Practice areas

Knowledge, reliability, and continuity

The fields in which we operate.

Studio Benessia – Jorio, a civil law practice focusing on commercial law, provides advice and assistance outside the courts as well as representation before the courts and arbitration panels.

Fields of civil and commercial law

  • corporate governance matters (included but not limited to articles of association, by-laws, and shareholder agreements, related party transactions) also for listed companies and companies subject to special administrative regulations;
  • restructuring and reorganization plans for companies and groups;
  • extraordinary industrial and financial transactions, such as joint venture agreements, mergers, demergers, capital stock increases;
  • acquisitions and/or sales of securities;
  • proceedings before the supervisory authorities;
  • assistance, also in court, with respect to the sector of audit firms.

  • assistance in all types of corporate, financial and commercial disputes, with specific expertise in the areas of banking law, financial and financial services law, mergers and acquisitions, shareholder relations, financial statements, intellectual property law, real estate law, bankruptcy, labour as well as administrative law and regulatory matters;
  • specific expertise in domestic and international arbitration as well as alternative dispute resolutions.

  • loan and debt restructuring acting for banks and lenders, as well as borrowers;
  • acquisition finance;
  • private and public offerings and the placement of debt, equity products and financial instruments in Italy;
  • public offers to buy or exchange financial instruments, including delisting;
  • extensive experience in respect of financial Intermediaries’ litigation.

  • pre-insolvency advice and assistance to companies and their advisors to ensure the company remains financially viable or to spin off financially viable business units;
  • debt restructuring plans and debt restructuring agreements;
  • composition procedures;
  • insolvency procedures including administration, and covering application, continuation of trading, sale of assets and restructuring/rehabilitation.

  • assistance in the following fields: publishing, automotive, manufacturing, special paper and fiber, fashion, employment agencies, auditing, banking and finance;
  • consultancy on organisation of personnel and industrial and union relationships;
  • drafting of individual employment contracts; review of tasks and economic treatment; general conditions and smart-working agreements; drafting of company’s policies, incentive schemes, disciplinary proceedings and individual firing, agreements for the termination of contracts;
  • company restructuring and reorganisation proceedings, downsizing, outsourcing;
  • admission to social security measures in support of employees.

  • trademarks, domain names and other distinctive signs;
  • patents, utility models and industrial design;
  • know-how and trade secrets;
  • appellation of origin and geographical indications;
  • copyright;
  • software and databases;
  • license agreements;
  • transfer of technology agreements;
  • R&D agreements;
  • publishing;
  • production and performing artist contracts;
  • national and international commercial contracts (distribution, franchising, merchandising agreements, NDAs);
  • Confidentiality agreements;
  • media (and social media) contracts;
  • advertising image rights exploitation agreements;
  • web campaign;
  • testimonial dual sponsorship agreements;
  • diritti della persona e privacy;
  • unfair competition;
  • internet and e-Commerce;
  • new technology;

  • special regulations on private-public companies and project financing;
  • assistance to public sector holding companies and in-house companies supplying public utility services;
  • corporate/ownership restructuring of utilities, including assessment of legal feasibility;
  • assistance to contracting authorities in the drafting of public tenders and in tender management;
  • public procurement litigation before the administrative courts;
  • real estate: construction, zoning and planning;
  • cultural goods legislation;
  • assistance, before the authorities and in court, with respect to renewable energies production.

  • representing insurance companies in insurance litigation;
  • proceedings before the supervisory authorities;

  • Consultancy in the field of personal and family law;
  • Management and restructuring of family assets;
  • Successions
  • Property law and real rights;
  • Trusts and asset protection;
  • Generational transitions.

Assistance in real estate operations in all of their aspects: corporate law and practice, construction and urban planning, environmental protection, corporate finance, capital markets law and all other aspects of real estate transactions.

  • risk assessment and prevention, compliance with the industry regulations;
  • assistance and advice concerning auditors’ engagements, their contents and early termination;
  • assistance in all proceedings (civil or administrative Court) related to auditors’ professional liability and auditors’ independence;
  • auditors’ relationships with the Supervisory Authorities and drafting of fairness opinions in connection with mergers, capital increases and extra-ordinary transactions when needed.