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Studio Legale Corte

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Studio Legale Corte is a boutique firm in food law that offers impressive knowledge of the food industry, including the production, packaging and marketing of food products. It is well known for its specialism in criminal law - it assists clients in both civil and criminal cases including regulatory breaches. It also assists clients with due diligence work in relation to M&A transactions. The practice is led by the 'exceptional' Paola Corte, whose expertise spans all technical and legal aspects of food and beverage composition, labelling and advertising. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of the European Food Law Association. Co-head Elena Corte has particular expertise in criminal matters concerning fraud, counterfeiting and non-genuine or contaminated food sales.  

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Testimonials

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  • ‘Extremely efficient and reliable.’

  • ‘Paola Corte is very good and knowledgeable in food law. She is my preferred contact in Italy.’

  • ‘Best market knowledge, great lawyers, always top up to date.’

  • ‘Paola Corte is exceptional.’

  • ‘High expertise and reliability in their area of competence. Unusually responsive and definitely very reliable.’

  • ‘Superb expertise in association with total flexibility and the capability to see beyond the pure legal matter.’

  • ‘Excellent knowledge of EU and Italian food law, solution oriented advice.’

Work highlights

  • Advised multiple produces, large scale retailers and mass caterers on the development of new products, food production processes, food composition and labelling issues, and revised their HACCP manuals.
  • Assisted multiple large-scale retailers and producers in numerous criminal proceedings due to sampling of food products which resulted to have parasites, harmful bacteria, or plant protection products exceeding allowed limits.
  • Provided strategic legal advice on matters related to sustainability, in light of imminent legislation changes, to aid clients direct investments tactically when sourcing ingredients, developing new products, reformulating existing products, and pursuing certifications, for future positioning and marketing purposes.

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Elena Corte
Studio Legale Corte
Elena Corte is a highly specialized food lawyer. Her activity concentrates on offering judicial and extrajudicial legal assistance to food business operators.  She has highly specialized technical skills in food safety and hygiene. As a criminal food lawyer, Elena assists defendants in criminal proceedings related to food, the most common being food fraud or crimes due to breaches in food safety and hygiene regulations. In addition, Elena assists food companies in challenging regulatory sanctions related to the marketing of food and beverages, breaches of HACCP procedures, and labelling and advertisement of food and other consumer goods. Elena assists companies in product withdrawals, recalls, RASFF procedures due to health hazards for consumers. She has wide experience in the management of crises with important media resonance. In assisting food companies and large scale retailers, Elena has developed specific expertise in dealing with other sectors which are strictly related to food (food contact material, toys, petfood, etc.) and environmental matters (waste, discharges, etc.) . Studio Legale Corte is also ranked in the Italian Forbes 100 Legal Professionals list, and both Elena Corte and Paola Corte were personally mentioned.
Paola Corte
Studio Legale Corte
Paola Corte is a highly specialized food lawyer. Her activity concentrates on offering legal advice and judicial assistance to food business operators.  She has highly specialized legal knowledge and technical skills relating to food production and communication with consumers. As a consultant, Paola assists food business operators in developing products and creating the communication campaigns, by  offering legal advice related to the legal compliance of  food composition, production techniques, labelling, advertising, distribution and administration of food and beverages and similar products. The same activity is carried out for food related products (such as food contact materials) and other consumer goods (pet food, toys, etc.) Paola assists food business operators and trade associations in assessing the impact of draft and new legislation. Paola carries out defensive activity in the courts, both by challenging regulatory sanctions imposed by supervisory bodies on food business operators, and by defending defendants in criminal proceedings relating to the production, marketing and administering of food and beverages, and other consumer goods. Paola Corte has held several courses for food business operators on food law and food labeling.  She is regularly asked to be a speaker or chair for national and international food-related conferences. Studio Legale Corte is also ranked in the Italian Forbes 100 Legal Professionals list, and both Paola Corte and Elena Corte are personally mentioned.

Practice head

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Paola Corte, Elena Corte

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