be the firm of choice for clients with regards to all their legal needs, whatever may be the size of the matter. Excellent, timely and pragmatic advice is what makes us an award-winning law firm.
Integrated Approach
Corporate practice has always been our core business. Over the years, the prestige enjoyed in this area led us to diversify and develop other areas into core specialties. Today, we provide our clients with an integrated approach which results in a coordinated and efficient management of all aspects of their transactions.
Efficiency
Efficiency is a primary concern for our clients. That is why we focus on providing them with a tailor-made team that is the best combination of quality and cost-effectiveness.
Team coordination, in-depth understanding of our clients’ businesses and needs, and a focus on their strategic objectives are the strengths that fuel our efficiency.
Global reach
Being international has always been our goal. Through our offices in Italy and abroad, we are present in key business centres. Thanks to a network of long-standing relationships with leading law firms all over the world, we are also able to fully assist our clients on cross-border transactions. We are members of the World Law Group and the World Services Group, two leading global associations of independent law firms.
Business network
Thanks to an increasing volume of activity at the highest levels, over the years we have built a business network with major stakeholders. Today we enjoy a credibility that our clients can benefit from tremendously.
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We boast one of Italy’s leading mergers and acquisitions practices, assisting commercial and industrial companies, financial institutions and investment banks in structuring and completing all types of M&A transactions.
While maintaining a profile in large, complex deals, we also represent medium-sized businesses in their investment programmes as well as in their day-by-day activity.
We are recognized for completing innovative deals and handling issues requiring a sophisticated approach. Frequently, our ground-breaking solutions have become common play in corporate law.
Our broad experience allows us to provide the best possible advice across the many issues that can arise in M&A, assisting our clients both in their domestic and in their cross-border transactions.
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We are able to provide specific assistance and support in relation to any sort of insurance activity and transaction to be carried out in Italy due to the significant experience of a well-established and focused team of professionals.
We assist clients in the acquisition of participations in insurance companies (both minority and controlling participations), insurance intermediation, as well as in the regulatory issues connected thereto, with particular reference to product and distribution aspects, relations with the Insurance Regulatory Authority ("IVASS") and assistance in procedures before the Italian Antitrust Authority.
We have developed a vast experience in structured finance transactions carried out by insurance companies. For such purposes, our teams of professionals expert in insurance, financial and regulatory sectors are able to coordinate with each other as a sole unique team.
Finally, our firm provides on going assistance to Italian insurance companies, Italian branches of insurance and reinsurance companies located in EU countries and non-EU countries, to EU insurers acting on a freedom of service basis, as well as to subjects carrying out insurance intermediation activity in Italy.
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Amongst Italian law firms offering “full-service” assistance, our department which has strength in depth across the areas of industrial and intellectual property, TMT and Cybersecurity is one of the most highly regarded and respected.
We give our legal advice both in contentious – before both judicial and administrative courts and authorities – and non-contentious matters to both Italian and foreign-based clients. Furthermore, we guarantee an effective support to IPOs and to M&A transactions.
Our deep and transversal insights of specific industries and businesses of interest for industrial and intellectual property, IT and media – such as fashion, consumer goods, food, tobacco, pharmaceuticals, toys, radio and television, cinema, communications, sports and e-commerce – enable us to give advices which are capable to cover all legal aspects of any specific industry, while remaining focused on the business aims of our clients.
In the field of cybersecurity, we provide support in relation to all legal aspects, including both national and international regulations, advising in regard to ordinary compliance activities ( eg. the NIS Directive and the “Perimetro di Sicurezza Nazionale Cibernetica”), and in regard to extraordinary events, such as security incidents, cyber-attacks and data breach.
Global approach and international skills allow us to give our assistance to clients all over the world.
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We have developed over the years one of the largest and most reputable labour and employment departments in Italy. We pride ourselves of the strength of our 20-year experience in all areas of labour law.
Our team of experienced specialists work with clients from a wide range of sectors to address all labour, social security law, and industrial relations issues. We also have hands-on experience as litigators, having been involved in complex and challenging Court cases.
Since our clients include a number of global businesses, we have developed a multi-cultural approach. We rapidly understand what clients really need and provide sound and timely advice, also in cross-border contexts.
Clients seek our advice on matters such as the following:
- restructurings and reorganizations;
- individual and collective employment aspects of mergers and acquisitions;
- industrial relations;
- employment contracts;
- top managers and directors arrangements;
- benefits and incentive plans;
- litigation;
- commercial agents;
- privacy;
- training and development.
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We have been engaged in litigation and arbitration since the foundation of the firm. Clients have long relied on our firm for our unparalleled litigation and arbitration practice both in Italy and, through our international network, abroad.
We offer our clients an unrivalled array of services in litigation, arbitration and alternative dispute resolution, with a special know-how in areas such as banking, finance and financial services, mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property, real estate, bankruptcy, labour and “administrative law” controversies (i.e. litigation related to acts of the public authority, decisions of Government agencies etc.).
We take the litigation process as a means to an end, not as an end in itself. We are committed to providing our clients with sensible and practical advice, whether this means avoiding or fighting disputes.
We represent large corporations and financial institutions in a wide variety of international disputes, including ICC proceedings.
We have developed a specific expertise in domestic and international arbitration, as well as in alternative dispute resolutions.
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We have developed a unique experience in real estate transactions.
Our real estate team engages in a multi-disciplinary practice. With an integrated network of leading individuals, we have the resources and the know-how to successfully handle all aspects of a real estate transaction. Experts of corporate law and practice, zoning and building regulations, protection of the environment, corporate finance, tax laws, capital markets work together to get the deal done.
Some of the transactions in which we have been involved in the last decade are milestones in the Italian real estate industry. In such transactions we have assisted our clients in a full range of issues including development, financing, listing in capital markets, construction of large size projects, creation and management of real estate funds, corporate reorganizations and assets spin-offs.
Our activity and achievements have gained us a key position in the industry as demonstrated by the ratings given to our firm by our clients in the most important international legal directories.
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Cases involving white-collar crime require a special skill set. This is why we set up a collaboration agreement with Studio Legale Ciro Pellegrino, an Italian top-tier boutique specialising in white collar crime.
Our clients can now benefit from cutting-edge expertise in the management of complex litigation and in preventive counselling and compliance programmes. Some of the white collar experts are based in our offices, guaranteeing a perfectly integrated practice.
Clients seek our advice with regards to crimes connected to: corporate, tax, IT, banking, public entities.
Special attention is given to the so-called “231 proceedings”. The Legislative Decree 231/2001, regarding the responsibility of public entities for crimes committed by their members, has originated a number of proceedings. Preventive penal liability assessment may prove crucial.
