Europe

Boutique Law Firm of the Year

Italy Firm Profile

Italy Legal Focus is an Italian independent law firm specialized in corporate and commercial law tracing back to three decades ago. We are a group of talented and motivated attorneys committed to providing high quality legal services in the most efficient and timely fashion. We are big enough to be able to provide a full range of legal support services, yet still small enough to be able to offer a personal, tailored and partner-led service.

We typically maintain longstanding relationships with our clients and build efficient and cordial working relationships with local and international personnel working with them as one team. We combine our extensive knowledge of the law with a strong sensitivity to our clients’ business targets. We offer a creative and proactive approach to legal issues and deliver practical commercial solutions. We have developed specific skills in assisting companies engaged in innovative projects, such as life sciences, renewable energies, new financial services and software. Innovative industries require forward looking legal assistance.

Notable Legal Work Lawyers with Italy Legal Focus:

• Successfully assisted one of the largest global technology company specializing in office imaging equipment, production print solutions, document management systems and IT services in six consecutive mergers, the latest of which involved a printing solutions company formerly owned by IBM;

• Smoothly led the Italian subsidiary of the world largest medical device manufacturer through three consecutive mergers and post-merger integration of medical device companies;

• Helped the biggest Philippines banking group to obtain a payment institution license in Italy, reversing a prior Bank of Italy denial;

• Contributed to the growth of a start-up company active in the field of nanotechnology and stretchable electronics by assisting the founding partners in two subsequent rounds of financing;

• Successfully enforced a pledge on art work by painters De Chirico and Morandi in cooperation with Christies’ and Sotheby’s auction firms on behalf of a top German bank;

• Designed and strengthened the compliance program and procedures of the Italian subsidiary of a Japanese pharmaceutical and medical device company;

• Sit on the compliance committee of two medical device companies.

Lawyer Monthly Legal Awards 2012 41 We combine our

extensive knowledge of the law with a strong

sensitivity to our clients’ business targets. We offer a creative and

proactive approach to legal issues and deliver practical commercial solutions.

Areas of Expertise • Corporate Law and M&A

• Contracts and Commercial Law • Life Sciences Law

• New Technologies, Regulatory and Intellectual Property

• Information and Communication Technology

• Labor Law and Restructuring • Banking and Finance • Litigation and Arbitration

Contact:

ITALY LEGAL FOCUS Studio Legale Bernascone & Soci Largo Augusto, 8 20122 Milano - Italia

Tel: +39 02 77721511 Fax: +39 02 77721515 Website: www.italylegalfocus.com Email: gbernascone@italylegalfocus.com psangiovanni@italylegalfocus.com