Pavia e Ansaldo

Partner Adriano Villa is country partner for Japan and heads the firm’s Japan Desk in Milan and the firm’s office in Tokyo, which he frequently visits during the year. He regularly represents large and medium-sized Japanese enterprises with operations in Italy or doing business with Italian companies as well as large Italian companies and SMEs with operations in Japan or doing business with Japanese companies. He has extensive experience of acquisitions, mergers, joint ventures and start-ups, as well as commercial negotiations and drafting of a broad range of contract types (licence, agency, distribution, etc), arbitration and general legal and business consultancy.

Alberto Bianco

Partner

Arianna Paternicò

Counsel Arianna gained significant experience in all areas of industrial and intellectual property, including trade marks and other distinctive marks, patents, design, know-how and trade secrets software, copyright, unfair competition, advertising, media and entertainment, IT, e-commerce, franchising and licensing contracts. Arianna advised Italian and foreign companies in complex litigation cases, precautionary and on merits, involving significant IP and unfair competition issues. Arianna also advised a large number of Italian and foreign companies, included private equity giants, in non-contentious advisory work relating to joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, licensing contracts, transfer of technology, distribution and franchising in fields requiring the management of complex portfolios of IP rights. She also gained significant experience in dispute resolution.

Bruno R. Pavia

Of CounselHead of Desk US

Carlo Del Conte

Partner

Carlo Emanuele Rossi

Partner Carlo Emanuele advises national and international corporations on corporate and M&A matters and corporations operating in the energy sector. He has a wealth of experience in franchise and distribution systems.

Caterina Luciani

Partner Caterina is specialised in the assistance to banks and financial institutions in credit assignments and securitisation transactions, Caterina has also gained consolidated experience in the context of the Law of Navigation and Transport having assisted and assisting airlines in the structuring, drafting and negotiation of contracts for the acquisition of aircraft and related components as well as in aircraft leasing transactions. She has also dealt with the negotiation of European loans to credit institutes, in consultation with Italian regions or ministries.

Claudio Cera

Partner

Daniele Carminati

Partner Head of Desk Middle East and Turkey

Enrico Del Guerra

Partner

Enrico Banchero

Partner

Eugenia Croce

Partner Eugenia is an expert in financial litigations and in disputes regarding unlawful activity by financial consultants.

Federico Cavazza Rossi

Partner

Filippo Fioretti

Partner

Fiorenza Resta

Partner Fiorenza has always focused her activity mainly on the Real Estate field assisting both Italian and foreign major investors in high value and juridically complex acquisition, leasing, development and divestment transactions (either as asset or shares deals). Her deep expertise and business oriented approach are much appreciated by her clients, which include some of the main players of the industry, both private and institutional entities, such as investment funds, pension funds, banks and developers investing in the whole range of asset classes on the market. She has been and still is a member of Boards of Directors of banks and investment management companies.

Francesco Vitella

Counsel Francesco is based in Milan and has notable expertise in a wide range of niche employment matters including secondments, non-compete agreements and agency contracts, transfer of businesses as a going concern and individual and collective dismissals. Francesco is also involved, as a litigator, in many high-stake labour court litigation matters

Gabriele Girardello

Partner

Gian Paolo Di Santo

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Giovanni Gigliotti

Partner Counsel in civil and commercial law disputes, Giovanni has got a broad experience in both contentious and non-contentious matters. His work involves advising on day-to-day corporate issues as well as individual and corporate asset protection & development, with a particular focus on shareholders and corporate governance issues, extraordinary transactions and corporate restructuring.

Giulio Brunelli

Of Counsel Giulio has a wide range of experience in the TMT sector having worked in international law firms in Brussels and Rome and being, until December 2018, responsible for Legal and Regulatory Affairs for Italy as well as being senior member of the Colt group, European Team “Compliance and Customer Propositions”. Giulio supports and offers advices to primary national and international clients who mainly operate in the electronic communications services (fixed and mobile voice, data and Internet), media and datacenter / housing services, Cloud, ISP and hosting services for regulatory commercial, contractual and competition issues, both in court and out of court.

Giuseppe Besozzi

Partner

Giuseppe Alessandro Galeano

Partner

Marco Jannon

PartnerMarco Jannon has a consolidated experience in EU taxation and transfer pricing matters. Marco has also developed a large experience on M&A transactions in the renewable energy industry

Marco Giustiniani

Partner Head of the Administrative and Environmental Departments, Marco works mainly out of our Rome and Milan offices. Since 2021, he has also been a member of the Firm’s Board of Directors. He advises domestic and international clients, both public and private, on a broad range of administrative law issues. In particular, he focuses on public tenders and contracts, both the public transport and public services sectors, electronic communications and the other regulated sectors, antitrust, Pharmaceutical law and Town Planning and Building law. He has also gained a meaningful experience as a litigator before the Council of State and the Administrative Regional Courts since the beginning of his career.

Maria Elena Armandola

Partner Counsel and arbitrator in domestic and international arbitrations, both ad hoc and administered proceedings; domestic litigation and counselling in commercial, corporate, defamation (civil aspects), unfair competition and advertising.

Maria Rosaria Raspanti

Senior Associate

Marina Santarelli

PartnerCounsel and arbitrator in domestic and international arbitrations, both ad hoc and administered proceedings; domestic litigation in commercial law, post acquisition, real estate, class action and follow-on disputes.

Mario Di Giulio

Partner Head of Desk Africa

Mario Joseph Abate

Of CounselHead of Desk USFocuses his activity on cross border transactions, private equity and M&A transactions. He assists foreign and national corporations with international joint ventures and startups in Italy or abroad and advises clients on a regular basis on trusts and foundation related matters, with particular emphasis on art, fashion and luxury markets,

Massimiliano Elia

Partner Massimiliano Elia has a wide and varied experience in financial and insurance matters, with particular regard to mergers and acquisitions and structured finance transactions. He provides legal assistance in structured finance, capital and debt markets for banks, public bodies, companies and individuals and is frequently appointed as an arbitrator, also in the capacity of chairman.

Maurizio Vasciminni

Partner

Meritxell Roca Ortega

Partner Meritxell is member of the Board of Directors of the Firm. She is based in Milan and Barcelona (Spain). She heads our leading Spanish desk in Milan and she is the Managing Partner of the Barcelona office.

Mia Rinetti

Partner

Milena Prisco

Partner With a solid experience in the sectors of tech M&A and Venture Capital, Milena is an active member of associations promoting the issues of ESG, gender parity and a member of international steering committees for the promotion of sustainable fashion. Milena Prisco, a corporate lawyer of two decades’ experience and a former head of Corporate and M&A at Studio Previti, joined the firm in Match 2022 to head our new Environmental Sustainability and Governance (ESG) department and to continue her corporate practice especially in the hi-tech industry. ESG compliance has rightly become a critical issue for investors, organisations and corporations across the globe. Milena’s hire brings the expertise of a lawyer of immense pedigree in the area, and superb experience in the venture capital and hi-tech sectors, whose knowledge of sustainable finance and niche areas of Italian ESG compliance such as the Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza (the PNRR - National Recovery Resilience Plan) will be an invaluable asset to our clients. Moreover, she provides assistance to listed companies and SMEs in relation to corporate governance policies, to corporations in the acquisition of the status of benefit companies, investment funds in ESG policies in investment processes, performs ESG due diligence in extraordinary transactions and sustainability strategies. With a long experience in M&A, mainly dealing with Italian and cross-border acquisitions in the form of share and asset deals, equity transactions, joint ventures, over the years Milena has specialized in extraordinary transactions in high tech sectors such as fintech, AI, life science, medtech and fashiotech, thanks to a long and consolidated experience in Venture Capital starting from the assistance to startup projects up to the advice to VC funds, scale up, club deal and nowadays listed companies in corporate venture capital operations through acquisitions, equity investments, convertible and semi-equity debt instruments (SFP), incentive and remuneration plans. She regularly advises on corporate law matters and provides assistance in the drafting of typical contracts and agreements in the hi-tech industry (e.g. SaaS, white label contracts). She is a lecturer in several masters and seminars in Italy, where she collaborate with prestigious universities and abroad and author of articles and publications on M&A, venture capital, ESG. She is a regular contributor of IBA for articles on M&A and ESG topics. She is a member of International Bar Association.

Paola Carlotti

Partner

Paolo Lupini

PartnerPaolo Lupini has extensive experience in listed companies regulation.

Roberto Iaia

Of Counsel Head of Tax Litigation He defends companies, entities and individuals in administrative pre-trial proceedings before all tax authorities and in tax trials before all the courts in Italy. He has gained particular expertise in tax trials before the Supreme Court of Cassation. Roberto also offers legal advice in international, European and Italian tax law.

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Managing Partner

Of Counsel Sveva has initially undertaken the study of international law working for law firms in France and Belgium, as well as studying at The Hague Academy of International Law to then specialize in Intellectual Property instead and especially Copyright. In 2009 she founded Idealex Legal Firm for Arts in Bologna. From 2014 to 2017 she has carried out her legal activity as Head of the Legal Department for Italy for the Spanish company Red Points, now leader in the worldwide market for the protection of online intellectual property and she has exported the activity to Japan, where for over 10 years she has been providing consultancy in the field of intellectual property and digital matters. In 2017 she set up Tutela Digitale Srl, a company specializing in brand and personal reputation. Since 2023 partner of Inxi Ltd, a Japanese company protecting intellectual property and brand reputation on line in Japan.