BENESSIA - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Partner in Studio
Amedeo Rosboch is a partner in Studio Benessia-Jorio (formerly a partner in Studio Fubini - Jorio - Cavalli e Associati).
He provides out-of-court and in-court assistance in ordinary and arbitration proceedings, including those of significant complexity, in civil, commercial and corporate matters, as well as in the area of business crisis and restructuring, and in matters of succession and estate planning.
He graduated from the Faculty of Studies of Turin.
He has a master's degree in Transnational Trade Law and obtained a CGA from Oxford (UK) and a PhD in Civil Law.
He has been a contract professor at the LIUC University of Castellanza (VA) and the University of Valle d'Aosta.
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Partner of Studio
Andrea Chiesa is a partner of Studio Benessia - Jorio (former partner of Studio Benessia-Maccagno).
He graduated cum laude from the University of Turin Law School in 1990.
After a two - years' experience in a major Italian bank, he was admitted to the Turin Bar in 1994. In 2008 he has been registered to practice before the Court of Cassation and the superior courts.
His practice focuses on civil, commercial, corporate, bankruptcy and labor law litigation and arbitration, as well as on advising on a broad range of civil, commercial, corporate, bankruptcy and labor law issues. He attained specific expertise in the field of company and business acquisitions, financial intermediation and securities regulation, ordinary and extraordinary bankruptcy administration proceedings. He deals with corporate crises from all perspectives assisting among others bankruptcy receiverships, composition with creditors procedures as well as extraordinary administrations. He filed the first application for the negotiated settlement of the corporate crisis governed by Law Decree 118/2021.
He gained specific expertise in labor law issues, assisting corporations with individual and class actions and in procedures to obtain special public funds such as Cassa Integrazione Guadagni, Cassa Integrazione Guadagni Straordinaria and derogatory Cassa Integrazione Guadagni.
He also advises on the generational transfer of companies and assets.
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Partner of Studio
Cristina Astori is a partner of Studio Benessia - Jorio (former partner of Studio Benessia-Maccagno). She graduated from the University of Turin Law School in 1990.
She was admitted to the Turin Bar in 1993 and has been registered to practice before the Court of Cassation and the superior courts since 2006.
Ms Astori's practice is mainly focused on civil law, also with respect to family law, and on commercial law.
Cristina has served as a mediator of the Chamber of Mediation and Arbitration set up at Consob and as arbitrator of the Arbitration Court of Piedmont.
Languages: English.
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Partner of Studio
Fabrizio Barbieri is a partner of Studio Benessia - Jorio (former senior partner of Studio Benessia-Maccagno).
His practice focuses on civil law, and particularly on commercial and corporate matters. He acquired specific experience in banking, insurance, and securities litigation, as well as in bankruptcy, labor law, antitrust, advertising, and EU law matters.
He has advised on a number of major privatizations, business transfers, acquisitions and in the set up of insurance joint ventures and public-private utilities.
He graduated cum laude from the University of Turin Law School in 1982.
He was admitted to the Turin Bar in 1985 and has been registered to practice before the Court of Cassation and the superior courts since 1998.
Languages: English.
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Partner of Benessia - Jorio Law Firm
Gianandrea Giancotti is a partner of Benessia - Jorio Law Firm (former partner of Benessia-Maccagno Law Firm).
He is member of the Turin Bar since 1991 and has been registered to practice before the Corte di Cassazione (the Italian high court) and the other superior courts since 2005.
Over the years he has gained extensive experience in both civil, commercial and employment law litigation and arbitration.
As far as employment law, he regularly assists national and international clients in organazing personnel in Italy, drafting employment contracts, hiring and dismissing white collar employees, drafting agency contracts as well as assisting clients in restructuring and reorganizing processes, redundancy plans, outsorcing and transfer of business.
He is A.G.I. (Italian Labour Lawyers), EELA (European Employment Lawyers Association) and Camera Civile del Piemonte e della Valle D'Aosta member.
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Partner of Studio
Luigi Nuzzo is a partner of Studio Benessia - Jorio (former partner of Studio Fubini - Jorio - Cavalli e Associati).
Luigi Nuzzo focuses on banking regulation and specialises in corporate, banking and bankruptcy litigation, as well as arbitration proceedings.
He has gained significant experience in restructuring operations of companies in crisis within the framework of bankruptcy procedures.
He assists private clients with a deep expertise in the legal aspects of this sector, such as inheritance and management of family assets, family businesses, trusts and foundations.
He works in real estate (acquisitions and sales of real estate and portfolios).
He also has specific expertise in the field of acquisitions and divestments of shareholdings, companies or branches of companies, drafting and negotiating acquisition agreements, shareholders' agreements and commercial contracts.
He holds a degree in Law from the University of Turin.
He is a member of the Turin Bar Association and of the Special Register of Lawyers admitted to legal aid before the Court of Cassation and other Higher Courts.
He speaks Italian and English.
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Partner of Studio
Marco Grosso is a partner of Studio Benessia - Jorio (former partner of Studio Benessia-Maccagno).
His civil, business and corporate practice focuses on M&A operations, corporate governance and commercial contracts, , as well as on wills and estates law.
He has gained significant experience in the field of financial intermediaries and publicly owned and in house companies.
He regularly advises shareholders, directors, companies, partnerships, audit firms and auditors and represents them before the ordinary courts and arbitration panels. He also acquired specific experience in bankruptcy law.
He graduated from the University of Turin Law School in 1998.
He was admitted to the Turin Bar in 2001 and has been registered to practice before the Court of Cassation and the superior courts since 2014.
Languages: English.
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Partner of Studio
Massimiliano Bianchi is a partner of Studio Benessia-Jorio (former partner of Studio Fubini - Jorio - Cavalli e Associati).
He provides extrajudicial and judicial assistance in ordinary and arbitration proceedings, including those of significant complexity, in banking and financial intermediaries law, in the field of labour law, as well as in commercial, corporate, bankruptcy and real estate (acquisitions and sales of real estate, companies and portfolios).
He graduated from the University of Turin.
He is a member of the Turin Bar Association, as well as a member a member of the Special Bar admitted to legal aid before the Court of Cassation and other higher Courts.
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Partner of Studio
Massimo Longo is a partner of Studio Benessia - Jorio (former partner of Studio Benessia-Maccagno).
His business and corporate practice involves advising audit firms and auditors and the directors and other members of the managing and supervisory bodies of listed companies and representing them before ordinary courts and arbitration panels in disputes and in other proceedings before the supervisory authorities.
Mr Longo has been a frequent keynote speaker on auditing reforms and issues in roundtables, symposia and lectures organized by audit firms, as well as lecturer in Master programs.
Massimo Longo graduated from the University of Turin Law School in 1992.
He was admitted to the Turin Bar in 1995 and has been registered to practice before the Court of Cassation and the superior courts since 2007.
He is an accredited arbitrator of the Chamber of Mediation and Arbitration set up at Consob. He serves as Arbitrator at the Chamber of Arbitration of Milan.
Languages: English.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Associate of Studio
Michele Fragassi is an associate of Studio Benessia-Jorio.
He has gained experience in the fields of civil, commercial, corporate, bankruptcy, banking and civil liability law as well as sports law (arbitration before sports justice bodies) and family law.
He graduated from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan.
Languages: English.
Paolo Fubini - former co-founder of Studio Fubini-Jorio-Cavalli - is a partner of Studio Benessia - Jorio
Paolo Fubini began his career in the office of Professor Alberto Montel.
After the death of his Mentor, he founded a first professional association in 1973 and then, in 1977, he founded a new association with Sergio Speranza and Alberto Jorio, a lawyer.
This new association, founded under the name Studio legale Fubini - Jorio- Speranza, later changed to Fubini - Jorio- Cavalli following the exit of Sergio Speranza and the entry in 1984 of Gino Cavalli as a new partner, has been enriched over time with the admission of new associates.
Fubini - Jorio - Cavalli e Associati has been in business for forty-five years, until March 2022.
Avv. Paolo Fubini now continues his activity in the new professional association "Studio Benessia - Cavalli - Fubini - Jorio - Maccagno e Associati" of which he is co-founder and name partner.
Avv. Paolo Fubini - having also gained significant experience in the field of administrative law limited to the construction-urban issues - has basically carried out his more than fifty years of professional activity in the field of civil law with particular reference to the so-called droit des affaires, and in this specific field has mainly provided assistance and out-of-court advice referred to all the articulations of commercial and corporate law, without failing, however, to ensure due attention to the management of the inherent litigation, both in court and in arbitration; It has assisted clients in domestic and international operations, both ordinary and special (contracts, extraordinary finance, M&A transactions, start-ups), as well as in the management of corporate crises and related procedures. It has also provided advice and assistance on financial statement and risk control issues, and specifically on corporate governance relating to listed companies, working directly with the administrative body or, in other cases, with the Internal Control and Appointments and Remuneration Committees.
He is Professor of Commercial Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Turin, having previously taught private law, commercial law and bankruptcy law at the University of Modena and bankruptcy law at the Universities of Parma and Turin.
He is the author of monographs and other publications on commercial and insolvency law.
He has been a member of commissions set up by the Ministry of Justice for the reform of bankruptcy procedures.
He is co-director of the magazine Giurisprudenza commerciale.
His scientific studies and long professional activity have made him a particular expert in the corporate and bankruptcy disciplines. By virtue of his scientific and professional knowledge, he was appointed Liquidator Commissioner of trust and estate companies by the Ministry of Productive Activities. He is currently, by appointment of the Bank of Italy, liquidator of the compulsory administrative liquidation procedure of Sicilcassa, and by appointment of the Ministry of Economic Development liquidator of financial companies.
He works in the fields of civil and commercial law, with special reference to corporate and insolvency law. He is an expert in arbitration procedures, both as an arbitrator and as a defender, and has a long experience in judicial and extrajudicial fields.
He has been on the Turin Bar since 09/09/1965 and on the special roll of lawyers admitted to legal aid before the Court of Cassation and other higher Courts since 04/07/1981.
He speaks Italian, French and English.
Gino Cavalli - former co-founder of Studio Fubini-Jorio-Cavalli - is a partner in Studio Benessia - Jorio.
He has been a member of the Turin Bar since 1966 and a member of the Special Bar admitted to legal aid before the Court of Cassation and other higher Courts since 1981. He has practised uninterruptedly in the civil law sector, with particular reference to commercial law and, within this context, to company law, banking law and the law of financial intermediaries and the law of business crises, both in contentious proceedings before ordinary courts and arbitration courts and in extrajudicial proceedings.
After teaching banking law for many years at the University of Turin, he was a full professor of commercial law at the Universities of Ferrara and Piemonte Orientale. After returning to Turin, he taught bankruptcy law and, subsequently, commercial law at the Faculty of Law, again as a full professor. He is the author of numerous publications on corporate, banking and insolvency law.
He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the journal Banca, Impresa e Società and a referee for the journals Giurisprudenza Commerciale, Il Fallimento and Giurisprudenza Italiana.
Languages: English and French.
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Partner of Studio
Simone Orengo is a partner of Studio Benessia - Jorio (former partner of Studio Benessia-Maccagno).
His practice is focused on business and corporate law, with special reference to extraordinary financial transactions, M&A, transfers of businesses and acquisitions in the banking, financial and industrial sectors, joint ventures and private equity agreements.
Experienced in Italian and international litigation and arbitration on civil, commercial, financial matters (with a special focus on securities litigation), Mr Orengo has assisted banks and insurance companies in several sanction proceedings before the supervisory authorities (Consob, Bank of Italy, ISVAP).
He worked for other prominent Italian firms and graduated from the University of Turin Law School in 1996. He took an Post-Graduate Course in International Trade Law at the University Institute of European Studies (IUSE) in Turin in 1997.
He was admitted to the Turin Bar in 1999.
He was admitted to the Supreme Court Bar in 2013.
Languages: English.
Valentina Spinello has developed an expertise in the fields of commercial, company and labour law, assisting companies both in court and in non-judicial matters.
She has worked in major Italian law firms and since 2021, she collaborates with Studio Benessia - Jorio.
In 2008, she graduated from the University of Torino with a grade of 110/110.
She was admitted to the Turin Bar in 2011.
In 2012 she obtained the "Toga d'Oro" from the Turin Bar Association, an award given to the top four candidates to the bar exam held in session 2010-2011 in the district of the Turin Court of Appeal.
She was a member of the Commission of Young Lawyers at the Turin Bar Association.
Languages: French and English.