Civil and business law

The firm assists individuals and businesses both when a relationship is being built — drafting a contract, setting up a company — and when it breaks down. These are two different moments, and they call for different things: first you need to foresee in writing what may happen, then you need to read carefully what was written.

Before signing

Most disputes stem from clauses written in haste or copied from a template designed for a different deal. Reviewing a contract in advance costs a fraction of litigating over it, and makes it possible to decide knowingly where to accept a risk and where not to.

Companies and business crisis

For businesses, the firm handles company law matters — relations between shareholders, directors' liability, capital transactions — and situations of crisis, from restructuring tools to insolvency proceedings, acting for both the business and its creditors.

When the relationship breaks down

Before going to court there are almost always other routes: a formal demand, negotiation, mediation — which in several areas is a mandatory precondition for bringing a claim. The firm pursues them and reports on them, setting out from the start the likely timescales and costs of each.

Non-contentious proceedings

These are proceedings in which there is no opposing party but a court order is required: authorisations for acts concerning minors or persons lacking capacity, support administration (amministrazione di sostegno), acceptance of an inheritance with the benefit of inventory.