Studio Ubertazzi

Restructuring and insolvency; Corporate and extraordinary transactions; Litigation and Arbitration; Contract Law; Banking Law; Intellectual Property.

Partner

Tommaso provides first-class legal advice, daily business assistance and management of the extraordinary operations mainly in the field of restructuring and insolvency law, corporate law, litigation, tax law and contract law. He is also associate professor of private law. Also, he is a director of Gessi S.p.A. and of Elmec S.p.A, two enterprises that are part of leading groups in the market.

Within the past two years, Tommaso Ubertazzi has assisted in a number of extraordinary operations, among which the most prominent are: a business acquisition with an asset value estimated at € 1.5 billion; five recovery operations of companies whose debts amounted to € 430 million; and a demerger worth a total of € 300 million. He has also led the team that drafted one of the biggest lawsuits in Italy in recent years, regarding directors’ liability, with an approximate value of € 860 million as well as arbitration with an approximate value of € 200 million.

Additionally, from 2018 to 2021, Ubertazzi provided day-to-day assistance to two large companies in extraordinary administration, whose debts amounted to around € 1.9 billion, as well as to other companies with a total annual turnover of approximately € 800 million. Further, Tommaso Ubertazzi has handled approximately 29 M&A and corporate reorganisation transactions; 36 debt restructuring operations (debt and arrangement recovery/restructuring plans). Moreover, he has assisted his clients before the Supreme Court in approximately 26 disputes relating to the liability of the Directors and Statutory Auditors of companies; and in over 43 tax disputes concerning tax inversion, VAT payments and transfer pricing.

Finally, he has assisted clients in contracts negotiation in foreign countries (often personally travelling to where the client’s business partners are based) including Luxembourg, Poland, France, Germany, Spain, Serbia, Macedonia, UK, USA, Russia, Qatar, UAE, St Maarten, Chile, Tunisia, Gabon, Congo, India, Singapore and China. Furthermore, he has assisted several clients in co-delegation before foreign jurisdictions, such as the Courts of Luxembourg, Frankfurt, Paris and Madrid. He has also carried out judicial activities before international courts.

Italian, English, French

Member of the Milan Bar, (Italy) since 2008. He has been authorized to practice before the Court of Cassation since 2015.

Member of the Management Board of AIDA (an Italian class A Journal of Copyright, Culture and Entertainment).

Graduated in Law,  110/110 maxima cum laude,University of Pavia, 2002.

From 2003 to 2008 visiting Researcher at numerous universities such as Fordham University (New York); Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law (Monaco); Stanford University under supervision of prof. Lawrence Lessig; Università degli Studi di Pavia; Universidad de Valladolid; Università degli Studi di Milano – Bicocca.

PhD in Law and Economics at the L.U.I.S.S., University of Rome, 2008.