Studio Legale e Tributario Ernst & Young

Alessandra Pietroletti

Alessandra, who became a Partner of the firm in 2021, is Head of the IT and Data Protection team at EY TAX & LAW ITALY. Alessandra, who has 15+ years of professional experience in the field of IT and data protection, has a wealth of experience supporting national and international companies in assessing, managing and monitoring the correct development of projects and products based and centred on new technologies (i.e., blockchain, artificial intelligence, IoT) and data (personal and non) in full compliance with national and European laws. Of note is Alessandra’s work in the area of Data Protection - which has led her to hold the position of Data Protection Advisor and Data Protection Officer (DPO) for a number of companies operating in a range of sectors – including distribution, manufacturing, banking, utilities, and insurance services.

Christian Busca

Christian Busca is a Partner of EY TAX & LAW ITALY’s Corporate and M&A team. He has a consolidated experience assisting both national and international clients on a range of M&A, corporate and commercial matters, especially in the consumer products, industrial products and advanced technologies sectors. Over the last years, he has dedicated to servicing of corporate NPEs, providing due diligence, management and compliance advice on this matter. Of note is Christian’s work advising on transnational and multidisciplinary projects: in this framework, he is leading a platform for full servicing of corporate NPEs.

Daniele Caneva is the EY Law Leader for Italy and Head of the Intellectual Property department at EY TAX & LAW ITALY. His practice focuses on advising national and international clients on a wide range of Intellectual Property matters in addition to assisting clients, from a strategic point of view, with portfolio management. He also has a wealth of experience working with clients on contentious matters in order to protect and defend their intellectual assets. Clients include major domestic and international luxury and fashion, pharmaceutical, automotive, media, entertainment, publishing and software companies. Daniele truly stands out for his initiative to better protect clients’ intellectual assets – both tangible and intangible – through the valorization and defence of know-how within the context of ‘Patent Box’ and a pioneering ‘Master Book’. Also of note is his extensive experience assisting clients with industrial and intellectual property contracts - including the negotiation of complex agreements for the exploitation of patents and know-how. Daniele Caneva is also specialized in advising clients on labelling and “Made in Italy”.

Elena Carpani is a Partner of EY TAX & LAW ITALY and one of the original founding members of the firm’s Intellectual Property team which was established when she arrived in April 2019. She focuses her practice on providing counsel to national and international clients - operating in the fashion, luxury, lifestyle and design, NFT and metaverso sectors - on a wide range of intellectual property matters in the fields of trademarks, advertising & media – including the protection and commercialisation of their IP assets. Elena has a wealth of experience confronting competitors on behalf of her clients over unfair claims relating to intellectual assets and advertising – as well as defending her clients when their IP asset claims are challenged. Of note is her extensive litigation experience advising on unfair competition matters especially in the field of advertising of consumer products. This is in addition to the counsel she provides on the New Deal for Consumers which essentially has opened up the Italian market to consumer Class Actions.

Giovanni Francesco Casucci

Giovanni Casucci is a Partner on EY’s Intellectual Property team. Giovanni’s practice has been exclusively dedicated to Intellectual Property law for 30+ years. Giovanni has wealth of experience representing leading corporations before the Italian courts in complex cross border litigation cases on patent, design and trademarks also involving antitrust issues - as well advising on technology transfers and licensing. Of note is the work Giovanni does as an external advisor for IP matters to the Republic of San Marino having contributed to the adoption of their IP Code in 2005 and advising on legislative updates.

Luigi has been a member of the EY team since 2002 With more than 35 years of work experience, he has provided out-of-court professional assistance to large and medium-sized Italian and international companies on a variety of matters related to IT, internet law, personal data protection, industrial law and new technologies. He has also assisted national and international clients on Data Privacy matters in a number of extraordinary M&A and joint-venture transactions. Luigi has developed a special in-depth focus on IT law, data security, data protection and in reference to digital signatures, invoicing and electronic document storage. He holds the position of Data Protection Officer (DPO) for several companies in various sectors.

Maria Cristina Breida

Maria Cristina Breida is a Partner of the firm and the Environment, Climate Change & Sustainability Leader for EY Tax & Law Italy. She has more than twenty years’ experience in assisting international groups, Italian public and private companies, private equity funds and investment banks in relation to significant extraordinary and real estate transactions involving activities with a high environmental and energy impact, environmental policies and responsibilities and risk management. Maria Cristina has extensive expertise in assisting clients in structuring and implementing innovative energy transition business projects and green economy and sustainability models applied to industrial and energy sectors as well as in advising on projects in the field of conventional and renewable sources with reference to contractual, authorization profiles, negotiation with the Public Administration and litigation. She also provides legal support in sustainable finance operations, ESG regimes applicable to entities operating in regulated markets and environmental, climate change and ESG liability litigation.

Massimo Giaconia

Massimo Giaconia, who is a Of Counsel to EY TAX & LAW ITALY, has a significant knowledge of financial industry including leasing, pharmaceutical industry, information technology, oil and gas, industrial and consumer products, because of several engagements from clients in Italy, Europe and the US. He is involved in several Transfer Pricing Projects. Prior to joining the firm in 2020, he was Head of Tax at Baker & McKenzie and before Tax Partner of Ernst & Young. In 1999, he was also in charge of the Italian Tax Desk of Ernst & Young in New York City. He is often lecturer in conferences and seminars on taxation organized by Business Schools, specialized entities and Industrial Associations.

Mattia Riccardo Petrillo

Mattia is a Partner of the firm and the Leader of EY’s Energy and Efficiency Legal Department. He has specific and extensive expertise in the energy and efficiency sector with a strong network of clients and relations, having an extensive Italian and international experience in the energy, oil & gas, and infrastructure sectors, as well as in commodities trading (e.g., oil, gas, LNG, coal, metals), e-mobility and energy transition projects. In these fields, Mattia assists clients with respect to corporate, contractual and regulatory matters. He regularly advises some of the leading Italian and foreign companies in these sectors on, amongst others: the development, construction, operation, maintenance and financing of renewable energy and energy efficiency projects; M&A and extraordinary transactions; procurement, distribution and supply of commodities, chemical products, goods and services, PPA, SLA, access to transmission grids and facilities, also on a cross-border basis; access to regulated assets and facilities, participation to public tenders and structuring of contractual structure and strategy on the market (both wholesale and final customer); and design and development of transactions and solutions aimed at support the energy transition.

Michele is a Partner of the firm, Head of the Regulatory practice and leader of the FSO (Financial Services Organisation) Law department for EY Italy. He has 20+ years of legal acumen – focusing his practice on providing Banking Law and Financial Regulatory counsel. Of note is his wealth of experience advising regulated entities in the banking, financial, investment and insurance fields. In particular, Michele handles for his clients a wide range of sophisticated legal and regulatory aspects, including: - advisory and management of legal and regulatory matters related to the provision of investment, banking, financial, payment and insurance services (licensing for banks, financial and insurance institutions; passporting of EU banks, insurance and financial institutions, - licenses into and from Italy for the provision of banking, investment, financial, payment and insurance services, prudential requirements); - structuring and implementation of collective investment management schemes and offering of units/shares of Italian and foreign funds; - analysis and management of legal and regulatory aspects connected to the issuance and offering of banking, financial, payment and insurance products in Italy; - assistance in the drafting and negotiation of banking, financial, payment, investment and insurance services agreements and related issues (including outsourcing and separate accounts agreements); - assistance to Italian/foreign insurance companies and intermediaries with the structuring of their business and distribution models and the drafting of documentation for the offering of insurance-financial products as well as with cross-border transactions;ù - assistance in relation to M&A transactions involving regulated entities and with respect to the applicable licenses and authorization filings and post-closing duties; - assistance in the pre-litigation phases of sanction procedures applied to banks, insurance and financial institutions and their key officers for any breaches of the applicable regulations; - assistance to regulated entities on anti-money laundering, market abuse and ESG connected issues; - assistance to Fintech institutions and start-ups with respect to any legal and regulatory issue connected to their activities and/or projects (i.e.: legal implications on blockchain, tokens, NFT, etc.).

Oriana is a Partner of EY TAX & LAW ITALY and is Head of the firm’s Infrastructures and Project Finance team. She has a strongly established experience in energy, infrastructure and project finance market, both in Italy and abroad providing legal assistance in all phases of Project Finance transactions (i.e. due diligence, transaction structuring, drafting, assistance in negotiation, signing and closing of finance documents). Oriana has also gained significant experience in: the public-private partnership sector, having assisted primary domestic multi-utility companies in drafting, structuring and negotiating of PPP proposals in the following areas: (i) energy requalification of public building on EPC basis; (ii) electrification of public transport; (ii) construction and operation of waste to chemical plants; and M&A transactions in infrastructure and energy sector.

Orsola is a lawyer leading the Insurance practice of the FSO (Financial Services Organisation) Law department for EY Italy. She has 15+ years of experience in the financial services law market and, in particular, in the insurance sector. Her practice is focused on providing counsel in the insurance, re-insurance and financial services sectors. Of note, Orsola has a strong experience of advising on complex insurance regulatory issues, compliance and intermediation, assisting insurers and intermediaries also in proceedings before the public Authorities like IVASS (i.e. the local insurance regulatory authority). Orsola also has experience in litigation in front of Italian Civil Courts. She is also well versed in providing counsel on M&A transactions (including mergers, sales or transfers of businesses or business units) in the financial and insurance sectors - especially in the legal/regulatory field. She is regularly asked to speak at conferences and seminars on a wide range of insurance matters - including: • Agreements between intermediaries • Implementation of the Insurance Distribution Directive • Implementation of the Transparency Regulation • New rules on product governance and rules for the monitoring of the insurance distribution Network.