Industrial law
In the field of industrial law the firm assists its clients in drafting and negotiating technology transfer agreements, sponsorship, advertising, publishing agreements, as well as in the agreements upon licensing of industrial property, such as patents for industrial inventions, models and designs, trademarks, know-how and intellectual property law. The firm also provides its consultancy related to any issue concerning the pharmaceutical industry, both for contractual topics both for international trade law issues and patents.
The firm assists clients in litigation relating to trade marks, patents, unfair competition, breach of terms of competition.Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions and Extraordinary Operations
The Firm provides to its clients, both Italian and foreign, its legal services relating to all issues of corporate law and commercial contracts.
In the corporate law field, the Firm gained a significant experience in providing its consulting services to listed and non-listed companies. Furthermore, the Firm activity in this area includes, inter alia, consultancy relating to setting up of newly formed companies, sale and acquisition of already establishes companies, definition of the relevant corporate governance aspects as part of the current ordinary management, assistance in drafting the different procedures and models as well as in extraordinary corporate transactions.
The Firm legal assistance also includes drafting and negotiating commercial transactions, conducting due diligence, companies and joint ventures incorporations, preparation of loan agreements and drafting shareholders’ agreements.
The Firm assists its clients in any operation of lease or assignment of business as a going concern, merger and acquisition, private equity or of listing on regulated markets.
Furthermore, infra-group reorganization and attention to the corporate assets, as well as company reorganization as a consequence of generational succession, play a leading role in the Firm’s corporate consultancy.
Banking and Finance Law
The Firm assists its clients in any operation regarding the granting of loans, including in pool ones, during both the preparatory stage and the subsequent stage of improvement of the whole contractual documentation, as well as in those of leverage buyout and corporate, acquisition and project finance.
In capital markets, the Firm provides consultancy in operations of capital increase, issuances of bonds, including convertible ones, private placements and takeover bids, as well as assistance in the whole listing process, including the relations with the competent Authorities and the relevant fulfilments.
The Firm gained a significant experience in providing its consulting services to listed companies, with regard to the drafting of the relevant procedures, i.e. for transactions with related parties, for the handling of confidential information and prevention of crimes and models pursuant to Italian Decree 231/2001.
The Firm gained an extensive experience in litigation between listed companies and the relevant reference subject (major shareholders, financial advisors, corporate officers, statutory auditors) and the Italian Supervisory Authorities, i.e. Consob, Banca d’Italia, IVASS and Antitrust. In this field, the Firm assists companies and private citizens recipients of sanctions, providing consultancy activities and defence in administrative proceedings started by the Italian Regulatory Authorities, as well as defence activities in legal proceedings both in opposition to administrative penalties ahead ordinary Judges both forward the administrative courts.
Bankruptcy and Corporate Restructuring Law
The Firm assists its clients in operations concerning projects of debt restructuring aimed at the corporate and at the group reorganization.
The Firm also provides its consultancy related to any issue concerning bankruptcy procedures, assisting both clients interested in taking over the assets in the process of liquidation of the bankruptcy assets, and the competent authorities responsible for carrying out the insolvency proceedings. The consultancy also regards litigation activities towards directors and control bodies, as well as the recovery and the verification of claims.
Commercial Law
The Firm regularly assists its clients in drafting and negotiating commercial transactions, including letters of intent, memorandum of understanding, nondisclosure and exclusivity agreements, purchase agreements, contracts for procurement of gods or services, distribution agreements, goods and service supply agreements, operating in different areas, such as automotive, information technology, shipbuilding, energy, as well as the medical, industrial, fashion and real estate field.
The Firm gained a considerable experience in drafting and negotiating of franchising contracts and in the management of litigation and assists franchisor of international standing.
The Firm’s activities relating to these areas range from specific contractual provisions, over the assistance in commercial transactions even of remarkable extent.
Energy Law
The Firm assists clients who are active the energy industry, since the liberalization, with regard to every contractual aspect, occurring at different time, and to normal operations, such as the design and the construction of power stations, the relations with the competent Energy Authority, the GSEand the Energy Ministry, as well as the drafting of energy purchase and selling contracts, even abroad.
The Firm also provides assistance in cross-border operations, such as interconnection projects.
The Firm also assists its clients in acquisitions of operating companies’ stockholdings or single asset, aimed at the development of renewable energy production facilities.
The Firm provides assistance in the drafting of contracts concerning these issues, such as exchange agreements, EPC and O&M agreements related to the power stations construction, taking part in every phase of negotiation and contributing to the conception of the operation itself.
Administrative law
The Firm also provides assistance in the administrative law field, with particular regard to public-private partnerships and to contractual relations with public entities (contracts and tenders, project financing, sponsorship), as well as to the relations with the Supervisory Authorities (such as Consob, Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato, Banca d’Italia, Autorità per l’Energia Elettrica e il Gas, etc.).
The Firm also assists public entities in privatization transactions.
Antitrust and Competition Law
The Firm gained an extensive experience in assisting its clients in the field of antitrust and competition law litigation against the Supervisory Authorities and in particular against Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato.
In this field the Firm assists companies and private citizens recipients of sanctions, providing consultancy activities and defence in administrative proceedings started by the Italian Regulatory Authorities, as well as defence activities in legal proceedings both in opposition to administrative penalties ahead ordinary Judges both forward the administrative courts.
Labor Law
The Firm provides its consultancy on every aspect concerning labour law, both judicial and extrajudicial, and assists its clients even with regard to social security issues, mainly in favour of employers and company directors.
The Firm also deals with the negotiation and drafting of employment contracts, company collective agreements, non-competition agreements, employee incentive programs, safety at work, agency and representation agreements.
Civil Law
The Firm assists the clients with regard to every aspect of civil law, included the family/individuals law and the heritage law, also with regard to foundations, associations and non-profit entities.
The Firm assists its clients with the negotiation and drafting of civil contracts, typical and untypical, with specific reference to the real estate contracts and procurement of goods and services contracts.
Litigation and Arbitrations
The Firm provides assistance in litigations concerning every issues related to civil, corporate, industrial, administrative and labour law, before the competent national and international courts both at first instance and in appeal (Tribunale ordinario, Tribunali Amministrativi Regionali, Sezioni regionali della Corte dei Conti, Corte d’Appello) and supreme jurisdictions (Corte di Cassazione, Consiglio di Stato, Corte dei Conti) as well as in national and international arbitration proceedings, administrated or not.
Law of Cultural Heritage
The Firm provides its consultancy to public bodies and private subjects operating in the cultural and territorial preservation fields.
In particular, the Firm gained an extensive experience in the transformation of museums into private entities and carries out consultancy activities in the several areas of the cultural heritage, also by means of specific consolidated procedures (sponsorship contracts, crowdfunding; establishment of foundations, associations and consortiums) and innovative ones (benefit companies, partnerships for innovation).