CARNELUTTI - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Member of the Firm
Alessandro Asti is a member of the firm's Corporate and M&A department, where his practice focuses on domestic and cross-border transactions, private equity work, general commercial transactions and corporate governance. He advises clients in all phases of deals. He has extensive experience in the areas of domestic and international corporate acquisitions and disposals.
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Partner in CARNELUTTI Law Firm
Andrea Visentin is a partner in CARNELUTTI Law Firm. He is a member of the firm's corporate and M&A department where his practice focuses on both litigation and extra-judicial issues related to corporate matters. Handling both local and cross-border M&A and private equity deals, he advises on ordinary and extraordinary transactions.
He has accrued relevant expertise in the fields of litigation and arbitration of company law disputes, with specific focus on issues of corporate law, banking law and bankruptcy law, by assisting SMEs as well as major banks and investment funds.
Prior to joining Carnelutti Law Firm, Andrea worked for leading Italian law firms.
Andrea graduated in Law from the University of Bologna in 2006.
He also completed the postgraduate courses "Business Lawyer", Il Sole 24 Ore Business School (2012), and "Financial Markets Law", University of Milan (2015).
Andrea is fluent in English in addition to his native Italian.
Job Titles:
- Member of AREL
- Partner in CARNELUTTI Law Firm
- Real Estate
- Renata Ricotti and Filippo Galimberti Co - Wrote the Chapter on Italian Real Estate Regulation in Real Estate 2009, Published by Getting the Deal through.
- Renata Ricotti and Filippo Galimberti Co - Wrote the Chapter on Italian Real Estate Regulation in Real Estate 2011, Published by Getting the Deal through.
Benedetta Amisano is a partner in CARNELUTTI Law Firm. She is a member of the firm's corporate and M&A department, where her practice focuses on real estate, hospitality, M&A, private equity and corporate.
She is a Top Rated Real Estate Lawyer, her 20-year experience is recognized by the national and international legal markets, and her specialization in target industries provide Benedetta with an outstanding level of knowhow and technical sophistication.
Benedetta is a member of AREL (Associazione Real Estate Ladies) and served as its vice president from 2008 to 2010.
Benedetta Amisano moderated the round table Role Models in the real estate industry on first day of the General Assembly of Arel - Associazione Real Estate Ladies that took place in Milan on November 25 and 26, 2022. The table brought together Federica De Leva, Partner of GBPA Architects, Paola Delmonte, Corporate Development of Redo SGR spa Società benefit, Maria Grazia Lanero, Partner of GOP (Gianni & Origoni), Elisa Manerba, CEO of Manerba spa, and Micaela Musso, Managing Director and General Manager of Abaco Team - Gabetti group.
Benedetta Amisano, Renata Ricotti and Filippo Galimberti co-wrote the Chapter on Italian real estate regulation in Real Estate 2011, published by Getting the Deal Through.
Benedetta Amisano is chosen as one of the subjects for the book "Real Estate: 30 talenti per il futuro" (Real Estate: 30 Talents for the Future) written by Guglielmo Pelliccioli, a major expert in the real estate industry, and published by Daily RE. The author selected promising young professionals operating in the real estate arena and created profiles.
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate
- Member of Carnelutti 's Labor
Prior to joining Carnelutti, Bianca worked in the labor department of top-tier Italian law firms.
She graduated from the University of Milan.
Bianca was admitted to the Milan Bar in October 2017.
She is fluent in English, in addition to her native Italian.
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate
- Member of Carnelutti 's Corporate
Camilla Pozza is a member of Carnelutti's Corporate and M&A/Private Equity departments. Her practice focuses mainly on domestic and cross-border transactions, commercial transactions and general corporate advisory.
She advises companies and private equity funds in the areas of corporate law, including mergers, acquisitions, asset deals, joint ventures, shareholders' agreements and corporate governance.
Camilla graduated cum laude from the University degli Studi of Milan.
She was admitted to the Italian Bar in 2017.
Of Italian mother tongue, Camilla is fluent in English and Spanish.
Job Titles:
- of Counsel
- Counsel to CARNELUTTI Law Firm
- the Concept of "on - Going Cooperation, Service and / or Supply Agreements / March 14, 2019
Carlo Lucioni is of counsel to CARNELUTTI Law Firm. He is a member of the administrative law department, where his practice focuses on building and town planning law, public procurement, public services and ports and harbour law, both in contentious and non-contentious matters.
He has developed significant expertise in the main fields of administrative law, working in niche public law/administrative law firms, where he has assisted national and international clients in the assessment and development of projects in the retail sector as well as in the context of public tender participation and related judicial claims before the specialist administrative courts/tribunals.
Since 2003, Carlo has been an Adjunct Professor of Public Law and Constitutional Law, firstly at the Luigi Bocconi University in Milan and then at the LIUC University in Castellanza (Varese).
Carlo completed his Ph.D. in Constitutional Law at the Università degli Studi di Milano in 2005 and was admitted to the Italian Bar in 2009.
He is the author of several publications in the field of constitutional and administrative law and is a frequent and much sought after speaker at numerous conferences and seminars in his subject area.
He is fluent in English, in addition to his native Italian.
Job Titles:
- of Counsel
- Counsel to CARNELUTTI Law Firm
Cecilia Cagnoni Luoni is of counsel to CARNELUTTI Law Firm. She is a member of the firm's corporate and M&A department, where her practice focuses on cross-border and Italian mergers and acquisitions, corporate and commercial contracts.
Cecilia has also acquired extensive experience in the media, telecommunications and entertainment industries, advising leading European clients on various business transactions.
She has lectured on corporate law at LIUC, University of Castellanza and on M&A transactions at the University of Insubria, in Varese. Cecilia has contributed to studies for the European Community (DG Education and Culture) on the impact in Italy of the regulations on TV advertising as contained in the Television Without Frontiers Directive, and on the impact of advertising and teleshopping on minors under Italian regulations.
Before joining Carnelutti, she worked at the Birmingham office of the international law firm Wragge & Co. She was admitted to the Italian Bar Association in 1997.
She was selected by PWA Milan as a member of the "Ready-for-board women". Also in 2023, she has been recognised by Best Lawyers among "The Best Lawyers in Italy" for her work in Corporate Law.
She speaks English and French, in addition to Italian.
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Member of the Italian Bar of Dottori Commercialisti and of the National Chartered Accountants & Tax Experts' Society
Daniela has been a member of the Italian Bar of Dottori Commercialisti and of the National Chartered Accountants & Tax Experts' Society since 1994 and she is registered with the Roll of Professional Auditors.
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Action for Company Liability by Minority Shareholders / November 6, 2007
- Corporate Disclosures and Protection of Minority Shareholders in Public Companies / March 6, 2014
- Equity Warrant and General Rules on Contracts
- Information Rights in Listed Companies / March 6, 2016
- Investment Securities - Uniform Commercial Code / March 6, 2004
- Partner in CARNELUTTI Law Firm
- Shareholder Derivative Suits / March 6, 2010
- Shareholder Derivative Suits: Comparative Analysis / March 6, 2009
- the Eclipse of Legal Capital and the "Covid" Legislation in Italy / September 8, 2020
- the Reform of European Insolvency Regulation / March 6, 2015
Dario Latella is a partner in CARNELUTTI Law Firm. He is member of the corporate and M&A department, where his practice focuses on Corporate Law, Regulatory and Internal Controls in listed Companies, Restructuring and Bankruptcy Law.
Since 2007, he has been Professor of Business Law at the University of Naples and, currently also, of Messina, where he teaches European and Italian Company Law. He is Visiting Professor in many high ranked Universities all over the world, such as Oxford, Cambridge, Durham, East Washington, Madrid, Cadiz, Warsaw, "Luigi Bocconi", and is a member of the editorial board of several referred national and international law journals.
He advises national and international corporations on corporate and restructuring matters, restructuring and winding-up procedures, IPOs, shareholders' agreements, corporate governance and corporate litigation. He is experienced in advising state-owned corporations on issues triggered by the sc "Madìa Law n. 175/2016." He assists corporations before the Italian Judicial lower (since 1997) and higher Courts (since 2010), as he is a member of the Italian Bar.
Dario has a long track record in contractual claims, corporate litigation, managers' liability, shareholders' decisions, minority shareholders' protection, professional liability and tort, financial statements and balance sheet policies.
Moreover, he assists corporations in improving "231 Models", internal procedures of governance, internal audit, related parties transactions, remuneration policies and IAS-IFRS rules, and he is part of several boards as president of internal committees and/or independent director.
Dario is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences and has written extensively on topics within his areas of practice: his books on Shareholders' Derivative Litigation (Giappichelli, 2007) and The Internal Control System in Company Law (Giappichelli, 2018) are the sole legal monographs on these topics.
Dario is a member of the European Corporate Governance Institute and is currently visiting Durham Law School as Professor of European Company Law (2019).
He speaks English, Spanish and German, in addition to his native Italian.
Dario Latella authored the contribution Concordato in continuità e contratti pubblici: note a margine del CCII, in vista del nuovo codice degli appalti published in number 4/2023 of the review Il Fallimento, by IPSOA Wolters Kluwer. The new Public Procurement Code (Leg. Dec. no. 26/2023) reopened the debate on the going concern of companies that start proceedings for an arrangement with creditors, as reshaped by the Code of Crisis (Leg. Dec. 14/2019). In his article, Dario Latella gives an initial overview of the new rules.
Job Titles:
- Adjunct Professor
- Lecturer
- Partner
- Partner in CARNELUTTI Law Firm
Davide Albonico is a partner in CARNELUTTI Law Firm. He is a member of the firm's tax department. He is an "Italian dottore commercialista" chartered accountant, a tax expert and statutory auditor.
His practice focuses on advising foreign multinational groups (MNE), industrial and commercial companies, private clients (HNWI), innovative startups and financial institutions, regarding national and international tax compliance and consultancy (direct and indirect taxes), reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions.
Davide also has wide experience in accounting (Italian and IFRS GAAP application), Transfer Pricing, permanent establishment, cross border transactions, and assist clients on corporate compliance, Law 231/2001, and in the main procedures to apply for tax benefits.
Davide's experience also includes tax disputes and the negotiation of settlements with the Italian tax authorities.
He is a member of the Italian Bar of Dottori Commercialisti and of the National Chartered Accountants & Tax Experts' Society, and he is also a member of CFE Tax Advisers Europe and International Fiscal Association - IFA Italia.
Davide is adjunct professor and lecturer in "Planning and tax and corporate consultancy" at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Milan-Bicocca, regularly writes on tax and corporate matters, ranked for 2021 and 2022 as tax expert in the "Legal 500".
He holds board of directors, statutory auditors committee and supervisory body positions with several Italian and international private and pubic companies.
Davide speaks English and French, in addition to his native Italian.
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Partner in CARNELUTTI Law Firm
Elisabetta Mina is a partner in CARNELUTTI Law Firm. She is a member of the firm's intellectual property and litigation departments.
She has a long-consolidated experience in protecting and managing IP rights, with particular focus on Media, Entertainment, Cinema & TV, Advertising, digital markets and tech assets.
She works with digital technology businesses, providing strategic and technical legal advice on digital content technology, protection of software, algorithms and data, user-generated creation and licensing, audiovisual works and content for cinema, television and media platforms, protection of property rights in judicial proceedings and national and international arbitration, advertising and branded entertainment, with particular focus on the forms of non-conventional web marketing.
She is an expert in financing and structuring national and international productions and co-productions, film, television and web production for production companies, broadcasters and companies organizing large live events.
She assists artists and entertainment personalities for the exploitation of their works through the web and new technologies, and for the protection of image and personality rights.
She is Vice President of the Control Committee of Italy's Institute of Advertising Self-Regulation (IAP).
She obtained an LL.M. in IP Law at King's College London (2003) and is lecturer and speaker in Masters and Conferences at the Luigi Bocconi University and at Il Sole 24Ore Business School.
Prior to joining Carnelutti, Elisabetta founded the Milalegal Ip law firm in 2012.
She was admitted to the Italian Bar in 1994.
She is fluent in English in addition to her native Italian.
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Partner in CARNELUTTI Law Firm
Fabio Fusco is a partner in CARNELUTTI Law Firm. He is a member of the firm's tax department, where his practice mainly focuses on advising the top management of industrial and commercial companies regarding tax and company law matters, as well as on reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions at a national and international level.
He holds board of statutory auditors positions with several Italian and International industrial companies. He is a member of the Supervisory Body under legislative decree no. 231/01 of an important Italian School of Management.
Fabio is a member of the Italian Bar of Dottori Commercialisti, of the National Chartered Accountants & Tax Experts' Society and he is registered on the Roll of Professional Auditors.
Fabio speaks English, in addition to his native Italian.
Job Titles:
- of Counsel
- Counsel to CARNELUTTI Law Firm
Federico Modugno is Of Counsel to CARNELUTTI Law Firm. He joined CARNELUTTI as an Associate in the Corporate Department in June 2019, after working in international commercial law firms and gaining experience in both contentious and non-contentious matters.
As a dual-qualified Italian lawyer and Solicitor of England and Wales, Federico advises on contentious issues relating to international acquisition transactions, and on the interpretation and drafting of English law governed commercial contracts.
A cum laude graduate of the University of Bologna Law School, he obtained an LLM in International Financial Law from King's College London and the GDL and LPC from BPP University, London.
Federico is a Mergers and Acquisitions Law lecturer at LIUC University Carlo Cattaneo, Castellanza (Varese) and co-author, with Luca Arnaboldi, of The Law and Practice of Private Company Share Acquisitions in Italy: A Student's Guide (Le Monnier Università 2021).
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Partner of CARNELUTTI Law Firm
Filippo Grillo is a partner of CARNELUTTI Law Firm. He is a member of the firm's corporate and M&A department, where his practice focuses on Italian and cross-border M&A transactions and on private equity and structured finance transactions. Filippo has broad experience in the areas of national and international corporate acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures and investments, including in all real estate aspects of mergers and acquisitions, leasing and real estate finance. Filippo also specializes in the capital markets sector, advising clients on listing and reverse takeover procedures.
Filippo assists national and international operators, mutual funds and real estate companies and has gained significant experience in general commercial transactions, having provided day-to-day assistance to major companies in the industrial, real estate and management training areas.
In 2016 he was seconded to the firm's New York Office and gained experience working in international M&A transactions.
Filippo graduated in law in 2009 from Università Commerciale "L. Bocconi" of Milan and was admitted to the Italian Bar in 2012. He is fluent in English, in addition to his native Italian.
Job Titles:
- of Counsel
- Senior Partner of ICT Legal Consulting
Floriana Francesconi is Senior Partner of ICT Legal Consulting (ICTLC) and of Counsel to Carnelutti Law Firm.
Since the start of her professional career as a lawyer, Floriana has worked in the area of criminal law with specific reference to corporate crimes and work-related injuries.
Operating in the field of administrative liability under Legislative Decree no. 231/2001, she implemented and developed her own approach when dealing with matters of liability and control measures, concerning development, management and organizational aspects.
She provides consultancy services to both listed and unlisted companies, private and public, with respect to the adoption of codes of ethics and conduct and the drafting of the relative Organization, Management and Control Models. She is a member of both collegial and monocratic Supervisory Boards.
She carries out consulting activities and gives data protection trainings to companies operating in various sectors including the engineering, services and pharmaceutical sectors, among others. In particular, she deals with data protection compliance, carrying out risk assessments and gap analyses aimed at the adoption of Data Protection Compliance Frameworks and related activities (action plans, procedures, documentation, etc.) pursuant to the General Data Protection Regulation and the Italian Personal Data Protection Code, Legislative Decree 196/2003 and subsequent amendments and additions.
Floriana provides legal advice to numerous private Italian companies active in various sectors following corporate and commercial issues, contracting, etc., from a prevalently managerial and employer's perspective.
She has a degree in Civil Procedural Law in the field of arbitration and acts as an arbitrator; Floriana is a qualified lawyer admitted to the Bologna Bar Association.
Job Titles:
- of Counsel
- Co - Edited With Prof. L. Radicati Di Brozolo the Book "the Single Market in Services", Giuffré, Milan ( Contributors
- Co - Edited With Prof. L. Rubini the Book "Challenges of Development
- International Protection of the Olympic Properties
Francesco Bestagno has currently suspended his collaboration with Carnelutti Law Firm, since he was appointed Legal Advisor to the Permanent Representation of Italy to the European Union in Brussels.
Before being appointed to his current role, he was of counsel to CARNELUTTI Law Firm, where his practice focused on international business law & arbitration.
He is a Full Professor of EU Law and of International Trade Law at the Faculty of Law of the Catholic University of Milan.
He coordinated and taught at the School of Specialization for the Legal Professions, Catholic University of Milan. He was an international lecturer too, and member of several international editorial committees.
Previously, he had served as Legal Advisor for the Italian Foreign Affairs Ministry within the Programme for favouring Vietnam's Accession to the WTO (2005, 2006), and as Expert for the Holy See in Diplomatic Conferences at the Council of Europe (2017, 2019). He was appointed on a list of Principal Legal Advisors to the European Commission in 2003.
Francesco completed his Ph.D. in International Economic Law ("Bocconi" - Bergamo -Turin) in 1995, and he has been Visiting Scholar at Geneva University (CH) and Visiting Professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University, at Wuhan University and at Zhongnan University (China).
He obtained his J.D. summa cum laude from the Catholic University of Milan in 1989, and was admitted to the Italian Bar in 1992.
He is fluent in English and French, in addition to his native Italian.
Francesco Bestagno will teach a lesson in the Specialization Course in European Union Law that is co-organized by the Milan Bar of Lawyers, the Higher School for Lawyer Training, the Union of European Lawyers and the University of Milan. Francesco's lesson will be titled "Le fonti del diritto dell'Unione (Trattati, Carta dei diritti fondamentali, principi generali, accordi internazionali, atti di diritto derivato)", ("The sources of EU Law (Treaties, Charter of Fundamental Rights, General Principles, International Agreements, Secondary Legislation").
Francesco Bestagno held 8 hours of lectures on the topic "The free movement of Goods in the EU Market" at University Ca' Foscari, Venice, in the Master Course "International Business, Arbitration and Tax Law".
Francesco Bestagno wrote the article "La tutela della salute tra competenze dell'Unione europea e degli Stati membri" (The Protection of Health between Competences of the European Union and of Member States), published in "Studi sull'integrazione europea" (Studies on European Integration) (2017).
Francesco Bestagno wrote the article "ll risarcimento dei danni per la violazione delle norme in materia di Aiuti di Stato" (Compensation for damages for breaches of Rules on State Aids), in Dizionario sistematico del diritto della concorrenza (Systematic Dictionary of Competition Law), edited by L. PACE, Jovene, Naples.
Francesco Bestagno co-edited with prof. L. Rubini the book "Challenges of Development: Asian Perspectives", V&P Catholic University Press, Milan, 2010, reviewed in The Asian Journal of International Law 2013, and in The International Spectator 2011.
Francesco d'Urso is of counsel to CARNELUTTI Law Firm.
He is a member of the firm's Family Business department and has developed extensive expertise before domestic and international ordinary and arbitration courts, handling high profile civil and corporate litigation matters, including actions against board of directors' and shareholders meetings' resolutions, liability lawsuits against corporate bodies, civil liability, intellectual property, and defamation. His practice also includes drafting and negotiating contracts in various different fields.
He graduated in law from the University of Milan and was admitted to the Italian Bar in 1995. He has been admitted to practice before the Italian Supreme Court since 2013.
He is a native Italian speaker and is fluent in English and French.
Job Titles:
- Partner at CARNELUTTI Law Firm
Francesco Grilletta is a partner at CARNELUTTI Law Firm. He is a member of the firm's litigation department, where his practice focuses on in court litigation, particularly in the areas of banking law, Energy & Utilities and factoring.
Job Titles:
- Partner
- "the Concept of "Latest Generation" for Medical Devices / March 6, 2019
- Administrative Jurisdiction on the Italian Certification of Labour Compliance ( DURC )
- Building Licenses, Always Apply for an Extension before the Expiration Date
- Exclusion from the Public Tendering Procedure and Application of Guidelines No. 6 of ANAC / October 5, 2017
- Landscape Compatibility Clearances in the Relation Between the State and Regions / February 28, 2019
- Multiple Bid or Improving Bid? Clarification from the Council of State / February 12, 2020
- Owner Re - Enters into Possession Limits Any Remedying Acquisition under Art. 42 - Bis / October 4, 2016
- Partner in CARNELUTTI Law Firm
- Recruitment Exams for Public Servants / December 5, 2019
- Resolution No. 194 / 2018 of the Regional Executive Council of Tuscany
- Right to Access Environmental Information / March 20, 2015
- Safety Charges / March 20, 2015
- the Acquisition Against No Consideration for Inclusion in the Municipality 's Assets Against a Not Guilty Owner Is Unlawful
- the Council of State Rejected the Appeal Filed by the Region of Sardinia / February 14, 2020
- Time Limit to File Compensation Claim With Administrative Courts
- Time Limits to Establish Compatibility of Fuel Stations: Proper Application of LD N.98 / 2011
- Unlawful Occupancy of Public Areas
Francesco Paolo Francica is a partner in CARNELUTTI Law Firm. He is a member of the firm's administrative law department and has been working for almost 20 years in the area of administrative law.
His practice focuses on building and town planning, telecoms, antitrust, regulatory law, commercial authorizations, as well as works contracts, utility contracts and agreements with government entities, his workload comprising both contentious and non-contentious matters. Francesco also has an extensive practice in the energy field, in particular with regards to matters related to land use and the environment.
He is a regular contributor to the leading business online magazine "Diritto24" edited by the daily paper "il Sole24Ore". Prior to joining the firm, he worked at top Italian law firms, alongside one of the best-known professors of administrative law.
Francesco graduated in 1997 from the University of Milan and was admitted to the Italian Bar in 2000. He has held rights of audience/representation before the Italian High Court since 2014.
He speaks fluent English in addition to his native Italian.
Francesco Francica was a key note speaker at the roundtable entitled: "Il mercato legale visto dalle imprese: il legal procurement, il giurista d'impresa manager e i nuovi paradigmi della domanda di servizi legali. Nulla come prima" (The legal market seen by companies: the legal procurement, the company lawyer/manager and the new paradigms of the demand for legal services. Nothing will be as before.), in the prestigious setting of Palazzo del Bo, Via VIII Febbraio 2, in Padua. On June 27 th , 2019, the University of Padova became the capital of the Legal Market 4.0: an unprecedented connection between tradition and innovation, culture and work, history and current events. Academics, lawyers, in-house lawyers, students, legal procurement specialists, marketing and legal communication experts, legal head hunters and innovators discussed the salient features of the modern legal market, with its milestones, its development trends and its new boundaries. The program included four round tables and several thematic desks.
Partner Francesco Paolo Francica commented on a decision of the Italian Supreme Administrative Court (Consiglio di Stato) on the extent of declaratory obligations in a tender.
Partner Francesco Paolo Francica commented on a decision of the Italian Supreme Administrative Court (Consiglio di Stato) on the identification, when tenders are concerned, of the exact scope of the principle of equivalence referred to in art. 68, paragraph 7, Legislative Decree 50/2016.
Partner Francesco Paolo Francica commented on a decision of the Italian Administrative Court (Consiglio di Stato) on the notion of "cooperation contracts" and on the ways in which it is possible to take advantage of them to participate in a tender procedure, in an article published on the Italian financial newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore. The full article (in Italian) can be read on the newspaper webpage.
Francesco Paolo Francica wrote an article entitled "Obbligo di indicare nell'offerta economica gli oneri di sicurezza anche in assenza di specifica previsione della lex specialis" (Obligation to state safety charges even if there is no specific provision of a lex specialis) published on the portal Diritto24 edited by the Italian business Newspaper il Sole24Ore.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Italian Bar of Dottori Commercialisti
- Partner in CARNELUTTI Law Firm
Gilberto Comi is a partner in CARNELUTTI Law Firm. He is a member of the firm's tax department. He is an Italian dottore commercialista, a tax professional and a skilled chartered accountant.
His practice focuses on advising the top management of financial institutions, industrial and commercial corporates in relation to tax and company law matters, reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions, as well as assisting clients on trust matters, corporate compliance and Law 231/2001 matters, at a national and international level.
Gilberto has been a member of the Italian Bar of Dottori Commercialisti ed Esperti Contabili and of the National Chartered Accountants & Tax Experts' Society since 1990. He is also a member of AGN International (Accountants Global Network).
As an Italian and international tax and corporate specialist, he holds board of directors and statutory auditor committee positions with several Italian and international companies.
Gilberto regularly writes and lectures on tax and company law matters; he lectures on company administrative liability under Law 231/2001 to Executive MBA students at Milan Politecnico University, ranked in the top 100 of global EMBA courses by the Financial Times. Gilberto also lectured at the International seminar "Transfer Pricing: New Tax planning perspectives for multinational companies" organized by SDA Bocconi together with STS Deloitte, and he currently lectures at the Master in Corporate Tax Law, organized by Bocconi University.
He was recently included in the 2024 edition of The Best Lawyers in Italy™ for his expertise in Tax Law.
Gilberto speaks English and French, in addition to his native Italian.
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Partner in CARNELUTTI Law Firm
Giulia Busin is a partner in CARNELUTTI Law Firm. She is a member of the firm's labour department where her practice focuses on labour and trade union law, with significant experience in court.
Giulia is of Counsel to Carnelutti Law Firm.
Her practice focuses on family law and she has extensive experience in litigation related to crises in family relationships, relationships between spouses (separation, divorce, void marriage and annulment of civil marriage, recognition of ecclesiastical judgments) or common law spouses. She specializes in negotiating out-of-court agreements between spouses or common-law spouses. Giulia also has in-depth experience in juvenile law, including matters concerning foster parenting and domestic and international adoptions. She also handles cases involving legitimation and paternity disputes and actions to declare a person incompetent or disabled, guardianship of the affairs of a person with legal incapacity. She advises in estate matters, including assets under fiduciary registration, family settlements and dividing the joint estates of spouses. Her areas of expertise include the law of succession and lifetime transfers.
From 1993 to 2002 she volunteered for the legal office of Centro Ausiliario per i Problemi dei Minori - CAM Center to assist with the problems of Minors.
She has been a member of AIAF (Associazione Italiana degli Avvocati per la Famiglia e per i Minori), the Italian Association of Lawyers that specialize in family and juvenile law, since 2008.
She graduated in law from the University of Milan in 1989. She was admitted to the bar in 1993.
She is fluent in English and French in, addition to her native Italian.
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate
- Member of Carnelutti 's IP
Giulia Panigazzi is a member of Carnelutti's IP department. She is specialized in intellectual property with a focus on litigation matters relating to patents, trade secrets, trademarks and other distinctive signs, domain names, designs and models, copyright and unfair competition.
Job Titles:
- of Counsel
- Partner of Carnelutti Law Firm
Giulia Quarato is a partner of Carnelutti Law Firm. She advises on corporate, banking, and financial law. She helps commercial and investment banks, financial institutions, private equity funds, private or listed companies in relation to extraordinary transactions.
She focuses her practice on domestic and cross-border extraordinary transactions, corporate restructuring, and reorganizations, including compositions with creditors, crisis resolution, and special situations, assisting several investors in the purchase or sale of non-performing debts and securitizations.
She trained in a boutique law firm in Milan, advising on corporate and insolvency litigation proceedings and pre-bankruptcy procedures, alternative bankruptcy procedures as well as corporate and debt restructuring procedures. Since 1999, Giulia had been working in international firms, until she joined an Italian boutique law firm, as a counsel, in 2012.
She was admitted to the Milan Bar in 1997.
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate
- Member of Carnelutti 's Tax
Lidia Veronica Torricella is a member of the firms Tax department and has been with the Carnelutti since 2008 as a tax and corporate consultant for industrial and commercial companies.
She mainly assists clients in tax compliance and accounting, and tax and corporate consultancy. In addition to tax advice relating to direct and indirect taxes, on a recurring and non-recurring basis, for both national and international clients, she deals with activities such as the preparation of tax and corporate due diligence reports, analysis and drafting of transfer pricing models; consultancy on administrative liability of legal persons; drafting of organizational models pursuant to Legislative Decree 231/01 for companies belonging to national and international groups; and assistance in the procedures to apply for tax benefits such as tax credits for research and development and for advertising investments.
She obtained a Master's Degree in Business Economics and Law in 2008 at the Bocconi University of Milan. She has been a member of the Italian Bar of Dottori Commercialisti and of the National Chartered Accountants & Tax Experts' Society since 2012 and she is registered with the Roll of Professional Auditors.
In addition to her native Italian, she is fluent in English.
Job Titles:
- Counsel to CARNELUTTI Law Firm
Lodovico Artoni is of counsel to CARNELUTTI Law Firm. He is a member of the firm's corporate M&A department, where his practice focuses on M&A (drafting share purchase agreement and shareholders' agreement), cross-border and multi-jurisdictional transactions, with a particular focus and expertise in private equity. He is also highly experienced in joint ventures, international contracts and intergenerational transfer.
In recent years Lodovico has been involved in several groundbreaking cases/transactions, including experience abroad in transactions with several Asian companies.
As from 2016 he has been a member of the Private Equity and Finance Laboratory of the SDA Bocconi University.
After graduating from Università Statale di Milano, Lodovico achieved an LL.M. in the United States, where he worked as law clerk at the Wilmington Court of Chancery.
Lodovico is fluent in English, in addition to his native Italian.
Job Titles:
- Managing Partner
- Partner
- 2o2o Managing Partner
- Benedetta Amisano Co - Wrote the Article
- Gilberto Comi Co - Wrote the Chapter on Italian Private Client Regulation in Private Client Tax 2010 Published by the European Lawyer.
- Gilberto Comi Co - Wrote the Chapter on Italian Private Client Regulation in Private Client Tax 2012, Published by the European Lawyer.
- Gilberto Comi Co - Wrote the Chapter on Italian Private Client Regulation in Private Client Tax 2015, Published by the European Lawyer.
- Managing Partner of CARNELUTTI Law Firm
- President of the American Chamber of Commerce
Luca Arnaboldi and Gilberto Comi co-wrote the Chapter on Italian private client regulation in Private Client Tax 2015, published by the European Lawyer.
Luca Arnaboldi, the Managing Partner of CARNELUTTI Law Firm, has been with the firm since the beginning of his career. His practice focuses on complex M&A and finance transactions, including within the real estate and media sectors.
Luca Arnaboldi was part of the prestigious faculty of speakers invited by the New York State Bar Association International Section and the Milan Bar Association (Ordine degli Avvocati di Milano) to discuss investment opportunities under the newly launched Italian Development Fund and accompanying changes in Italian law and cross border legal issues. Refer to the attachment for the program and faculty (which included Giuseppe Sala, Mayor of the city of Milan; Vinicio Nardo, President of the Milan Bar Association; Fabrizio Di Michele, Italian General Counsel in New York; Riccardo Barbieri Hermitte, Chief Economist of the Italian Department of Treasury) or the following webpage: The Italian Recovery Fund ("PNRR"): How It Works, Opportunities For Investors And Developers, And Cross Border Legal Issues - New York State Bar Association (nysba.org)
Luca Arnaboldi, President of the American Chamber of Commerce and partner at Carnelutti Law Firm, will be one of the key speakers in the second edition of MF Italian Legal Week. Mr. Arnaboldi will attend the round table titled "Judicial System: which reform will be accepted in Europe?" on February 3 from 12 to 14 pm.
Partner Luca Arnaboldi was a keynote speaker of the "ESG vs. Covid: how sustainability overlives the present" session, on 27 November 2020, within the web edition of Milano Fashion Global Summit 2020, organised by Class. The recording can be watched on the dedicated Class CNBC broadcasting page (Milano Global Fashion Summit 2020 tab) and on TV, CLASS CNBC - SKY 507 channel, on Saturday 12 December 2020, at 2:30 pm. A follow-up interview will be broadcasted on Monday 14 December 2020, at 12.02 pm and at 8.00 pm, and on Tuesday 15 December 2020 at 3.55 pm. For more information on this important annual event for the Italian fashion industry, please visit their website.
Luca Arnaboldi and Benedetta Amisano co-wrote the article: "Italy's REIT Response", in the 28 June issue of Legal Week.
Job Titles:
- of Counsel
- President of the Italian Institute for Privacy
Luca Bolognini - President of the Italian Institute for Privacy and Data Valorisation. Lawyer admitted to practice before the Italian Supreme Court, member of the Rome Bar Association, Founding Partner of ICTLC - ICT Legal Consulting international law firm. Co-founder of the cybersecurity firm ICT Cyber Consulting. Leading Individual Privacy and Data Protection Legal 500 (Italy) 2020-23. Recommended Lawyer Legal 500 EMEA 2016-23. Chambers Europe Ranked Lawyer 2022-23. Co-chair of the Europrivacy Certification Scheme International Board of Senior Experts, IAPP Member, CIPP/E, TÜV Italia Certified Privacy Officer.
Luca Bolognini's books in the last few years, as editor, author or co-author: "Deontologia privacy per avvocati e investigatori privati" (privacy for lawyers and private investigators, Giuffrè, 2009), "Next Privacy" (RCS Etas, 2010), "Privacy Technologies and Policies" (chapter on IoT and 3D privacy, Springer, 2016), "Generazione Selfie" (Corriere della Sera, 2014), "Il Regolamento Privacy Europeo" (the first Italian commentary on the GDPR, Giuffrè, 2016), "La nuova responsabilità sanitaria e la sua assicurazione" (chapter on privacy e transparency for health sector, Giuffrè Francis Lefebvre, 2017), «La responsabilità civile nel trattamento di dati personali e per atti di cybercrime» (Giuffrè Francis Lefebvre, 2018). "Codice Privacy: tutte le novità del D.Lgs. 101/2018" (Giuffrè Francis Lefebvre, 2018). "A.I. Artificial Insanity - Reflections on the resilience of human intelligence" (Rubbettino, 2018), a pamphlet about digital rights, Big Data law and impacts of Artificial Intelligence on human lives. "Internet of Things Security and Data Protection" (Springer, 2019), in particular with the essays "Evolution of Data Protection Norms and Their Impact on the Internet of Things", "Voluntary Compliance Commitment Tool for European General Data Protection Regulation", "IoT and Cloud Computing: Specific Security and Data Protection Issues".«La rappresentanza dei diritti in materia di protezione dei dati personali, tra azioni plurisoggettive e azioni collettive» in the book "Azione di classe: la riforma italiana e le prospettive europee" (essay on privacy and data protection class actions, Giappichelli, 2020). Director, with Enrico Pelino, and author of the major volume «Codice della Disciplina Privacy» (Giuffrè Francis Lefebvre, 2019, 1454 pages), a complete commentary to the GDPR and all the Italian data protection and privacy laws. Editor and author of the book "Privacy e libero mercato digitale" (Giuffrè Francis Lefebvre, May 2021), focusing on the convergence of sectoral and market regulations in the data-driven era.
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Member of International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property
- Partner in CARNELUTTI Law Firm
- Partner of Carnelutti Law Firm, Authored the Article "Distinctiveness Acquired through Use
Margherita Barié is a partner in CARNELUTTI Law Firm. She is a member of the firm's intellectual property and litigation departments. Her practice focuses on intellectual property and civil dispute resolution, including patent and trademark infringement, unfair competition, protection of know how, copyright, commercial law and related issues.
Margherita acts as counsel in all forms of domestic arbitration and conducts and manages Italian and international litigation in various fields for both Italian and multinational clients.
Margherita is a member of International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property, Licensing Executives Society and Italian Anti-Counterfeiting Group. She has spoken throughout the country on trademark licensing and IP related issues and is a regular contributor to national and international publications, such as the World Trademark Yearbook and Getting The Deal Through - Trademarks.
She is ranked in Chambers & Partners Global and The Legal 500 in both Dispute Resolution and IP. She is also ranked in silver in World Trademark Review.
She was admitted to the Italian Bar in 1985 and has rights of audience/representation before the Italian High Court.
She has been included in the 2024 edition of The Best Lawyers in Italy™ for her high caliber work in Intellectual Property Law, and Litigation.
Margherita is fluent in English, French, and Spanish, in addition to her native Italian.
Margherita Barié was a keynote speaker at First Convention of the Round of Seminars Dedicated to Professionals on New Challenges in the World of Intellectual Property, held in 2020 at Indicam. On November 12, 2019, at the University of Milan, Margherita Barié presented her "Thematic Working Table" on "The Evolution of Distinctive Signs: from Revocation of the Historic Trademark to Co-Branding".
Margherita Barié, partner of Carnelutti Law Firm, authored the article "CJEU clarifies rules governing joint ownership of national and EUtrademarks EUROPEAN" on the World Trademark Review published on May 18, 2023 to comment on the CJEU's judgment in case C-686/21 following a request for a preliminary ruling by the Italian Supreme Court on co-ownership of a trademark. This article first appeared in WTR Daily, part of World Trademark Review, in (month/year). For further information, please go to www.worldtrademarkreview.com. To read the full article, click on the attachment.
Margherita Barié, partner of Carnelutti Law Firm, authored the article "Distinctiveness acquired through use: General Court clarifies which type of evidence has greater evidential value" on the World Trademark Review published on April 06, 2023 to comment on the decision providing some valuable guidance on how to prove that an EU trademark has acquired secondary meaning. This article first appeared in WTR Daily, part of World Trademark Review, in (month/year). For further information, please go to www.worldtrademarkreview.com. To read the full article, click on the attachment.
Margherita Barié, partner of Carnelutti Law Firm, authored the article "General Court highlights proximity between goods in Classes 32 and 33" on the World Trademark Review published on April 20, 2022 to comment on the decision of the General Court in Case T-445/21 between Copal Tree Brands Inc (‘the applicant'), the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and Sumol + Compal Marcas SA (‘the intervener'). The applicant filed a plea in law was on the infringement and incorrect application of Article 8(5) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council. To read the article, click on the attachment.
Partner Margherita Barié wrote an article for the international magazine World Trademark Review titled: "General Court provides guidance on assessment of evidence of genuine use", where she commented the General Court judgment rendered on May 28, 2020 in Case T-615/18 between Diesel SpA, the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and Sprinter megacentros del deporte SL. The full article is attached.
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Member of the Italian Association of Certified Public Accountants
- Partner in CARNELUTTI Law Firm
Mario Ippolito is a partner in CARNELUTTI Law Firm. He is a member of the firm's tax department. He is a lawyer and a certified public accountant, a tax professional and a chartered accountant.
His practice focuses on tax planning, transfer price rules, corporate law matters, and on domestic and international reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions. He also specializes in company administrative liability under Legislative Decree no. 231/01
Mario has been a member of the Italian Association of Certified Public Accountants (Ordine dei Dottori Commercialisti) and of the National Chartered Accountants & Tax Experts' Society since 2003 and he is registered on the Roll of Professional Auditors. He was also admitted to the Bar of Lawyers in 2006.
In addition, Mario teaches company administrative liability under Legislative Decree no. 231/01 at the University of Milan. He regularly writes and lectures on tax and company law matters.
Mario speaks English, in addition to his native Italian.
Job Titles:
- Master in Corporate Tax Law at Bocconi University
Job Titles:
- of Counsel
- Counsel to CARNELUTTI Law Firm
Nicola Cassinelli is of counsel to CARNELUTTI Law Firm. He is a member of the firm's corporate and M&A department.
He deals with extraordinary corporate transactions and in general company law issues.
He has developed expertise in the field of liability of directors of listed companies, and in the aspects of their conflict of interest in intragroup operations and operations with related parties. He has also advised clients in the construction and drafting of shareholder agreements.
He has further advised clients in business contracting and provided assistance in relation to bankruptcy and banking law, both within a non-contentious framework and in judicial proceedings.
He is a member of the Bar Association in Genoa.
He is fluent in English and Spanish, in addition to his native Italian.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Committee of CARNELUTTI Law Firm
Paolo Baruffi is a member of the Executive Committee of CARNELUTTI Law Firm and a partner in the Firm. He is a member of the firm's tax department, where his practice focuses on assisting the top management of industrial and commercial companies in reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions at a national and international level, corporate tax and tax litigation.
Paolo is a member of the Italian Bar of Dottori Commercialisti and of the National Chartered Accountants & Tax Experts' Society, and he is registered with the Roll of Professional Auditors. He is also a member of AGN International (Accountants Global Network) and of AGN's Membership Development Committee.
He holds board of directors and audit committee positions with several Italian and international companies.
Paolo speaks English and French, in addition to Italian.
Job Titles:
- Member of the "Ready - for - Board
Roberto Cassinelli is of counsel to CARNELUTTI Law Firm.
He mainly works within the firm's banking and restructuring departments. A graduate of the University of Milan, he began his professional career in one of the most renowned Italian law firms, before leaving to develop his particular areas of activity in his own boutique firm. He has acquired in-depth knowledge and expertise in the sphere of commercial, corporate and bankruptcy law, also working as sole arbitrator and a member of arbitration panels. He has held several directorships and positions as auditor, court commissioner and extraordinary commissioner in many companies.
He regularly provides assistance to banking groups and major industrial and commercial corporations in litigation and restructuring deals. He has also advised several clients with regard to business contracting, procurement law and banking law (in particular, legislation covered by TUB Testo Unico Bancario and TUF Testo Unico della Finanza).
He has further advised financial corporations in due diligence activity related with securitisation transactions (NPLs, NPEs, UTPs) and been engaged to handle corporate and extraordinary transactions, in particular in the field of private healthcare.
He is in demand as a speaker at training and refresher courses on bankruptcy law and the regulation of professional practice.
Roberto has been a member of the board of the Bar Association of Genoa, of which he is currently an auditor.
Qualified to practice before the Supreme Court of Cassation, Roberto is also a qualified registered public accountant.
He has held numerous positions in public institutions and he is currently serving as a member of the Italian Parliament for his third term of office.