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Rome

The services that are offered from our office in Rome are:

ADMINISTRATIVE LAW, ENVIRONMENT, ENERGY

  • public procurement

  • permitting and licensing procedures

  • planning and construction issues, property development

  • environmental law, remediation of pollution, liability for environmental damage

  • energy

  • ordinary and administrative court litigation

  • PPPs and other forms of cooperation between the public and private sector

AVIATION

  • corporate, operational and regulatory advice

  • operating and finance leasing and service contracts

  • financing, repossessions, insolvency

  • privatisation, restructuring of aviation sector companies and employment issues

ASSET FINANCE

  • tax structures, securitisations and flotations

  • lease agreements

BUSINESS RESTRUCTURING AND INSOLVENCY

  • advice to creditors on protection of rights and enforcement

  • cross-border insolvencies

  • turnarounds

  • corporate restructurings and reorganisations

  • arrangements with creditors

  • Rescue finance

CAPITAL MARKETS, SECURITISATION AND STRUCTURED FINANCE

  • equity capital markets (IPOs, share listing, takeover bids, share capital increases, rights issues offering of shares to employees under stock option plans)

  • debt capital markets (domestic and international bond issues, EMTN Programmes, exchangeable and convertible bonds, high yield debt, subordinated debt, on-going regulatory compliance and notice requirements, including under Article 129 Lgs. D. 385/1993)

  • securitisation in traditional form, with warehousing or conduit structures and of various assets including RMBS, leasing receivables and NPL

  • asset-backed securities issues and CBOs

  • derivatives and synthetic securitisation transactions

  • repos, stocklending and other financial instruments

  • credit facilities/structured products

  • regulatory opinions and advice on stock exchange regulations, capital adequacy issues and netting

COMPETITION, EU AND TRADE

  • competition law

  • state aid

  • liberalised sectors

  • single market and regulatory

  • trade law

CORPORATE

  • cross-border mergers and acquisitions

  • corporate restructurings and reorganisations

  • joint ventures

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

  • patents and know how

  • copyright

  • advertising

  • pharmaceuticals and biotechnology

  • trade marks and unfair competition

  • counterfeiting, piracy, customs actions

  • domain names

  • design

  • information technology and e-commerce

  • privacy and data protection

  • valorisation of cultural heritage, museums' and cultural institutions' IPRs management

EMPLOYMENT

  • business reorganizations and restructurings, including outsourcings

  • contracts and staff agreements

  • stock option plans

  • consultations and negotiations with Trade Unions

  • incentive plans, share options schemes

  • redundancy and collective dismissal procedures

  • tax and social security issues

  • pension schemes/funds

  • contentious assistance before employment tribunals

  • sales agent relationships

  • individual dismissals

FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS GROUP

  • assistance on Consob and Bank of Italy regulatory issues; requirements, authorisation

  • Consob and Bank of Italy documents for authorisation to distribute securities, list them on stock exchanges

  • notification/authorisation of foreign Ucits with Consob, Bank of Italy

  • authorisation of Italian mutual funds (preparation of Prospectus, Fund Rules, meetings with Consob, Bank of Italy)

  • internet investment services

  • data protection, anti money-laundering provisions

  • fund distribution contracts with intermediaries

  • advertising

  • advice on banking activities, services, cards (compliance, authorisations)

GENERAL COMMERCIAL

  • outsourcing

  • supply and distribution

  • sponsorship and franchising agreements

  • international licensing contracts

INSURANCE AND PENSION

  • establishment and authorisation of Italian operations

  • general insurance and reinsurance regulatory issues

  • design, development, distribution of products in compliance with domestic regulatory framework, such as the first hedge fund linked units ever marketed in Italy

  • authorisation and regulation of insurance intermediaries

  • insurance finance

  • establishment of private pension plans and complementary social security generally

DISPUTE RESOLUTION AND ARBITRATION

  • general commercial

  • corporate

  • banking

  • insurance

  • product liability

  • intellectual and industrial property

  • real estate

  • insolvency

  • administrative

  • public procurement

  • environmental

  • antitrust

  • domestic arbitration

  • international arbitration

  • advocacy before all civil and administrative courts including the Supreme Court of Cassation and the Council of State

PHARMACEUTICALS (INCLUDING PUBLIC PROCUREMENT AND LITIGATION)

  • authorisation of medical products and devices

  • manufacturing and licensing agreements

  • price negotiations and delisting

  • joint-ventures for product development and distribution

PRIVATE EQUITY

  • leveraged and management buyouts

  • refinancings

  • secondary buy outs

  • turnarounds

PROJECT FINANCE

  • assistance on project financing for major projects and works across a wide range of sectors including infrastructures, healthcare, waste disposal, recycling and energy

  • establishment of joint ventures for major design and engineering works

REAL ESTATE

  • domestic and international cross border corporate and assets transactions

  • commercial and residential leases

  • outsourcing and sale and lease back

  • asset management agreements

  • constructions and real estate development

  • real estate finance

TAX

  • definition of domestic and international acquisition structures

  • post-acquisition restructuring

  • preparation and negotiation of tax Consolidation Agreements

  • tax litigation

  • tax structuring of financial and capital market transactions, financial/operating leases, tax products and structured finance

  • tax treatment of international insurance products and activities

  • definition and/or review of transfer pricing policies based on benchmark analyses