SMAF & Associates law firm

• ENERGY LAW
• OIL & GAS LAW
• EUROPEAN  REGULATIONS
• REAL ESTATE
• COMPUTER LAW
• COPYRIGHT LAW
• CORPORATE LAW
• INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
• TRADEMARK
• INTERNATIONAL TRANSACTIONS
• DEBT COLLECTION
• SECURITIES AND INSIDER TRADING
• MARITIME LAW
• ANTI TRUST LAW
• CRIMINAL LAW
• PUBLIC TENDERING
• COMMERCIAL LAW & PROPERTY
• COMMERCIAL LITIGATION AND ARBITRATION
• EMPLOYMENT
• IMMIGRATION
• M & A

• Copyright and trademark searches and registration
• Creation and development agreements 
• Infringement protection
• Intellectual property licensing
• Non-disclosure agreements
• Trade secret protection
• Service marks
• Patents
• Industrial designs
• Database rights
• Protection of confidential information, goodwill and corporate know-how
• Freedom of information and related rights and obligations
• Establishing, enforcing and protecting intellectual property

• Debt recovery external authorized agencies
• Collection via external authorized agencies
• Debt collection in Italy via lawyers activity
• Court order of payments requested by our lawyers

A foreign company importing, exporting, or investing in Italy could be interested in the activities of a law firm like Studio Legale Misuraca & Associates; it is a Law Firm based in Italy for international investors and traders with main offices in Milan, Rome, and Bologna and is available to recover debts in all Italian regions on behalf of those international companies importing, exporting, or investing in Italy, which often have to collect credits for loss of payments or for the importation of goods with defects. Studio Legale Misuraca & Associates will previously explain to foreign clients all costs, applicable procedures under Italian legislation, and the timetable for debt collection in Italy.

• Counseling on real estate transactions
• Drafting of lease contracts, sales, building and related assistance

The legal advisor role of our law firm in Italy (Milan, Bologna, and Rome) in a typical transaction is as follows: A client advised by a lawyer shall never forget the significant role played by property matters, which can interfere with a dispute managed by his attorney. Namely, enforcement of judgment suggests the extreme importance of legal advice on property rights. Property signifies dominion or the right of use, control, and disposition, which one may lawfully exercise over things, objects, or land.  One of the basic dividing lines between property in Anglo-Saxon legal systems is that between real property and personal property.  Generally, the term real property refers to land.  Land, in its general usage, includes not only the face of the earth but also everything of a permanent nature over or under it.  This includes structures and minerals.

• Company torts

Criminal law involves the prosecution by the government of a person for an act that has been classified as a crime. Civil cases, on the other hand, involve individuals and organizations seeking to resolve legal disputes. In a criminal case, the state, through a prosecutor, initiates the suit, while in a civil case, the victim brings the suit. Persons convicted of a crime may be incarcerated, fined, or both. However, persons found liable in a civil case may only have to give up property or pay money, but they are not incarcerated.

A "crime" is any act or omission (of an act) in violation of a public law forbidding or commanding it. Though there are some common law crimes, most crimes in the world are covered by different laws established by local, state, and federal governments. Criminal laws vary significantly from state to state. The role of our law firm in Italy (Milan, Bologna, and Rome) in a typical situation is to give guidance.

• Protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights 
• Breach of contract 
• Anti-trust 
• Insurance claims 
• Construction disputes 
• Professional negligence 
• Defective products 
• Environmental damage claims 
• Property disputes 

Our law firm in Italy (Milan, Rome, Bologna) can give key information and help on related following topics of arbitration and ADR: 

• Choice of Law and Proof of Foreign Law 
• International Arbitration
• Enforcement of Foreign Judgment and Foreign Arbitral Awards

• Intellectual property 
• Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and EU Directive n. 29/2001
• Test of DMCA and of Directive n. 29/2001
• Software law
• Software patent
• Digital Rights Management 
• Electronic signature laws 
• Rights of cryptography 
• E-commerce and Firmware Agreements
• Cyber defamation law 
• Internet censorship 
• Spamming and cyber-squatting 
• Piracy Act
• Computer crime
• Computer forensics

We help in our main offices (Milan, Rome and Bologna) clients to structure IT transactions in a way that maximizes the client’s economic benefit while ensuring regulatory compliance and, typically, reducing the risk of litigation. IT law encompasses various aspects of contract, intellectual property, software protection, privacy and data protection laws. The field of intellectual property includes the copyright of domain names (ID, trademark, names, web-site names, etc.), rules on fair use, special rules on copy protection for digital media, and circumvention of such schemes. The area of software protection covers license agreements (end user, free software and open-source), product and professional liability of individual developers, warranties (performance, installation, troubleshooting and user training), limited liability and indemnification of the vendor (ISP, software or hardware producers, gross dealers of networks and mainframes), infringement disclaimers, payment and finance terms, and more. The field of electronic signature legal issues involves our advice about all rules (the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act and the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act) relating to customer consent disclosures, record retention, and document reproduction capabilities. 

The privacy law regards unauthorized access, data privacy and spamming, the trade on the Internet (with implications for taxation, consumer protection, and advertising), and class action consumer lawsuits. We also perform legal checks on jurisdiction over items published on the Internet for e-commerce reasons.

We deal with estate planning as the process of anticipating and arranging for the management and disposal of a person's estate during the person's life in preparation for a person's future incapacity or death. Our estate planning activities will include planning for incapacity, reducing or eliminating uncertainties over the administration of a probate, and maximizing the value of the estate by reducing taxes and other expenses. 

Our advice about estate planning may involve a will, trusts, beneficiary designations, powers of appointment, property ownership (for example, joint tenancy with rights of survivorship, tenancy in common, tenancy by the entirety), gifts, and powers of attorney (specifically, a durable financial power of attorney and a durable medical power of attorney).

We also advise about wills, which are a common estate planning tool and are usually the simplest device for planning the distribution of an estate. 

We draft your trust, which may be used as an estate planning tool to direct the distribution of assets after the person who creates the trust passes away or becomes incapacitated.