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Bridgewater – Alan Carey, Managing Partner Dublin Office:

Alexandra House The Sweepstakes Ballsbridge

Dublin 4 T: +353 1 6604300

Firm Profile

Bridgewater was formed in 1999 to meet the needs of companies experiencing strategic challenges and undergoing significant business transformation. Since formation, the company has built a client base of successful SME’s, multinational and blue chip clients. Bridgewater has been instrumental in adding significant value to these organisations and has a track record of success – many of these in the SME sector.

Bridgewater are at the forefront in helping fledgling businesses reach their potential. Our team of experienced and dedicated strategy professionals are chosen for their broad range of skills and are expected to have practical hands on entrepreneurial experience allied with sound academic knowledge.

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Laura Pierallini Email: l.pierallini@pierallini.it Web Address: www.studiopierallini.it

Rome Office Viale Liegi, 28 I - 00198 Rome Tel: +39 06 88 41 713 Fax: +39 06 88 40 249

Firm Profile

Studio Pierallini is a multidisciplinary law firm based in Rome and Milan. The Firm has enjoyed global and qualified reputation in aviation for over 20 years, providing expert advice to clients across the whole of the international aviation sector, including aircraft finance and leasing, litigation and dispute resolution, employment and corporate issues.

The Firm also assist the clients in regulatory matters, including advisory services, assistance and planning in connection with representation before governmental agencies, having continuous contacts with the Civil Aviation Authorities, mainly in Italy and the European Union, but also abroad.

Our clientele includes Italian and foreign airlines, manufacturers, lessors, financiers, airports, handlers and travel agents. Studio Pierallini is also adviser to the Italian Association of Air Transport Carriers (Assaereo).

Moreover, the Firm has an extensive experience in corporate and commercial law. It offers integrated teams of professionals focused on structuring and completing

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joint-ventures, strategic alliances, spin-offs and corporate restructuring. In M&A transactions, the Firm is competent to deal with the main following issues: performing pre- and post-acquisition due diligence works; advising in corporate, employment, IP, tax and litigation issues; setting up the company structure; pre- and post-merger notification with the Italian Antitrust Authority; and for all other legal and regulatory issues.

The Firm has contributed to various publications, including: Getting the Deal Through – Air Transport; Airfinance Annual; Aircraft Finance and Aircraft Liens; and International Law Office – Aviation.

Studio Pierallini is recommended as a leading firm by several guides, including: Expert Guides – Aviation Lawyers; Who’s Who Legal – Aviation; Legal 500 EMEA; Top Legal; and Corporate International.

The firm has been named, for many years, as Aviation Law Firm of the Year for Italy by ACQ, Intercontinental Finance, Global Law Experts and Finance Monthly.

Finance Monthly GLOBAL AWARDS 2013

Milan Office Piazza Castello, 26 I - 20121 Milan Tel: +39 02 86 91 54 68 Fax: +39 02 87 75 04

Laura Pierallini

Laura Pierallini, founder and named partner of the Firm, spent years at the legal and tax department of Arthur Andersen Worldwide Organisation and, from 2001 to 2005, was the managing partner of the international law firm Coudert Brothers in Rome.

She is a professor of Commercial Law and Air Law at the LUISS University of Rome.

Laura Pierallini has practised aviation law since 1988. She attends many conferences on aviation, presenting speeches and moderating panels at various Italian and international symposia (in particular organised by IATA, EALA and Assaereo).

She is named as a leading aviation lawyer by several sector guides (such as Expert Guides – Aviation Lawyers; Who’s Who Legal – Aviation; and Legal 500 EMEA).

She is also the author of many publications on the aviation law, as well as on tourism and commercial law (inter alia, A New Prescriptive Intervention towards the Homogenization of the Air Carrier Liability; Effects on Relations between Tour Operators and Travel Agents; and Travels, Holidays, Package Tours, Denied Boarding and Cancellation: New Fines for Airlines).

Our consultants have over 18 years’ experience in delivering business strategies, transformation and organizational change programmes. We focus on the achievement of business value along with very strong analytical and communication skills which enable us to manage change initiatives to solution delivery.

We are experts in Business Plan development, Market Research, Finance Consulting for growth or restructuring and Business Training/Coaching.

Bridgewater have recently been appointed as consulting partners to BusinessChallenger.com, an innovative cloud based solution to provide consistent and expert reviews of business plans. This solution is currently in use amongst several

Enterprise Support agencies and bodies across Ireland and the UK.

At Bridgewater, we understand strategic business requirements and processes and turn them into practical workable solutions through strategic guidance, business analysis, design, planning and solution delivery. It is our passion for helping small businesses grow that makes Bridgewater the best there is.

Areas of Expertise

Our service offerings are as follows – • Strategy / Business Model Development • Financial/Accounting Services • Business Planning and Feasibility Studies • Training & Business Mentoring

Aviation Law Firm of the Year

Limerick Office: Enterprise Centre Moylish Park Limerick

T: +353 61 325600

Management Consulting Firm of the Year