Practice Areas
- Real Estate and Real Estate Financing
- Public and Administrative Law, Publicly financed projects and services, Administrative litigation
- Information Technology and Communications
- Competition, Industrial and Intellectual Property
- Litigation, Arbitration and Bankruptcy Procedures
We offer legal and consulting services in contract, commercial and corporate law, ensuring the professional expertise required in identifying corporate profiles and configuring corporate governance systems, in drafting articles of incorporation, by-laws and added clauses.
Over the years we have acquired specific knowledge, both domestic and international, in the field of distribution contracts, particularly with respect to licensing contracts in the automobile and fashion industries. We are also specialized in franchising, agency and business intermediation agreements.
Our firm provides specific assistance in the issuance of securities, creation of segregated assets, corporate reorganization, mergers and spin-offs, joint-venture operations, etc.
Furthermore our firm assists state-owned enterprises and public companies in defining the management structure of their economic activities and in carrying out their private sector business transactions.
Real Estate and Real Estate Financing
Our firm.s clients include primary real estate construction and development companies, a number of which are involved in major project finance work.
Our experience in this sector enables us to offer integrated professional services that draw upon a wide spectrum of contractual instruments ranging from traditional institutions of civil law to foreign know-how and innovative techniques aimed at enhancing the value of real-estate assets (real-estate trusts, real-estate mutual funds, etc.); instruments that are rapidly gaining ground in the domestic market as well.
The expertise and experience gained by our firm over the years in real-estate development and urban planning, allows us to serve as a constant point of juncture providing advice and assistance in all the primary phases of activity, including contract administration and management.
Public and Administrative Publicly financed projects and services Administrative litigation
Our firm provides assistance in managing business relations with government bodies on all institutional levels, with specific reference to strategically significant sectors of the Italian economy, including urban planning, public contracts and the procurement of goods and services.
We also offer our services for the creation of associations (syndicates, corporate syndicates, joint-ventures) intended for the carrying out of operations with the public sector. Our firm also practices in the field of privatizations, securitization and sale of state-owned assets and enterprises. We have also acquired specific expertise in the representation of clients in arbitration proceedings and before public-sector courts such as the Tribunali Amministrativi Regionali, and the Consiglio di Stato.
We also offer our services for the creation of associations (syndicates, corporate syndicates, joint-ventures) intended for the carrying out of operations with the public sector.
Furthermore our firm practices in the field of privatizations, securitization and sale of state-owned assets and enterprises.
We have also acquired specific expertise in the representation of clients in arbitration proceedings and before public-sector courts such as Tribunali Amministrativi Regionali, Consiglio di Stato and Public indipendent Authorities.
Our firm provides legal counsel to leading banks, insurance companies and other financial institutions, both domestically and internationally, with respect to all operative and regulatory issues, as well as the management and optimization of institutional relations with monitoring authorities. Among other things, our services include technical support for ordinary and extra-ordinary financial operations, as well as advice on the elaboration and execution of personalized financing transactions.
We also provide assistance in debt recovery and restructuring.
Our corporate finance practice assists both corporate and individual investors in originating, structuring and administering major financial transactions (corporate acquisitions, forms of corporate partnership, etc.).
We provide a full range of professional support to both public and private entities, from negotiation to closing, of contracts, preliminary agreements, as well as partnerships and gentlemen agreements, for the assignment of corporate assets and operative units.
Furthermore, our firm guarantees global service and operative counsel to corporations and financial institutions interested in leveraged and managed buy-outs, corporate mergers, joint-ventures, temporary corporate partnerships, syndicates, financial transactions geared towards the assignment or securitization of corporate claims, definition of shareholders agreement and other instruments of commercial cooperation.
The expertise acquired in such sectors extends to legal counsel concerning the creation of investment funds (open or close-end, real-estate), incorporation of "Società di gestione del risparmio" and the relation with monitoring authorities.
Our firm's professional resources allow us to guarantee ongoing support in the identification and elaboration of the necessary legal instruments for the implementation of complex project and structured finance operations.
Information Technology and Communications
Recent Italian legislation, including the so called Code of Electronic Communications, privacy laws and the overhaul of broadcast and media regulation, has modernized the entire discipline governing the sectors of communication and personal data protection and significantly influenced all areas of economic activity.
Our firm guarantees ongoing legal advice concerning compliance with the sector.s primary and secondary legislation as well as with the current de-regulation process of the postal and utilities services.
Our professional services include the preparation of legal opinions and briefs, legal counsel in proceedings and consultations with the appropriate authorities and the European Commission.
Our firm advises clients on all aspects of information technology issues, both governmental/administrative and private, ranging from complex and digital licensing to the challenges of e-commerce, web-site management and cases of civil or criminal liability for online events.
Competition, Industrial and Intellectual Property
Our firm has acquired in-depth and recognized expertise in the field of industrial law. In our long-standing experience we have assisted clients in administering and overcoming the many challenges arising in matters of competition, branding and trademarks, industrial and intellectual patents, know-how and the safeguarding of software and multimedia products.
Our firm offers legal support in unfair competition proceedings and in resolving issues in connection to both Italian and E.C. antitrust regulations. We assist clients before the national competition authority (Autorità di Vigilanza della Concorrenza e del Mercato), as well as before civil and administrative courts.
Litigation, Arbitration and Bankruptcy Proceedings
Our firm guarantees legal advice and representation before civil and administrative courts, courts of appeal and national tax commissions both in Italy and abroad, thanks to a consolidated network of cooperation with leading foreign law firms.
We also represent and assist clients in arbitration proceedings.
Furthermore, our firm assists its clients in the various phases of government expropriation of private property and in bankruptcy proceedings.
Our firm provides advice and assistance on employment matters, representing clients before unions, regional employment offices and ordinary courts.
We offer specific expertise in safeguarding our clients. rights in matters of mobbing, layoffs, demotions and disciplinary measures, also pertaining to executive positions.
Our lawyers have a thorough understanding of the recently enacted legislation (known as the " Legge Biagi "), which has affected all new employment contracts as well as their respective closing procedures.
Over the years our firm.s sports law practice has been assisting corporations, associations, federations, athletes and coaches, both in Italy and abroad.
We provide legal advice, judicial and extra-judicial assistance and, more generally, we carry out support services to all aspects of the world of sports, meeting the legal and commercial needs of athletes, sports organizations, event promoters, sponsors and other interested parties.
Our firm guarantees tax advice pertaining to all activities carried out within its other practice areas.
Our tax lawyers have built extensive and in-depth expertise in tax-related matters, specifically referring to:
- Corporate evaluation and due diligence;
- Tax planning for M&A operations and corporate restructuring;
- Taxes for corporations and domestic corporate groups;
- International tax considerations for individuals and multi-national groups, particularly concerning the creation of new entities abroad;
- Indirect taxes (VAT, registration taxes) pertaining to the operations described above;
- Client assistance in connection to domestic and international rulings;
- Client assistance before the Italian tax commission and the Corte di Cassazione.