The Firm can rely on a long experience in Acquisitions and Extraordinary Transactions and it can provide counselling in all the phases of such transactions (due diligence, negotiation, draft and execution of agreements). The counselling activity is always performed by a qualified team, the number of professionals involved varying according to the complexity of the transaction. Where appropriate, the Firm can avail itself of the most qualified consultants to focus on all aspects of management, accounting and business analysis of buyer-companies, and of important financial institutions for the organization of the resources necessary for the investments.

Attorneys in the Firm have a long experience in the drafting and negotiation of agency and distributorship agreements, with particular reference to fashion and industrial products. The Firm has acted as counsel to famous Italian companies owning important trademarks and involved in worldwide-oriented business transactions. As to agency agreements, particular attention is paid to relationships between companies and/or agents operating on the Italian territory and abroad.

The Firm’s attorneys have experience in this important field of the law, including counselling and litigation involving state and EU antitrust-regulation statutes.

The Firm’s overriding goal is to resolve disputes as quickly and inexpensively as possible, with the best possible result for its clients. Consistent with that goal, particular attention is paid to arbitration proceedings, both domestic and international, for which the Firm can rely on the broad experience of its Founder Partner Roberto Ceccon, professor of International Arbitration at the Faculty of Law, University of Trento and former Secretary General of the Venice International Chamber of Arbitration. Roberto Ceccon is also fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in London, neutral of the American Arbitration Association in New York and of the Dubai International Arbitration Centre (D.I.A.C.). Particular attention is also given to ADR.

The Firm pursues litigation comprehensively with particular emphasis on commercial and corporate matters. It places great importance on commercial objectivity, emphasising that a problem should be viewed not in isolation but in the context of the clients’ best commercial interests, for the purposes of avoiding groundless actions. It is internationally minded and has contacts to pursue and defend actions worldwide. The Firm offers assistance in all aspects of commercial/contract litigation (including debt recovery), both in Italy and abroad.

The Firm provides consultation and assistance to individuals and companies in the negotiation, drafting and review of international contracts. Many common problems can be avoided during negotiations by paying careful attention to the details of the agreement, the identification of potential or recurring “trouble spots”, and the clarification of the parties’ responsibilities with respect to such issues. It is in fact vital that all contracts are both commercially viable and enforceable. An understanding of the commercial environment in which the client is operating is important, and the Firm members’ experience over many years has brought it into contact with a great variety of different commercial concerns.

The Firm is specialised in the negotiation, drafting and review of lease agreements, sale and purchase agreements, loan agreements, joint ventures and code sharing agreements regarding aircrafts. It has acted as counsel to the major regional airline companies and has acted as counsel in many litigations regarding the applicability of EC Regulation n. 261/04 and of the Montreal Convention of 1999.

The Firm provides services to public companies as well as to private companies in the field of utilities. In particular the Firm, in cooperation with its of counsels, handles contractual issues related to calls for bids, tenders, placement of public participations, public infrastructures.

The Firm is prepared to give full assistance in such field of the law to small- and medium-sized companies and is fully conversant with arrangements with creditors, bankruptcy petitions and the restructuring of insolvent companies. In particular the Firm is often involved as consultant in procedures of extraordinary administrations pursuant to the Legislative Decree no. 270/1999 (the so called "Prodi bis Law"). The Firm also operates in the field of company reorganization directed to preserve the continuity of each company.

The Firm provides advice on all aspects of business law — from the establishment of a new business to the multi-faceted needs of corporations — by offering a comprehensive service so to enable the client to solve the problems regarding the development of the company around the world. Fiscal and financial matters are accurately addressed at all phases, and the transactions performed by clients are accurately examined, where appropriate, also in collaboration with the Firm’s of counsels. The Firm offers advice on the international aspects on a range of topics including: corporate transactions, international fiscal plans, corporate restructuring, shareholders’ agreements, insolvency and disposition.

The Firm can offer a wide range of services relating to the management, acquisition, disposition and sale of companies and participations. Attorneys in the Firm serve as a significant resource to many domestic and foreign companies and individuals, offering their business experience, technical knowledge and a worldwide network of domestic and international contacts in multi-faceted commercial operations as, for instance, M&A, IPO, etc. The Firm is also fully prepared to deal with situations involving criminal corporate law.

The Firm, through its network, is fully conversant with all aspects of EU Law relevant to business clients and in particular to competition rules. It also has long experience of commercial transactions within the EU, and can call upon the expertise within its network of experienced business lawyers in other EU countries.

Attorneys in the Firm have developed broad experience in the filed by giving assistance to major Italian and foreign companies operating Franchising. The Firm has moreover been requested by the University of Padua to hold lectures on this specific matters at the Master in Transnational Commercial Law.

The Firm operates in the advising on real estate investments both in Italy and abroad, with particular regard to the analysis, negotiation and draft of preliminary sale and purchase agreements, exchange, acquisition and disposition of building areas. It also operates in the field of real estate and industrial investments in the Emirates' market through the Law Firm Habib Al Mulla & Co. in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.

The Firm provides full advice in the field of industrial investments, to both public entities requiring assistance for extraordinary corporate transactions, and to private entities for the management of the relationships with public utilities, in compliance with company law and with the law on public tenders.

The Firm is fully conversant with Intellectual Property Rights as referred to specific activities by companies. Particular assistance can be offered on issues concerning the validity of patents and trademarks through the co-operation with well-known, competent technicians for the purpose of giving specific and comprehensive opinion and assistance in disputes over intellectual property, including trademarks, copyright, patents, registered designs and know-how. The Firm has also competence in the management of litigation regarding Intellectual Property.

The Firm can assist its clients, through its of counsels, in succession and inheritance matters and in particular in the assessment of the deriving fiscal impact. Attention is particularly focused on the new Italian rules and regulations on trust and to wealth management, for which the Firm can avail itself of important financial institutions worldwide.