Rome

Rome

Ashurst counts two offices, twelve partners and over 60 professionals in Italy. The Italian team comprises lawyers and tax advisers who qualified in Italy, UK, Spain and in the USA. Ashurst Italy which opened in 2000 in Milan as a separate entity affiliated with Ashurst LLP (Studio Legale associato ad Ashurst LLP) opened its Rome office in 2011. The Italian team is also able to draw on the resources of the firm's Italian desk in London which includes three partners specialising in corporate, banking and finance and structured finance.

Domenico Gullo is the managing partner of the Rome office. Franco Vigliano is head of Ashurst's Italian practice and he is based in Milan.

The Italian team includes multinational companies, industrial groups, banks and financial institutions, insurance companies, institutional investors, private equity funds as well as property and investment funds. The team regularly provides advise to government bodies, public companies and sovereign wealth funds in the context of multi-jurisdictional transactions and it's able to provide assistance to the whole range of the market stakeholders in a cost-effective and timely efficient way both in Italy and abroad.

The main areas of practice are:

  • Administrative law
  • Banking and finance
  • Capital markets
  • Competition and EU law
  • Corporate and commercial
  • Dispute resolution and ADR
  • Employment
  • Energy, transport and infrastructure
  • Insolvency, restructuring and special situations
  • Insurance
  • Project finance
  • Real estate
  • Regulatory
  • Tax