We have strong expertise in private equity transactions. The firm’s attorneys have represented several foreign private equity funds in their investments in Italy, as well as Italian industrial players in their successful partnership with institutional investors.
We advise investors and portfolio companies in new acquisitions and follow-on investments to liquidation, including, where necessary, through restructuring transactions. The firm has also a strong track record in venture capital investments.

We regularly assist clients on commercial law matters, including drafting and negotiation of commercial contracts such as joint venture agreements, distribution and international sale contracts, as well as national and international transportation and procurement contracts.

We provide advice and assistance on a wide range of EU and Italian competition matters, with a particular focus on cartel cases and merger control procedures, leniency applications, State aids, and abuse of dominance. We regularly represent clients before the European Commission and the Italian Antitrust Authority as well as before national and EU courts. The firm’s professionals include widely recognized experts in competition and EU laws with extensive experience in these areas.

We represent Italian and foreign entities in litigation and arbitration proceedings, focusing on commercial and corporate disputes. The firm provides detailed analysis of complex cases and advises its clients with carefully thought legal strategies, having regard to every step of the dispute resolution process. Our attorneys have extensive experience in litigating cases before Italian and European courts, including the Italian Supreme Court and the Court of Justice of the European Union, as well as acting as arbitrators in ad hoc and administered arbitration proceedings.

We work with international and local clients and provide assistance to their needs in relation to GDPR and Italian data protection issues, IT and data security projects, including the structuring of ad hoc data protection systems and group compliance programmes also in the context of cybersecurity certification projects and in the management of IT and data breaches.
Our clients include, amongst others, financial institutions, cloud providers, chemical, fashion, telecommunication, internet and high-tech companies.

We advise clients in a wide range of sectors to address labour and social security law issues and related litigation. Our experts understand the needs of multinationals and help HR departments to implement plans suitable to their goals and the local legal environment. Clients seek our advice on matters such as restructurings and reorganizations, top managers and directors’ arrangements, employment aspects of mergers and acquisitions, benefits and incentive plans.

We provide the full range of legal services in terms of both regulatory and compliance advice as well as representation in connection with environmental litigation matters. Clients seeking advice include multinationals active in the oil & gas and energy industries, as well as in the energy-consuming and hard to abate (mining, ceramic and cement) sectors.

We advise foreign and domestic companies with respect to any area of administrative law. Our attorneys have considerable experience in the field of public procurement and energy law and assist clients in judicial proceedings before any administrative court.

We believe that lawyers should also dedicate themselves to improving the community and helping people. We volunteer and make our expertise available to individuals and institutions of limited means that might not otherwise have access to legal assistance. The firm has advised pro bono clients on a variety of projects and issues, including cancer prevention, historical buildings and heritage preservation, and asylum. In addition, our lawyers serve on the boards of not-for-profit philanthropic, cultural, educational and civic organizations. Our dedication to pro bono work is a source of pride and reflects a fundamental part of our firm’s culture.