Expertise

• Debt restructuring/bankruptcy
• Litigation
• Business contracts
• Corporate law, with particular focus on the following:
  • International trade law applied to construction, financing and sale of warships, cargo vessels and leisure craft agreements; trademark licensing agreements; and contracts for the transfer of know-how and technology
  • Bankruptcy law: reorganisation of companies in crisis (reorganisation plan, debt restructuring agreement, pre-bankruptcy composition with creditors), representation in insolvency proceedings (lease and disposal of business units, bankruptcy litigation, liability claims, bankruptcy arrangements) and cross-border insolvencies
  • Commercial and company law: purchase and disposal of business complexes and company holdings, M&A, demergers, corporate transactions and extraordinary transactions, liability claims against directors and auditors, shareholders’ agreements, national and international sales agreements, distribution agreements, trademark licensing agreements and private procurement contracts

• Key sectors:
  • shipbuilding, inc. leisure crafts
  • military
  • services

• Foreign languages: English, German and French

Background

• Member of the Restructuring & Insolvency Focus Team
• Member of the Shipping, Transport & Logistics Focus Team
• Country Partner for Germany and Austria
• Joined the firm in 1999

Qualifications

• Member of the Italian Bar

• Law degree from the University of Genoa