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Kering is a French multinational group that acts as the holding company of several high profile fashion brands – including Italy’s Gucci, Bottega Veneta and Brioni labels – and despite each of these companies employing legal teams of their own, the legal support at holding company level for Kering is known as being outstanding. The Italian legal team of Kering is given high praise by a nominating source, who explains the team’s scope and quality: ‘The team covers a vast range of legal areas with great expertise. Chiara Molinari is a point of contact for both HR and compliance matters’. This expertise extends to all applicable practice areas of the law including IP, licencing, competition law and compliance with the appropriate regulations in each of the regions the company markets and sells its high quality products. The aforementioned Molinari is a senior legal counsel at the group in Italy and is supported by colleagues who are extremely capable in these aspects of the law, and will be required in the continued legal challenges posed by counterfeit products in the market that necessitate the protection of the company’s luxury brands.