Corporate legal services
‘Clients value the team's international credentials and full-service corporate expertise. Sources say: “Fast in acting on our needs”.’
Chambers Europe, 2012
Companies in Italy, throughout Europe and around the world operate in a maze of regulations. Our Italian corporate legal services team advises a number of prominent clients on how to develop their business in this challenging environment. We provide a supportive and forward thinking service to in-house counsel on the regulatory and compliance issues that are now a common feature of business in Italy.
We offer a full-service approach to all of our clients, drawing upon the expertise of our specialist lawyers in administrative law, antitrust, competition and regulatory, aviation, capital markets, employment law, energy, food, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology, infrastructure, insurance, litigation and dispute resolution, mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures, real estate, shipping and tax.
We assist companies with the many different issues which arise in the context of day-to-day operations. We are available to our clients at all times – including quiet times between transactions.
Our areas of work include:
- annual general meetings
- annual reports
- board policies and procedures (including terms of reference for board committees, securities dealing codes, and conflict policies)
- continuous and periodic disclosure obligations
- corporate governance compliance
- difficult company meetings
- directors’ indemnities
- executive remuneration issues
- general company meetings
- minimising legal and regulatory risk
- scrip dividend schemes
- share buybacks
- share plans
More information on our global corporate advisory practice