Areas of expertise

The practice has consolidated experience in administrative law gained over decades providing assistance to public-sector organisations and enterprises, particularly enterprises operating in supermarket distribution and in the operation of sports facilities.

The office provides consulting services and assistance in court before ordinary and administrative authorities at all levels of justice.

Consultancy and assistance in:

• project financing;
• urban planning and construction;
• regulations governing trade and public establishments;
• local authority law;
• public works contracts;
• project financing;
• global service;
• government-owned land;
• public-sector organisations, non-economic public-sector organisations.

The practice has consolidated experience in banking law, the result of decades assisting primary banking groups operating all over Italy. The professionals in the practice offer their skills for top-level, dependable assistance with all issues in banking law.

The practice provides consulting services and assistance in and out of court with issues pertaining to current account agreements, financing and lines of credit, and specialises in lawsuits for the protection of banks’ credit.

In the specific area of credit collection, we take the importance of the time factor into account, fully aware that waiting too long can seriously compromise the possibility of credit collection, and with a view to this, pending the start of executive action, the office’s professionals implement precautionary proceedings preventing the debtor from divesting assets to the creditor’s damage.

Consultancy and assistance with contracts for current account, financing and lines of credit:

• legitimacy of contractual conditions;
• usury and compound interest;
• maximum overdraft fees;
• collection of real and personal guarantees;
• objections raised by guarantors.

Consultancy and assistance in actions protecting banks’ credit:

• credit collection;
• forced execution of movables, immovables and on third parties’ premises;
• monitoring procedures;
• bankruptcy;
• seizure and other precautionary actions;
• acts revoking dispersion of assets on the part of debtors and guarantors.

The office has consolidated experience in the area of family law, dealing with issues pertaining to relations between spouses and with children.

In view of the nature of the issues involved in family law, the law offices’ professionals address these issues not only with due professionalism and earnestness but with the appropriate delicacy, establishing a personal relationship with the client aimed at achieving the utmost understanding, taking the client’s problems to heart and providing assistance at all the delicate stages in the proceedings.

Consultancy and assistance in and out of court in the areas of:

• consensual and judicial separation;
• divorce;
• issues involving minors.

The practice has focused primarily on labour law ever since its origins, including port and maritime labour law, providing legal assistance and assistance in court to individual workers, companies and port groups, shipowners and other businesses operating in the ports of Genoa and Savona.

With the development of the tourism and cruise industries over the past twenty years, the office’s professionals have also acquired vast experience handling disputes in labour relations in this sector, regarding both personnel with strictly “maritime” jobs and workers providing complementary services on board and in the hotel industry.

This is supported by continual thorough study of the national and international regulations applicable to the sector and a continuing multi-year partnership with prominent law practices in the naval sector in the United States and South America, for whom we offer an essential reference in the management of cases connected with Italy by jurisdiction, by applicable law, or simply due to expediency

Consultancy and assistance in the areas of:

• occupational health and safety, also in the presence of activities performed on contract or by consortia;
• injury on the job and occupational disease;
• asbestos-related illnesses;
• disciplinary proceedings, both during disciplinary contestation and in disputes;
• individual and collective lay-offs;
• professional training;
• pay;
• privacy and the employment relationship;
• division of compensation for assistance or life-saving.

Assistance in court anywhere in Italy, at all levels of justice and in the pre-trial and executive phases.
Preparation of administrative appeals of inspections conducted by the national social security body or by other organisations acting in its place, and appeals of inspection results in court.

The practice offers its expertise and experience in the area of tax law, assisting companies and individuals both in and out of court.

The practice deals with all sectors of tax law, including income tax, corporate income tax, regional production tax, inheritance and donation tax, property tax, garbage collection tax, taxes for the occupation of public soil, advertising taxes and other local taxes, as well as tax penalties.

We have particular experience defending taxpayers in tax enforcement procedures, that is, in tax collection through proposal of action before the provincial and regional tax commissions and the Supreme Court of Cassation, with the aim of taking advantage of all the procedural and substantial flaws in the tax records and deeds supporting them in order to obtain immediate suspension of tax collection and remission of sums not actually payable.

Activities:

• consultancy and assistance with income tax, corporate income tax, regional production tax, inheritance and donation tax, property tax, garbage collection tax, taxes for the occupation of public soil, advertising taxes and other local taxes, as well as tax penalties;
• presentation of appeals before provincial and regional commissions and the Supreme Court of Cassation regarding payment notices and seizure of registered movables.

The practice protects the interests of anyone having difficulty collecting credits, offering its professional services for all issues pertaining to fulfilment of civil obligations and all forced credit collection procedures, including executive movables and immovables procedures, which the office’s professionals oversee earnestly and promptly, drawing on their background and on the possibility of accessing the principal national databases (chambers of commerce, keepers of real estate registries, land and buildings registry, public automobile registry).

The law firm is also concerned with credit guarantees, that is, remedies aimed at offering creditors greater security about achieving the obligation in question, or at least an economically equivalent result, acting on the debtor’s or a third party’s assets or thanks to a third party’s actions. For this reason, the practice is constantly investigating and dealing with real guarantees (particularly mortgages, pledges and privileges) and personal guarantees typical of credit (such as, for example, sureties, endorsements and credit mandates) and non-typical (such as, for example, autonomous guarantee contracts, letters of patronage and promissory notes).

Consultancy and assistance in:

• preparation and sending of payment reminders and letters placing debtors in default;
• assistance and preparation of out-of-court agreements and negotiation of payment schedules;
• preparation of appeals for cease and desist orders and precepts;
• preparation of appeals against European cease and desist orders;
• preparation of appeals under art. 492 bis of the code of civil procedure for the telematic search for assets to be seized;
• assistance in the registration, renewal and cancellation of mortgages;
• requests for seizure of movables and immovables;
• assistance in court in movables and immovables executions and sale by auction;
• assistance in court with action in executive procedures;
• assistance in opposition to precepts, execution and executive deeds;
• assistance in opposition in matters concerning labour, social security, assistance and third parties;
• assistance in the suspension and extinction of executive procedures;
• assistance in the negotiation and collection of sureties.