AREE DI ATTIVITÀ
The firm handles corporate litigation and directors’ and officers’ liability matters within the broader fields of corporate law and liability, including challenges to extraordinary transactions and disputes concerning the interpretation and enforcement of shareholders’ agreements. It also advises in insolvency litigation, claw-back actions, and the representation of major creditor companies in composition with creditors and other insolvency procedures.
A substantial part of the firm’s activity is dedicated to corporate litigation, with particular focus on challenges to corporate resolutions and other disputes between shareholders and companies, corporate and individual liability actions against directors and statutory auditors, objections to extraordinary transactions, disputes concerning the withdrawal or exclusion of shareholders or the removal of directors, and disputes relating to the interpretation and enforcement of shareholders’ agreements. The firm also deals with more recent developments arising from legislative and case-law evolution concerning the overlap between civil liability and accounting liability in in-house companies, corporate governance adequacy requirements, and ESG disclosures.
The firm’s clients include large companies, banking and insurance institutions, extraordinary administrations and insolvency offices, senior managers and professionals, as well as important individual and institutional investors, across the main courts with specialised business divisions. The firm closely monitors the case-law trends of these courts, including where approaches differ from one venue to another.
In insolvency and business crisis matters, the firm’s activity has focused, and continues to focus, on claw-back actions, other claims arising out of liquidation and opposition proceedings. The firm also frequently assists major creditor companies in composition with creditors and in other insolvency procedures.