Law Our staff of about 50 attorneys in Italy offers legal advice in all fields of company, commercial and administrative law, nationwide and internationally. Being a partner in a multi-disciplinary network, our firm can guarantee integrated support by specialists in different fields and administer legal counseling in coordination with other professional areas in which our firm and our network have gained qualified and specific expertise (e.g. tax issues, business & risk advisory issues, etc.). As partners of the Ernst & Young international network, we can also coordinate the management of international operations, providing guidance to international customers and proposing the most appropriate solutions, taking into account their specific requirements in accordance with local laws. Our activities include: M&A and Corporate Our firm follows all aspects of company law for Italian and foreign customers, listed and not listed, right from their incorporation and start of business, offering advice in the definition of governance structure or in preparation of by-laws and shareholders' agreements, as well as qualified company secretariat services (preparation of shareholders meeting minutes, proxies, and general arrangement of powers within the company to reflect the relationships among shareholders in company management).
Our experts can rely on their remarkable experience in providing assistance to companies for such non-routine transactions as take-overs, mergers and split-offs, as well as in the reorganisation and implementation of joint ventures, overseeing all their aspects including investment agreements or definition of the governance structure of the so-called special purpose entities.
In this area in particular, our “field” interaction with other Ernst & Young service lines (especially Tax and Transaction Advisory Services) makes us unique and allows us to streamline and sort out all coordination issues among the various interventions, with considerable cost and time savings.
Our firm has also earned a strong experience in the performance of due diligence operations according to an integrated approach and based on international standards, developed taking into account the individual and specific problems that might be encountered from time to time.
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Back to top Commercial Our firm has earned considerable expertise in the preparation and definition of all sorts of commercial agreements, including sales agreements, definition of general terms and conditions, provider agreements, contracts for works, supply agreements, deposit agreements, lease agreements, shipping agreements, franchising agreements, license agreements, engineering agreements, countertrade agreements, financial lease agreements, factoring agreements, advertising agreements, sponsorship agreements, entertainment and media agreements. Agreements are drafted and negotiated, from time to time, with the contribution of experts in the specific areas involved.
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Vera Sacchi
Tel. + 39 02 8514857
E-mail Vera Sacchi Back to top Restructuring Our experts have earned a qualified experience in this area, offering assistance, in particular, in the most important settlement with creditors procedures (also after the recent reform of Italian Bankuptcy Law). Their expertise covers transactions that also involves foreign subsidiaries allowed to file claims in such procedures in Italy.
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Francesco Marotta
Tel. + 39 06 85567807
E-mail Francesco Marotta Back to top Intellectual Property & Information Technology Our experts offer legal advice and support in the intellectual property area, particularly in Court and out of Court representation in controversies involving industrial and intellectual property rights.
We have worked for several national and international customers in various business sectors.
In this area we help with the procedures for the registration of trademarks, patents, domains, in the protection of know-how and copyright, as well as with the negotiation and drafting of the relevant exploitation agreement. We may also offer help in the jurisdiction of other countries through Ernst & Young's international network.
We offer a wide array of support and legal advice services also in the information technology area, with regard to law and to IT agreements, to privacy, data security and protection, e-filing and e-billing, and e-documents and e-signatures in general, as well as with certified e-mail.
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Luigi Neirotti
Tel. + 39 02 02 8514589
E-mail Luigi Neirotti Back to top Public Law Our experts offer legal counseling and advice in Public Law issues as well as in customary dispute management, including the negotiation and preparation of agreements with public administrations and tenders for public calls and contracts. We have also a sound experience in the public/private partnership area.
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Maria Cirillo
Tel. + 39 06 85567862
E-mail Maria Cirillo Back to top Real Estate Our experts offer legal counseling and advice in the real estate area thanks to the experience gained in major property divestiture and purchase operations.
In addition to offering conventional services, our experts are highly qualified in the following areas:
- Advice and legal support in town planning issues, incuding administrative disputes
- Legal support in the sale, purchase or lease of property
- Legal support in the purchase, opening and running of shopping malls, including drafting and negotiation of the related agreements
- Legal support in contracts for the construction of works and infrastructures.
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Raffaele Pendibene
Tel. + 39 06 85567844
E-mail Raffaele Pendibene Back to top Litigation & Arbitration Our experts offer legal support and advice services in the litigation and arbitration area. They represent and defend our customers before the competent judicial authorities at all stages of trial.
Our experts also have qualified skills and expertise in the management and settlement of controversies in national and international arbitrations.
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Francesco Marotta
Tel. + 39 06 85567807
E-mail Francesco Marotta Back to top Competition/Antitrust Our experts offer legal support and advice in all the areas of Italian and EU competition and anti-trust law in its various aspects, including reporting competition restrictive arrangements and abuses of dominant position to the Anti-Trust Authority.
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Raffaele Pendibene
Tel. + 39 06 85567844
E-mail Raffaele Pendibene Back to top Environment and Energy Law Our experts offer legal support and advice services in the area of environment and energy law, particularly in the management of its legal, financial, tax and anti-trust aspects.
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Maria Cirillo
Tel. + 39 06 85567862
E-mail Maria Cirillo Back to top Labour Law Our labour law experts offer legal support and advice in the definition of human resource management policies, in the verification of their compliance with the changing regulations, in the management of individual and collective relationships with the employees including in controversies, in new recruitment operations in national and international markets and in the implementation of corporate reorganisation operations.
In particular, our firm has gained considerable experience in complex operations and in the preparation of opinions, arrangements and agreements concerning:
- In Court and out of Court representation for labour controversies
- Review and preparation of stock option plans
- Review of pension schemes and social security matters in general
- Individual and collective agreements for subordinate, executive, term-contracted employment, etc.
- Support and advice on job safety issues (DL. 626/94)
- Protection of the employees' privacy, precautionary investigations and disciplinary sanctions
- Individual and collective dismissals
- Industrial relations.
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Stefania Radoccia
Tel. + 39 02 8514802
E-mail Stefania Radoccia Back to top Corporate Governance e Compliance Our experts offer legal support and advice in corporate governance aspects, administrative responsibility of companies pursuant to Legislative Decree no. 231/01 and bank compliance.
Al riguardo hanno assistito numerose società quotate e non, appartenenti a diversi settori industriali maturando rilevanti esperienze nelle attività di:
- Preparation of organisational models pursuant to Legislative Decree no. 231/2001, support to the Model Compliance Authority, preparation and implementation of training plans; support to the Authority in the performance of its functions (the so-called Technical Staffing functions) including in the event that the company is indicted
- Compliance with market abuse rules (register of insiders, personal transactions, suspect transactions) and with the so-called Savings Code (design and implementation of legal compliance model; amendments to the by-laws, appointment and policy of the responsible manager); we also followed the Savings Code compliance procedure for subsidiaries of the Ministry of Economy and Finance
- Review and development of the delegation and accountability system for corporate governance and for the job safety and health system pursuant to Legislative Decree no. 81/2008; preparation of annual corporate governance reports; definition of information flows from/to company bodies and/or functions within the framework of corporate governance
- Advice in the area of banking, financial and investment services, mostly concerning regulatory and surveillance aspects (Banca d’Italia and Consob); in particular: (i) compliance with MiFID and specific focus on conflicts of interest, review of the contracts/forms used with customers and business partners; (ii) compliance with EU rules on payment services (“PSD”) with specific focus on customer contract aspects; (iii) support to banks in the design and establishment of their Compliance Department.
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Roberto Di Mario
Tel. + 39 06 85567869
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