The Firm is a recognized leader in assisting and advising Italian fiduciary companies and supports the work of trade associations.

It provides advice with respect to individual cases and operations, in the study and creation of new products and services, in the drafting of contracts, in the interlocution with Supervisory and Regulatory Authorities, in legal assistance in litigation cases, in extraordinary transactions between intermediaries.

The Firm also assists financial intermediaries in regulatory matters with high expertise in anti-money laundering matters.

In this area, the Firm carries out, among other things, assessments on anti-money laundering compliance with reference to organizational and procedural controls; advises and assists in structuring the safeguards required by current regulations, preparing and verifying manuals and procedures, drafting risk self-assessment exercises and corporate documentation to support activities in the anti-money laundering field.

Due to its strong litigation experience, the Firm also assists intermediaries in administrative and judicial proceedings related to alleged violations of anti-money laundering laws or regulations.

Assistance and advice in matters regulated by the Consolidated Banking Act and the Consolidated Finance Act complete the offerings to banking and financial intermediaries.

Thanks to more than a decade of experience with Italian and foreign intermediaries, the firm has developed specific know-how with reference to the issues of cross-border activities.

The Firm assists Italian and foreign Clients, entrepreneurs and multinational groups in the organization and operation of business activities, providing complete legal assistance in corporate matters, on behalf of shareholders and members of corporate bodies.

Assistance covers every stage of the life of companies, from incorporation to subsequent operation (ordinary and extraordinary) to liquidation, and includes support in drafting documentation related to corporate bodies’ resolutions.

The Firm also assists companies and entrepreneurs in the negotiation and drafting of commercial contracts (e.g., joint venture agreements, ATIs, supply contracts, tenders, distribution, agency, franchising, licensing, sponsorship, research and development, transfer and licensing of know-how), supporting the Client all the way to the execution.

The Firm assists intermediaries and companies, both Italian and foreign, in extraordinary transactions, such as sale and purchase of business and participations, mergers, demergers and corporate restructuring.

Assistance in such transactions is complete and, according to the Client’s needs, also includes the due diligence phase, particularly and among others, for the Firm’s areas of specialization, as well as assistance in negotiating with contractual counterparties up to closing.

The Firm has a well-established experience in assisting in judicial and arbitration matters, also thanks to the professional backgrounds of its partners, trained in academically-based backgrounds and distinguished by solid traditional experience.

The Firm specializes in the following main areas of litigation:

• • fiduciary litigation
  • Litigation in relation to trusts and trustee activities
  • litigation related to M&A transaction
  • banking and financial litigation
  • directors and auditors liability actions
  • Regulatory litigation, with particular reference to oppositions to administrative sanctions in the area of anti-money laundering and terrorist financing
  • commercial litigation
  • succession litigation
  • litigation related to bankruptcy proceedings

The Firm advises in the management of business crisis and assists its Clients in the preparation of the most suitable instruments to regulate it also in the related judicial phases (negotiated settlement, certified reorganization plans, debt restructuring agreements, approved restructuring plans, preventive agreements), as well as in the operations, including extraordinary ones, for the implementation of the selected instrument.

The Firm assists and advises companies and investors in the acquisition of assets from insolvent or distressed companies as part of proceedings already pending or to be proposed.

The Firm’s professionals assist and defend companies and institutional clients in disputes originating in insolvency matters, such as actions for revocation and damages, claims and oppositions to the state of liabilities, actions functional or consequent to the dissolution of contracts by the bodies of the proceedings.