US & Italian Business,
Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law
One of the Firm’s
core activities is providing legal advice
and assistance in connection with the
choice, incorporation and CORPORATE maintenance
of BUSINESS entities in the United
States and Italy, including COMPANIES
and partnerships, subsidiaries, branches
and representative offices of foreign
corporations, as well as the implementation
of relevant strategies for any such entities.
The Firm assists its clients in managing
their day-to-day legal affairs and in
structuring their activities to avoid
future problems.
Specifically, the Firm
provides assistance in relation to choice
of business entity, business planning,
corporate governance and directors' duties
and liabilities, auditing regulation,
group reorganizations, corporate finance,
private equity transactions and investments,
intra-group transactions, acquisition,
sale, or transfer of businesses or branches
of business, and corporate dissolution.
The Firm also renders advice and assistance
in all the legal aspects concerning the
negotiations and establishment of domestic
as well as international joint ventures,
such as due diligence, securing permits
and authorizations and the transfer of
licenses and franchises.
The Firm is engaged
in the drafting and negotiation of a
wide array of US, Italian and international
COMMERCIAL AGREEMENTS, including agency,
supply, distribution and franchise contracts,
strategic alliances, the licensing of
trademarks, patents and know-how, lease
agreements, letters of guaranty, contracts
for transportation by land, sea and air,
and insurance contracts.
The Firm advises foreign
financial institutions with respect to the legal
and regulatory requirements for the establishment
and operation in the United States of
branches, agencies and representative
offices, their day-to-day business activities,
their regular contacts with the competent
governmental regulatory authorities,
agencies and control bodies. The Firm
has gained a substantial expertise in
matters of international private
banking for high-net-worth private clients.
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