We provide assistance and in depth advice on the following areas:

• corporate governance;
• shareholders’ agreements;
• group of companies;
• joint ventures;
• company secretarial services;
• corporate finance transactions;
• spin-offs and split-ups;
• shareholders activism;
• private equity and venture capital (seed financing; start-up financing; growth capital; replacement capital; buy out; turnaround financing);
• M&A;
• commercial contracts;
• corporate and commercial litigation.

We regularly provide expert assistance and in-depth advice on all aspects of regulatory and corporate matters affecting banks and other financial institutions. Our expertise includes:

• licensing;
• shareholdings and acquisition of control;
• organisation and corporate governance;
• banking groups;
• supervision;
• liquidity and capital adequacy issues;
• conduct of business and banking operations;
• financial innovation and fintech;
• financial reporting and disclosure requirements;
• ESG;
• liquidation, resolution and transfer;
• banking, financial services and securities litigation;

We provide assistance and in-depth advice in all fields of industrial and intellectual property rights, for the regulation, exploitation and enforcement of the IP portfolio. Our expertise includes:

• trademarks, domain names and other distinctive signs;
• patents, utility models and industrial design;
• know-how and trade secrets;
• appellation of origin and geographical indications;
• copyright;
• software and databases;
• intellectual and industrial property law contracts: assignment and license agreements;
• transfer of technology agreements, R&D agreements;
• NDAs;
• contracts in the field of copyright, such as publishing, production and performing artist contracts;
• national and international commercial contracts (distribution, franchising, merchandising agreement);
• media (and social media) contracts;
• advertising: image rights exploitation agreements, web campaigns, testimonial dual sponsorship agreements;
• unfair competition.

On all aspects connected to intellectual property, we carry out due diligence activities, dealing with the evaluation of the legal issues concerning IP portfolio.

We represents Italian and foreign clients in litigation disputes (civil and administrative) in the different areas of intellectual property, also before the EU jurisdiction of EUIPO and UPC).

We provide assistance on matters related to the law of new technologies, by focusing on the legal aspects both in the development phase and in the application phase.

In particular, we provide assistance and advice on legal issues relating to:

• websites development;
• services rendered on the Internet and e-commerce;
• social networks;
• open innovation;
• web 3.0;
• blockchain;
• NFTs;
• artificial intelligence;
• information technology.

We provide assistance on data protection issues –  with particular reference to the compliance with GDPR (Reg. (EU) 2016/679) – drafting from time to time the documentation for the client’s business needs, in the light of privacy by design and privacy by default principles.

Our activities include:

• drafting of information to be provided and for the granting of consent;
• drafting of cookie policies;
• drafting of agreements with data controller’s employees;
• drafting of agreements with processors;
• drafting of joint controllers’ agreements;
• drafting of the registers of data processing activities and data protection impact assessments;
• assistance in the drafting of company policies on personal data and technical and organizational measures aimed at ensuring the security of data processing;
• assistance in the training of persons in charge of processing personal data;
• assistance in the communication to the authority;
• assistance in the transfer of personal data abroad.

We regularly represent clients, in court proceedings and arbitration, in complex and critical disputes, also cross-border, in the specific areas where we are active, such as commercial litigation, corporate disputes, regulatory defense, securities disputes, banking and financial services litigation, intellectual property law, new technologies law and data protection.

We handle disputes at all stages, from pre-suit counseling and investigations through proceedings and arbitration. Our aim is to minimize disruption for our clients, manage risk and avoid litigation, where possible.