Italian firm Gattai Minoli Agostinelli & Partners has announced the launch of a representative office in London. The firm has relocated corporate and real estate partner Cataldo Piccarreta to London to lead the new base in Mayfair. Associates Matilde Vergallo and Maria Pia Palma will support Piccarretta, joining from rival Italian firms CBA and Legance […]
Slaughter and May best friend Bonelli Erede Pappalardo has hired Allen & Overy’s (A&O) Italian senior partner Massimiliano Danusso and eight other lawyers in a boost to its City banking offering. Danusso will take over as managing partner of Bonelli’s London office from Andrea Carta Mantiglia and the team will be headquartered in London, although […]
Italian firm Carnelutti Studio Legale has forged a joint venture association with New York firm Altieri Esposito & Minoli to open in the US. The joint venture will operate as AEM Carnelutti Law Firm and will offer legal services to US investors in Italy and to Italian businesses in the US, particularly in the real […]
DLA Piper has added a team of nine to its Italian restructuring and litigation teams, just a week after losing three partners to Dentons in Milan. The team is led by restructuring partner Francesco de Gennaro. Ashurst counsel Luca Magrini and Alessandro Lanzi are both joining DLA as partners and the group includes two senior […]
Dentons has opened its first office in Italy with the hire of 21 lawyers, eight of whom have joined from DLA Piper. The Milan office will open with seven partners including former DLA Piper managing partner for Europe and Africa Federico Sutti. Of the seven partners three have left directly from DLA Piper, two have been […]
Italian firms, not content with just servicing their homegrown clients, have decided to stake out new territory in China, London and New York.
Italian TMT-focused firm Portolano Cavallo has launched in New York, hiring former DLA Piper partner Emily Maxwell to support its new offering. Portolano joins fellow Italian firm Chiomenti in New York. The office will be run by partner Yan Pecoraro, who is relocating from Milan. Maxwell joins Portolano after a number of years as a […]
It’s been a difficult few years for many Italian firms, but as this year’s shortlist for The Lawyer European awards demonstrates, they’ve risen to the challenge Italy is one of the most over-lawyered countries in the world. According to the most up-to-date statistics from the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE), there […]
King & Wood Mallesons SJ Berwin (KWM SJB) has hired finance and employment teams in Milan led by partners from two local firms in a significant boost for its Italian practice. The firm has picked up a team of five finance lawyers from d’Urso Gatti e Bianchi led by partner Giancarlo Castorino. Meanwhile it is starting […]
Italian M&A activity has hit a rough patch, forcing law firms to look for alternative sources of revenue In July 2012 Italian lawyers from Orsingher Ortu watched in disbelief as three big deals all fell through in the space of a week. Mario Ortu, head of Orsingher Ortu’s corporate and M&A group, witnessed the effect […]
Italian firm Gattai Minoli & Partners has hired a finance team of six from Latham & Watkins in one of the biggest team moves in Italy this year. The team of six – including two partners – is led by Riccardo Agostinelli. They will join their new firm as part of its finance practice and […]
A partner in DLA Piper’s Milan office is facing trial on corruption charges related to Milan’s hosting of next year’s ‘Expo 2015’ world fair. Giorgia Romitelli, an administrative law specialist, was arrested along with seven other individuals earlier this year on fraud-related charges. Last week (16 June) Milan prosecutors requested that the proceedings should move […]