Italian firm NCTM has increased its privacy, TMT and finance strength by merging with Rome firm Panetta & Associati. The move sees name partner Rocco Panetta join NCTM’s equity, while Giorgio Telarico and Domenico Rinaldi become salaried partners at the larger firm. Another five lawyers will also join NCTM. Panetta founded the firm in 2008, […]
Italian firm Gianni Origoni Grippo Cappelli & Partners has announced the hire of two lawyers, including partner Alessandro Stoppa, from Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker. Stoppa will make the move to Gianni Origoni in June along with counsel Alessio Giammarino. Both specialist in corporate finance within the real estate sector, and will sit in Gianni […]
Ashurst corporate partner Fabio Pizzocheri has joined Italian firm Grimaldi Studio Legale to launch its London office. Pizzocheri had been a partner at Ashurst since 2010, having joined the firm from now-defunct Dewey & LeBoeuf. Many of the current lawyers at Grimaldi are also ex-Dewey & LeBoeuf. The firm, formerly known as Grimaldi e Associati, […]
Linklaters’ battle with former Italian ally Gianni over the Credit Suisse-Parmalat negligence action highlights the dangers inherent in referring instructions When, in October 2001, Linklaters capital markets partner Simon Firth sent an email to Bruno Bartocci, then a London-based partner at Gianni Origoni Grippo & Partners, he could hardly have known he was setting the ball […]
Italian firms are emerging from their cloistered market and are now ready to launch a credible challenge in the international arena. Joanne Harris talks to the main contenders Italy in history has never been an internationally orientated country, not in any field – unless you go back to the Roman Empire,” says Luca Arnaboldi, senior […]
US firm Curtis Mallet-Prevost Colt & Mosle has appointed a new managing partner in its Milan office. Galileo Pozzoli, an energy law specialist who focuses on oil and gas, will replace Michele Edoardo Tamburini, who has served as managing partner since 2007. Pozzoli will begin his term on 1 May. He joined the Curtis Mallet-Prevost […]
Italian independent Labruna Mazziotti Segni has strengthened its antitrust team with hires from Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom and Bonelli Erede Pappalardo. Barry Hawk, who retired from Skadden’s partnership last year, joins Labruna Mazziotti as a senior counsel alongside former Bonelli of counsel Renato Nazzini, who becomes a partner. Both Hawk and Nazzini are […]
Italian independent Carnelutti is opening a Moscow office with the hire of two partners. The office will be managed by Valery Podpaly, a Russian lawyer who joins Carnelutti from KMPG, where he was a senior manager in the accountancy firm’s legal and tax department. Podpaly previously managed the Moscow office of Swedish firm Bech-Bruun before […]
Withers has hired a partner from Italian independent CBA Studio Legale as it bolsters its Milan office. Claudio Giordano joins the UK firm as a partner along with associate Nicola Baù. Withers has also hired associate Laura Costacurta from northern Italian firm Studio Legale Morresi, while two trainees join the Milan office as well. The […]
Eversheds’ Italian managing partner Riccardo Bianchini Riccardi could face eight years in prison in connection with the bankruptcy of Italian agricultural company Cirio, of which he was a director. Prosecutors in Rome last week recommended that Bianchini Riccardi should serve the sentence alongside a number of other Cirio executives, including his client Sergio Cragnotti. The […]
Italian independent Legance has appointed NCTM’s Paolo Pototschnig as a partner in its litigation and arbitration team. Pototschnig joins Legance along with a four-strong team including senior counsel Paola Figliodoni. Pototschnig’s hire comes as Italian firms are seeking to diversify in a weak market for transactional work. Legance’s recent partner appointments round included a promotion […]
Italian independent d’Urso Gatti e Bianchi has snared a team of six lawyers, including two partners, from banking boutique Marena Castorino d’Angelo & Fagotto. Marena Castorino name partner Giancarlo Castorino joins d’Urso Gatti’s Milan office along with junior partner Francesco Romeo and four associates. In a statement, d’Urso Gatti said the appointments marked a strengthening […]