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Aldo Brielli

Partner Aldo P. Brielli is the Head of EY’s Healthcare and Life Science team. He is specialized in commercial, tender/public, compliance and EU regulatory law related to Life Sciences practices. Aldo is a lawyer who works with leading Italian and multinational companies in the field of commercial and company law, with full experience gained in the pharmaceutical and biomedical sector commercial and corporate law; particular experience in the context of daily consultancy (for any ordinary legal activity), extrajudicial and judicial (in litigation, also relating to liability for damage from defective product) and in support of extraordinary operations. In particular, he is recognized for his ability in commercial business contracts, in relations with the so-called "Third parties" (agents and distributors), within MedTech and in relations with stakeholders, medical personnel and the Public Administration, as well as in regulatory activities and in the preparation, review and implementation of organization, management and control models pursuant to Legislative Decree n. 231/2001. An essential feature is his very strong experience with the Healthcare and Life Sciences industry, with a deep knowledge of sector regulations and dynamic. This has allowed Aldo to create a personal, continuous and trusting relationship with the clients, summarizing the advice given in a concrete and timely manner - translating the logic and language of business management into those of the public administration, judicial authorities and of the Control Bodies.

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.

Alix Degrez

Senior Associate

Andrés Parra

Partner - Principal

Andrii Pryimak

Senior Associate

Angela Nowosad

Senior Counsel

Antoine Druetz

Associate Partner

Araceli Sáenz de Navarrete

Leading Partner of the Tax & Law Financial Services practice

Barbara François

Senior Counsel

Blanca Escribano

Head of Digital Law

Boaz Goren

Partner | Direct Tax Disputes Lead

Bogdan Malniev

Director

Borys Lobovyk

Parner, Head of Legal Practice

Bruno Cardoen

Partner

Carlos Sandoval

Partner Principal

Charles Morrison

Partner | Energy, Infrastructure and Finance Lead

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.

Dan Matsuda

As a Partner at EY Law Co., Dan Matsuda advises Japanese and international clients on commercial transactions and cross-border M&A. Making full use of EY Law’s global network, he assumes the role of controller to maximize the efficiency of the legal services he provides on a global scale. As a qualified Japanese lawyer, he advises on a vast array of regulatory matters, focusing on financial services law and general corporate law. Dan also represents international clients in dealings with official bodies such as the Fair-Trade Commission and the Bank of Japan.

Daniele Caneva

Daniele Caneva is the EY IP Europe West Leader and Head of the Intellectual Property team 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. This also includes counsel on labelling and the use of the “Made in Italy” trademark. Clients include major domestic and international luxury, fashion, pharmaceutical, automotive, media, entertainment, publishing and software companies. Of note is Daniele’s initiative to better protect clients’ intellectual assets – both tangible and intangible – through the valorization and defense of know-how within the context of ‘Patent Box’ and a pioneering ‘Master Book’. You can read more about these initiatives spearheaded by Daniele below. 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.

Dario Pozzi

Dario Pozzi is a Partner of EY. His practice focuses on advising national and international clients on commercial law and deals and, in particular, on extraordinary transactions such as mergers, acquisitions, demergers, joint ventures, and divestments in various sectors (fashion, energy, chemical, rail transport, automotive, real estate). Dario also has a wealth of experience advising on legal matters of a civil and commercial nature as well as providing assistance on ordinary corporate issues.

Ekaterine Kiknadze

Senior Manager

Elena Carpani

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.

Elene Sulkhanishvili

Senior Manager

Gabriela Edreva

Senior Consultant, an attorney-at-law

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.

Gustavo Adolfo Lorenzo

Associate Partner

Halyna Khomenko

Associate Partner

Herman De Wilde

Senior counsel

Igor Chufarov

Partner, Head of Transfer Pricing and International Tax

Irina Yaneva

Manager heading the Regulatory, Data Privacy, AML and Healthcare and Life Sciences practices of EY Law from 2015, an attorney-at-law

Iryna Kovalenko

Senior Associate

Iryna Kalyta

Associate Partner

Iván Azinovic

Head of the Real Estate practice

Jan Decorte

Associate Partner

Jean-Pascal Boutin

Partner

Julian Balson

Partner

Junzaburo Kiuchi

EY Law Japan (EY 弁護士法人) Managing Partner / Head of Transaction Law practice

Lindsey Clare

Senior Counsel

Lora Terzieva

Senior Consultant, an attorney-at-law

Luigi Neirotti

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.

Marco Magenta

Marco Magenta joined EY in 1995, was promoted Partner in 2007 and is currently Tax & Law Managing Partner for Italy. During his career, he held roles of greater responsibility in the Mediterranean region (Italy, Spain and Portugal), becoming Operations Leader in 2019, Italy Tax & Law Managing Partner from 2016 to 2019, Chairman of the EY Tax & Law firm and COO of EY Italy. Marco, 55, holds a degree in Business Administration from Bocconi University in Milan. Over the years, he gained significant experience in tax advisory, serving Italian and global companies operating in several industries, including consumer products & retail, fashion, life science, media and telecommunications, industrial products and automotive.

Margarita Salas

Partner Principal

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.

Martin Mamalev

Senior Consultant, an attorney-at-law

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 Odello

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; 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 issue; 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.).

Michelle T Davies

Partner | Global Sustainability Law Lead

Milen Raikov

EY Tax and Law Partner, an attorney-at-law. Certified Information Privacy Professional CIPP/E. He is a Board Member of the Automotive Cluster in Bulgaria, a chairman of the Tax and Finance Committee of AmCham in Bulgaria.

Mitchell Moss

Partner | Indirect Tax Disputes Lead

Olena Dreval

Senior Associate

Olga Gorbanovskaya

Partner, Head of People Advisory Services in Ukraine

Oriana Granato

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.

Peter Suykens

Partner

Philip Peerens

Associate Partner

Plamena Deliyska

Senior Consultant, an attorney-at-law

Ramón Palacín

Managing Partner and Head of the International Tax and Transfer Pricing practice

Raúl García

Head of Labour and Employment

Rebeka Kleytman

Manager heading the Banking& Finance, Insolvency & Restructuring and Employment practices of EY Law from 2018, an attorney-at-law

Renato Giallombardo

Renato Giallombardo is a Partner of the firm and the M&A, Private Equity, Venture Capital Law Leader for EY TAX & LAW ITALY. He joined EY in February 2021 after a 30+ years career at Gianni & Origoni – where as a Partner, he held a number of senior roles including Managing Partner of the Bologna and Abu Dhabi offices, Head of Venture Capital, Co-Head Private Equity, and as MENA Region Coordinator. A true Statesman of the profession with a strong network of clients and relations all over the world, he is widely recognized both nationally and internationally as one of the most senior Italian business lawyers - active since 1990 – and for his prominent work on numerous top level M&A transactions throughout his career - which has seen him close 200+ M&A and Private Equity matters in a variety of industrie including infrastructure, healthcare, food, motorways, airports, real estate, telecom etc. Renato Giallombardo is recognized as a pioneer of the business law practice in Italy and today, as an active member of the EY team, as a disruptive and innovative lawyer giving a boost to a new way to interpret and manage the profession by integrating tools and services beyond the ordinary practice, meeting new needs and expectations of 4.0 clients.

Rob McNabb

Partner

Simeón García-Nieto

Leading Partner of the M&A practice in Barcelona

Simon Collier

Partner | EY Global Energy Law Co-Leader

Stefania Radoccia

Labor lawyer with twenty years of experience in labor law and industrial relations, Stefania Radoccia was managing partner from July 2019 to April 2024. Member of the European Employment Lawyers Association (EELA), of the Italian Association of Labor Lawyers (AGI) and of the Board of American Chambers of Commerce in Italy, she is the author of relevant publications and articles on labor law and speaker at national and international conferences.

Svetlin Adrianov

Executive director of EY Law from 2018, Associate Partner, an attorney-at-law. He has been an active member of a number of working groups on legislative changes in the fields of commercial law, insolvency and competition. He is an author of a number of publications in the field of competition, antitrust and commercial law in international and local media. He is registered mediator with the Bulgarian Ministry of Justice and an Arbitrator with the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the DBIHK. He is also the Chair of the specialized committee “Compliance” at the DBIHK and top ranked by leading directories in the fields of EU & Competition Law, Antitrust, Financial and Corporate and Dispute resolution.