Along with Angelo Benessia founding partner of Studio Benessia – Maccagno, Cristiana Maccagno is a partner of Studio Benessia – Jorio.
She is active in the field of civil law, with particular focus on commercial, corporate, insolvency matters.
She has gained broad experience in relation to complex corporate structures, from listed group of companies to small economies, as well as problems related to the succession of shareholders.
She has gained specific expertise in corporate restructuring, insolvency proceedings and related litigation, working on a number of significant cases, also cross-border.
She has served as a member of Italian study commissions on the legislation regarding the insolvency of major enterprises and has been a member of the group of experts appointed for the drafting of guidelines of bankruptcy legislation in the EU.
She is regularly active in litigation both before Italian Courts and, along with foreign colleagues, abroad – and in arbitration, both as counsel and arbitrator.
As an expert in the matters of the legal profession, she has been the coordinator of the international committee that drafted and issued the Charter for the Practice of Law in the 21st Century, presented at the U.I.A. Congress in Turin, August-September 2001, and later adopted by the International Association of Lawyers as the “Carta di Torino”.
She has been a lecturer in Criminal Law and Criminal Commercial Law at the University of Turin Law School.
She is admitted to the Turin Bar since 1966 and has been registered to practice before the Court of Cassation and the superior courts since 1981.
Languages: French and English.
Along with Angelo Benessia founding partner of Studio Benessia – Maccagno, Cristiana Maccagno is a partner of Studio Benessia – Jorio.
She is active in the field of civil law, with particular focus on commercial, corporate, insolvency matters.
She has gained broad experience in relation to complex corporate structures, from listed group of companies to small economies, as well as problems related to the succession of shareholders.
She has gained specific expertise in corporate restructuring, insolvency proceedings and related litigation, working on a number of significant cases, also cross-border.
She has served as a member of Italian study commissions on the legislation regarding the insolvency of major enterprises and has been a member of the group of experts appointed for the drafting of guidelines of bankruptcy legislation in the EU.
She is regularly active in litigation both before Italian Courts and, along with foreign colleagues, abroad – and in arbitration, both as counsel and arbitrator.
As an expert in the matters of the legal profession, she has been the coordinator of the international committee that drafted and issued the Charter for the Practice of Law in the 21st Century, presented at the U.I.A. Congress in Turin, August-September 2001, and later adopted by the International Association of Lawyers as the “Carta di Torino”.
She has been a lecturer in Criminal Law and Criminal Commercial Law at the University of Turin Law School.
She is admitted to the Turin Bar since 1966 and has been registered to practice before the Court of Cassation and the superior courts since 1981.
Languages: French and English.