Practice Areas

The firm renders assistance and advice in favor of individuals and companies in any type of arbitration proceedings (national and international) relating to commercial matters. The firm’s lawyers have also been entrusted both as arbitrators and as president of arbitration panels in several proceedings.

Since 2005 the firm has been assisting insurance companies and several UK syndicates in insurance matters and the related court proceedings and mediation proceedings (which are handled by the firm’s lawyers on the basis of the merits of the dispute and their specific areas of practice) concerning inter alia public and private contracts for the construction of buildings, liability of company directors and auditors, proceedings in corporate matters, proceedings against insurers due to non-payment of indemnities, lawsuits in labor matters started by employees against the insured employer, etc..

The firm renders assistance and advice in favor of companies with particular reference to lawsuits relating to contractual matters (among others: construction contracts, supply of goods and services, purchase and sale agreements, leasing agreements, tenancies, commodatum, etc.) as well as lawsuits relating to real estate and issues connected to industrial plants): the foregoing both in court proceedings and in arbitration proceedings. The firm also assists clients in contractual / extra-judicial matters related to commercial contracts (among others: license agreements, supply agreements, franchising agreements, purchase and sale agreements, intellectual property agreements, etc.) and real estate (including lease / tenancy agreements).

The firm renders assistance and advice with particular reference to lawsuits relating to the liability of directors and auditors, as well as to claw-back actions. The firm’s lawyers have been entrusted several times by the bankruptcy division of the Milan Court as counsel to assist bankruptcy procedures in the above cited lawsuits/actions.

The firm assists partnerships, companies and corporations in court proceedings and in arbitration proceedings: the foregoing with particular reference to lawsuits relating to the liability of managing and auditing bodies, challenges of company decisions as well as to civil and commercial contractual matters connected to corporate activities. The firm also assists clients in extra-judicial matters (incorporation of companies, by-laws, shareholders’ agreements, etc.).

The firm renders assistance and advice in favor of individuals and companies in connection to lawsuits relating to challenges of termination of employment (individual and collective), restructuring plans, claims connected to the juridical qualification of the labor relationship, etc.. The firm also assist clients in the negotiation of labor / employment agreements.

The firm renders assistance and advice in proceedings relating to the protection of intellectual property rights, patents, trademarks and informatics rights, as well as to acts of unfair competition: the foregoing before Italian courts, the Italian Trademarks and Patents Office, the European Patent Office in Munich, the European Union Intellectual Property Office in Alicante (EUIPO), the Wipo Centre of Arbitration and Mediation in Geneva, etc..