The Professionals

Prof. Avv. Tommaso Maria Ubertazzi

Tommaso Ubertazzi is a general counsel advising medium and large companies, including among others five large corporate groups, each of which is composed of numerous Italian and foreign companies. In his activity he manages a variety of legal issues the companies face each day at the national and international level, working closely with the entrepreneurs and the key persons in their businesses.

In fact, he very often participates in the Shareholders’ and Directors’ Meetings of the companies that he assists and advises in their most important, strategic decisions. Over the years, the clients have appreciated his work and used his advice in their general business activity, attributing him a role of a trusted primary counsel in their legal management. This was one of the reasons why he has also been appointed appointed a Trustee of two holding companies. Furthermore, , in 2021 he was appointed as a member of the Board of Gessi s.p.a. considered one of the most important companies in its sector. In this way, his role has transformed from an external assistant to being part of the company.

He personally carries out the assignments received and this characteristic has always been appreciated by entrepreneurs he assisted and who consider it an advantage which distinguishes him from other lawyers. In fact, he really has been the leading individual in all the matters indicated in this submission, assisted by Studio Ubertazzi.

PROFESSIONAL CAREER

Tommaso Ubertazzi was registered as an advocate in the Milan Bar Association in 2008. Later, in 2015, he was registered as a lawyer qualified to represent clients at the Court of Cassation.

Within the last two years, Tommaso Ubertazzi assisted in a number of extraordinary operations, among which the most prominent are: a business acquisition with the value of the assets estimated at € 1.5 billion; five recovery operations of the companies which debts amounted to € 430 million; negotiations of the sale of a controlling stake in a company which shares’ value was estimated as € 1.3 billion; and a demerger worth a total of € 300 million. He has also led the team in drafting one of the biggest lawsuits in Italy in recent years regarding directors’ liability, with an approximate value of € 860 million as well as arbitration with an approximate value of € 200 million.

In addition, from 2018 to 2021, Ubertazzi provided day-to-day assistance to two large companies in extraordinary administration which debts amounted to around € 1.9 billion, as well as to other companies with a total annual turnover of approximately € 800 million.

Over the previous years, Tommaso Ubertazzi has handled around 29 M&A and corporate reorganisation transactions; 36 debt restructuring operations (debt and arrangement recovery/restructuring plans). Moreover, he has assisted his clients, also before the supreme court, in approximately 26 disputes relating to the liability of the directors and statutory auditors of companies; and in over 43 tax disputes concerning tax inversion, VAT payments and transfer pricing.

Finally, he has assisted the clients in contracts’ negotiation also in foreign countries (often personally travelling to the places where the clients’ business partners are based) such as Luxembourg, Poland, France, Germany, Spain, Serbia, Macedonia, UK, USA, Russia, Qatar, UAE, St Maarten, Chile, Tunisia, Gabon, Congo, India, Singapore and China. Furthermore, he has assisted several clients in co-delegation before foreign jurisdictions such as the Courts of Luxembourg, Frankfurt, Paris and Madrid. He has also carried out judicial activities before international courts.

ACADEMIC CAREER

Prof. Ubertazzi wrote his first book on privacy aged 26 and became an associate professor of private law at the University of Basilicata in 2011. In 2017 he became an associate professor of private law at the University of Salerno.  Recently, in 2018 he was qualified to access the position of a first-level university professor in sector 12 / A1 – Private law (full professor). He obtained a unanimous approval of all the members of the commission chaired by prof. Alpa.

Tommaso Ubertazzi is a member of scientific committees of prestigious legal journals and an author of numerous publications:

• Scientific Committee: AIDA – Italian annals of copyright, culture and entertainment included by ANVUR, the National Evaluation Agency of the University Research System, in the list of “Class A” legal journals

• Books (the only author): Il diritto alla privacy. Natura e funzione giuridiche, Cedam, 2004; Il procedimento di acquisizione di imprese, Cedam, 2008; Gli accordi per i risanamenti delle imprese in crisi: profili civilistici, Jovene, 2014; I controlli bancari nei risanamenti d’impresa: profili di responsabilità civile, Jovene, 2015; Garanzie infragruppo e rapporti obbligatori, Esi, 2018, Rethinking the withdrawal of consent in the functional perspective of privacy, G. Giappichelli Editore, 2022

• Books edited: Controllo e impresa, edited by G. Colangelo, M. Granieri, T.M. Ubertazzi, Mulino, 2015; Garanzie speciali nei rapporti commerciali, edited by M. Granieri, T.M. Ubertazzi, Mulino, 2017.

• 20 + Articles and commentaries in the matter of private law and, in particular, in the matter of company law.

Prof. Avv. Benedetta Ubertazzi

Benedetta Ubertazzi is a general counsel advising medium and large companies, including among others large corporate groups, each of which is composed of numerous Italian and foreign companies. In her activity she manages a variety of legal issues the companies face each day at the national and international level,

For these groups Benedetta supervises and coordinates a group of foreign lawyers who are member of her networks, among which lexicom and international law association, whose law firms are typically also ranked in legal 500. In this activity company take advantage of Benedetta’s specialty in international and European Union law and role of legal advisor for the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.

Over the years, the clients have appreciated her work and used her advice in their general business activity, attributing her a role of a trusted professional among those crucial in the management of their legal cross border cases.

She carries out the assignments received personally with dedication and extreme care, and this distinguishes her from other professionals. For this reason she becomes constantly one of the major leading individuals benefitting the companies in all matters related to cross border issues.

PROFESSIONAL CAREER

Benedetta Ubertazzi was registered as an advocate in the Milan and in the Madrid Bar Association in 2005. Later, in 2022, she was registered as a lawyer qualified to represent clients at the Court of Cassation.
Within the last years, Benedetta Ubertazzi assisted in a number of extraordinary operations, among which the most prominent are: a business acquisition from a US leading international manufacturer and marketer of industrial forged steel valves of an Italian manufacturer of industrial valves for applications primarily in the oil and gas industries with the turnover of 925 million Euros; and another business acquisition of the minority shareholder of another leading oil and gas company was valued at around 1 billion Euros.
In an important ICC arbitration procedure regarding the sale of shares of a company worth € 1 billion, she acts as lawyers. In addition, in relation to the same dispute, she leads the team in several disputes before the courts of Milan with subject matter related to the challenge of the balance sheet and liability action, where each of the relevant lawsuit against both the companies and the directors is worth more than € 300 million.
Over the previous years, Benedetta Ubertazzi has handled M&A and corporate reorganization transactions; debt restructuring operations (debt and arrangement recovery/restructuring plans). Moreover, she has assisted her clients in several disputes, including before the supreme court (not only in Italy but also abroad) and the Court of Justice of the European Union, as well as before courts and out of court (alternative dispute resolution) bodies in Italy and also in foreign countries coordinating activities (often personally travelling to the places where the clients’ business and partners are based) in the US, EU and Asian countries (India, Japan, Russia, Maldives, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Ethiopia, Serbia, Ukraine, Albania, UK, Germany, Poland, France, Belgium, Spain, Italy, etc.).
Finally, she is the Legal Expert for UNESCO, WIPO, WHO, Hague Conference of Private International Law, the World Bank, the EU, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Italian Ministry of Justice, Italian Ministry of Culture, Lombardy Region, British Library Sustainable Development Programme, British Council and Spanish and Finnish Ministries.

ACADEMIC CAREER

Benedetta Ubertazzi became an aggregate professor of international and European Union law at the University of Macerata in 2010. In 2022 she became an associate professor of European Union law at the University of Milan-Bicocca. Recently, in 2022 she became the coordinator of the EU funded Jean Monnet module related to the European prosecutor and of the Erasmus + KA171 with the UNSW SYDNEY.

Benedetta Ubertazzi is a member of scientific committees of prestigious legal journals and an author of numerous publications (index 1 Scopus; index 1 Web of Science; Printing Subsidies von Humboldt Foundation; Shortlisted for the St. Petersburg International Legal Forum Private Law Prize 2018; Von Humboldt Fellowship and printing award):

• Scientific Committee: AIDA – Italian annals of copyright, culture and entertainment included by ANVUR, the National Evaluation Agency of the University Research System, in the list of “Class A” legal journals
• Books (the only author): Il regolamento Roma I sulla legge applicabile ai contratti, 2008, Giuffrè, Milan; Exclusive Jurisdiction in Intellectual Property, in “Studien zum ausländischen und internationalen Privatrecht”. Series of Books of the Max Planck Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, 2012, pp. 341; Intangible Cultural Heritage, Sustainable Development and Intellectual Property, Series Title: Munich Studies on Innovation and Competition (Max Planck Institute), Springer, Munich, ISBN : 978-3-031-08103-3.
• Books edited: Bartoloni, M-E., Caligiuri, A. and Ubertazzi, B. (2013), L’Unione europea e la riforma del governo economico della zona Euro, Editoriale Scientifica, Napoli, pp. 236; Scovazzi, T., Ubertazzi, B. and Zagato, L. (2012), Il patrimonio culturale intangibile nelle sue diverse dimensioni, Giuffrè, Milan, 2012, pp. 340; Ubertazzi, B. and Muñiz Espada, E. (2009) Le indicazioni di qualità degli alimenti. Diritto internazionale ed europeo, in L’Italia e la vita giuridica internazionale. Series of Books directed by professor Fausto Pocar, Milan, Giuffrè, 2009, pp. 404.
• 20 + Articles and commentaries related to international and European Union law concerning corporate matters.

Avv. Francesco Bonaccorso Seracini 

TITLE: Lawyer

AREA OF WORK: Corporate law and extraordinary transactions – Companies in Crisis – Contract and Commercial Law – Litigation and arbitration – Tax Law – Banking and financial law.

LANGUAGE: Italian

EDUCATION: Degree in Law, University of Milan.

Avvocato stabilito  Patrycja Szwed

TITLE: Established Lawyer.

AREA OF WORK : Litigation and Arbitration – Contractual and commercial law – Company law and extraordinary transactions – International and European Law – Food law.

LANGUAGE: Italian, English, Polish, and Spanish.

EDUCATION: Degree in Law, Jagiellonian University of Kraków.

Avv. Claudia De Cesare

TITLE: Lawyer

AREA OF WORK: Companies in crisis – Contract and commercial law – Litigation and arbitration – Banking and financial law – Tax Law.

LANGUAGE: Italian and Spanish.

EDUCATION: Degree in Law, University of Milan.

Dott.ssa  Daniela Barlocco 

TITLE: Intellectual Property Consultant.

AREA OF WORK: Intellectual Property.

LANGUAGE: Italian.

EDUCATION: Degree in Law, University of Genoa.

Dott.ssa  Francesca Santone

TITLE: Practicing Lawyer

AREA OF WORK: Cyber Protection and Privacy – Contractual and commercial law – Intellectual property – Tax law – Banking and financial law.

LANGUAGE: Italian and English.

EDUCATION: : Degree in Law, University of Milano-Bicocca.

Sharon Sardini  

TITLE: Practicing Lawyer.

AREA OF WORK: International and European Law – Contractual and commercial law – Unfair competition – Advertising.

LANGUAGE: : Italian and English.

EDUCATION: Degree in Law, University of Milano-Bicocca

Avv. Nidhi Mehra

TITLE: Lawyer

AREA OF WORK: Intellectual Property – International law and European Law – Litigation and Arbitration – Companies in crisis – Corporate and extraordinary transactions – Commercial and contract Law – Cultural Heritage and Art – Advertising – Food law.

LANGUAGE: English and Hindi.

EDUCATION: B.A. LLB, in Law, Christ University, Bangalore.

Avv. Alessandro Fumagalli

TITLE: Lawyer

AREA OF WORK: Labour Law – Contractual and commercial law – Cyber Protection and Privacy – Tax law.

LANGUAGE: Italian

EDUCATION: Degree in Law, University of Milan.

Avv. Lorena Puccetti

TITLE: Law​yer

AREA OF WORK: Criminal law

LANGUAGE: Italian and English

EDUCATION: Degree in Law, University of Padua.

Avv. Curzio Fossati

TITLE: Lawyer​

AREA OF WORK: Cyber Protection and Privacy – International and European law – Contract and commercial law – Corporate law and extraordinary transactions.

LANGUAGE: Italian and English

EDUCATION: Degree in Law, University of Pavia – PHD in Private International Law, University of Insurbia.

Avv. Finotti Valentina

TITLE: Lawyer​

AREA OF WORK: Litigation and arbitration – Administrative law – Real estate law – Contract and commercial law.

LANGUAGE: Italian and English

EDUCATION: Law degree, University of Ferrara – 2nd Level specialisation course “Corporate and governance”, University of Milan.

Michela Baroffio

TITLE: Office secretary

LANGUAGE: Italian, English and Spanish.

EDUCATION: B.A. in Legal Studies, University of Milano-Bicocca.

Vincenzo Guarnaccia

TITLE: Lawyer / PHD

AREA OF WORK: Lawyer in business restructuring and business contracts.

LANGUAGE: : Italian and English.

EDUCATION: Degree in Law, University of Salerno. PHD in business crisis law.

Dott.ssa Lorena Caraccio 

TITLE: Collaborator

AREA OF WORK: Cyber Protection and Privacy – Contractual and commercial law – Intellectual property – Cultural Heritage and Art – Tax Law.

LANGUAGE: Italian English and Spanish

EDUCATION: B.A. in Legal Studies.

William Long

TITLE: Collaborator

AREA OF WORK: Cultural Heritage and Art – Intellectual Property.

LANGUAGE: : Italian and English.

EDUCATION: BA (Hons) History, University of Oxford, Jesus College, UK – MA Law, University of Law, Guildford, UK

Costa Lorenzo 

TITLE: IT manager

LANGUAGE: Italian 

Dott. Massimiliano Broglia 

TITLE: Chartered accountant

AREA OF WORK: Tax and Corporate Law

LANGUAGE: Italian and English.

EDUCATION: Degree in Economics and Legislation for Business
and Commerce, University of Bocconi, Milan.
Enrolled in the Register of Chartered Accountants of Biella.
Auditor.

Dott. Stefano Cravero 

TITLE: Chartered accountant

AREA OF WORK: Tax and Corporate Law

LANGUAGE: Italian and English.

EDUCATION: Degree in Political Administrative Sciences,
University of Turin.

Registered in the Register of Chartered Accountants and
Accounting Experts.
Auditor

Avv.  Stefania Panzeri 

TITLE: Consultant

AREA OF WORK : Digital legal marketing & content strategy

LANGUAGE: Italian, English and French.

EDUCATION: Degree in Law, University of Milan-Bicocca – PhD in Legal Sciences.

Dott.  Farina Marco

TITLE: Notary

AREA OF WORK: Corporate law and extraordinary transactions –
Contractual and commercial law.

LANGUAGE: Italian and English.

EDUCATION: : Degree in Law, University of Pavia; Phd Civil Law,
University of Genoa; Researcher in Civil Law, University of
Milan.

Professor lawyer Enrico Mario Ambrosetti

TITLE: Professor lawyer

AREA OF WORK: Criminal Law

LANGUAGE: Italian, english

EDUCATION: Degree in Law, University of Padua – Full Professor of Criminal Law, University of Padua

Member of the Venice Bar Association

Professor Lawyer Chiara Silva

TITLE: Professor lawyer

AREA OF WORK: Criminal Law

LANGUAGE: Italian, english

EDUCATION: Degree in Law, University of Padua – Associate Professor of Criminal Law, University of Padua