03Practice area

International Business & Investments

Legal counsel to foreign entrepreneurs and companies looking to invest or do business in Italy.

Approach

Italy, with a single point of legal contact.

Italy offers foreign businesses a large market within a detailed legal and administrative framework. The firm guides clients through each stage, in English or Italian, and brings in the other advisers each transaction requires.

Areas of work

  1. 01

    Doing Business in Italy

    Legal support for foreign businesses entering the Italian market: incorporating a company, contracts, commercial relationships and setting up operations.

  2. 02

    Mergers, Acquisitions & Due Diligence

    Acquisitions of companies, businesses and shareholdings, with a review of legal risk and coordination of the workstreams each transaction requires.

  3. 03

    International Commercial Contracts

    Drafting and negotiating international commercial agreements, including distribution, agency, supply, franchising and business collaborations.

  4. 04

    Joint Ventures & Strategic Partnerships

    Agreements between Italian and foreign parties, with particular focus on governance, risk allocation and contractual protection mechanisms.

  5. 05

    Cross-Border Disputes

    Handling disputes arising from international commercial relationships, working with foreign counsel where required.

  6. 06

    Foreign Investment in Italy

    Support for industrial, commercial, corporate and real estate investments, including coordination with tax and financial advisers.

Related pages

Investing in ItalyShareholdings, companies, real estate and contracts for private investors.Complex Business DisputesHigh-value commercial and corporate litigation.

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