Lawyers in Italy

Girolamo D’Anna

Specialising in the banking and finance sector, and specifically, in project finance, Girolamo advises Italian and international clients (including corporate groups, banks, and investment funds) in the structuring, negotiation, and implementation of national and cross-border acquisition and project finance transactions. Girolamo also provides legal advice on financing and refinancing in real estate finance.

Chiomenti

Giuditta Rege

Giuditta mainly deals with commercial and company law – both contentious and non-contentious matters – and assists Italian and international clients on M&A and investment transactions; commercial contracts and in corporate governance issues. She also supports Italian and foreign companies with offers of financial instruments, quotation on the stock exchange, share capital increases and other extraordinary transactions of listed issuers.

LCA Studio Legale

Giulia Affer

Partner

Trevisan & Cuonzo

Giulia Agostini

Lawyer

Lener & Partners

Giulia Battaglia

Giulia has over thirty years’ experience in this industry and specialises in structuring complex transactions. She advises debtors, banks, Italian and international investors on real estate financing, acquisitions, project finance and securitisation, factoring, debt restructuring transactions, bankruptcy law, insolvency proceedings and distressed assets purchase transactions. She has significant experience in debt restructuring in the shipbuilding and healthcare industries. Giulia’s practice also includes infrastructures and procurement with a particular focus on the energy sector.

Chiomenti

Giulia Bianchi Frangipane

Partner Giulia Bianchi Frangipane specialises in corporate law with particular expertise in M&A and extraordinary financial transactions, private equity, venture capital and growth equity, capital markets, commercial contracts, turnaround, company reorganisation and complex transactions and minority investments involving assets (mature and early stage) that are digitised and/or high-tech, strategic, and of national interest, including in regulated sectors. Her key sectors of practice include software house/Saas, biotech and medtech, AI, aerospace, robotics, insurance and brokerage, financial services and fintech, mobility and energy/renewables. She is a member of the Digital Innovation, Family Businesses & SMEs and Private Equity Focus Teams.

BonelliErede

Giulia Bonzanni

Senior Associate

Pirola Pennuto Zei & Associati

Giulia Cipollini

Giulia is senior partner in the private client and tax team and head of tax and wealth planning in Italy. She brings a wealth of international experience as a strategic advisor, with in-depth knowledge in both corporate and personal Italian and international tax matters. Her areas of specialization include tax compliance, tax litigation, and tax rulings before the Italian Tax Authorities, as well as wealth planning, tax and digital assets, inheritance tax planning, and the structuring and taxation of trusts. Navigating the evolving landscape of global mobility, Giulia advises on the Italian Flat Tax Regime for new residents, Inbound Regime, as well as other bespoke tax incentives for individuals and companies relocating to Italy. She provides integrated cross-border advice also on immigration and civil matters, with a particular focus on Investor Visa applications, international prenup and matrimonial property regimes, international wills and dual citizenships. Notably, she has substantial expertise in assisting private clients from Latin America, with a particular focus on Brazilian and Mexican clients, as well as extensive experience advising clients from Israel, United Kingdom, United States of America, South Africa and Australia. To meet growing demand in the art sector, Giulia and her team became a point of reference for art-related matters concerning tax, mobility of art pieces and collections, wealth management and transgenerational planning. Their expertise includes also loan agreements, import/export, customs (e.g., temporary admission), contracts, and due diligence, reinforcing Withers' distinguished position in the global arts and creative industries landscape. She also leads the philanthropy and charitable assistance in Italy, advising prominent charitable entities, foundations, charitable trusts linked to HNWIs, fashion brands, museums, art and cultural institutions. As the result of her pioneering work in the private client and tax sector, Giulia and her award-winning team is now the market leader in advising Italian and international HNWIs and families, entrepreneurs, trustees, foundations, charities, figures from the arts, fashion, and sports sectors, as well as major global brands and corporates. She also advises family-owned businesses on succession planning, governance structures, and cross-border tax strategies, supporting generational transitions and long-term sustainability. Giulia is the global coordinator of the Withers Continental Europe SIG (special interest group) and a key-member of the International Family Business SIG, the Art SIG, the Charities and Philanthropy SIG and the Israel and Latin America SIGs at Withers. Moreover, she has been recognized as a Trust and Estate Practitioner (TEP) by STEP and she is currently a member of the board of the Scientific Committee of STEP Italy Branch and a member of the Philanthropy Advisors SIG Steering Committee worldwide. She has been key speaker at several STEP events in Los Angeles, New York, Miami, LATAM Area, Singapore, London, Italy, Cyprus and Switzerland. She is also a key speaker at the Institute for Family Governance (IFG) Conferences. Furthermore, she is often a panelist at the Italian Embassy in Washington, the Italian Consulate in Singapore, New York and Miami, in which presents, together with Government representatives, the Italian res non-dom regime and its main features. In 2025, Giulia was elected member of the advisory board of the International Tax Planning Association (ITPA) and since 2023, she is part of the Milan Bar's Tax Disputes Commission. She has been recognized since 2018 by the international legal directory Chambers, in the High Net Word guide, as one of the best Private Wealth Lawyer in Italy.

Withers Società tra Avvocati S.r.l.

Giulia Gandolfi

Senior Associate

Pirola Pennuto Zei & Associati

Giulia Ghidini

Senior Associate

Pirola Pennuto Zei & Associati

Giulia Maienza

Senior Associate, Milan

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Studio Legale

Giulia Mariuz

Partner

Hogan Lovells International LLP

Giulia Minetti Floccari

COUNSEL

Gianni & Origoni

Giulia Pasqualetto

Senior associate Giulia Pasqualetto specialises in IP law. She has particular expertise in patents, trademarks and distinctive signs and unfair competition.

BonelliErede

Giulia Pierini

Partner

LP Avvocati

Giulia Rivarola di Roccella

Senior associate Giulia Rivarola di Roccella specialises in cybersecurity, data innovation and privacy law.

BonelliErede

Giulia Romanelli

Senior Associate

Morri Rossetti & Franzosi

Giulia Salin

Handles tax consulting on direct and indirect taxes, both nationally and internationally, for corporations and individuals. Within the firm, has also developed skills in the area of extraordinary transactions.

Baldazzi Zattera & Associati

Giulia Tenaglia

Managing associate Giulia Tenaglia specialises in IP Privacy and IT law. She is a member of the Digital Innovation Focus Team.

BonelliErede

Giulia Verusio

With significant expertise in commercial and corporate law, Giulia has a well-balanced perspective on the life sciences and healthcare sector, thanks to considerable experience on both the legal and commercial issues of the pharmaceutical industry. Throughout a well-rounded career, she has gained expertise in various legal fields, including civil and administrative litigation, with particular reference to pharmaceutical law which has been the focus of her practice for some years. Playing a key role in Osborne Clarke’s life sciences and healthcare team, Giulia provides advisory services on regulatory issues, including the production and sale of pharmaceutical products, active product ingredients, medical devices as well as food supplements. She is also well versed in drafting contracts relating to clinical trials, market access, and supply and distribution. Giulia has also spent some time seconded to an in-house role within a multinational company, giving her invaluable practical insight into the internal dynamics of large organisations and meaning she takes a business-oriented approach to her work. Alongside her life sciences and healthcare specialism, Giulia has extensive experience in drafting commercial agreements, including real estate contracts, and has assisted Italian and foreign clients (including multinationals, and leaders in the pharmaceutical, dental and cinema industries) providing ongoing advice on ordinary and extraordinary corporate transactions, including M&A and the complex restructuring of corporate groups. She is authorised to appear before the Italian Supreme Courts.

Osborne Clarke

Giulia Zappaterra

DLA Piper

Giuliana Caira

After a significant experience accrued in both commercial and employment matters, Giuliana's practice now focuses on employment law. Giuliana advises Italian and foreign clients operating in a variety of industry sectors (including multinationals operating in the cinema industry and retail), in litigation before the employment tribunals, including the Supreme Court. She also advises on day-to-day issues affecting HR departments relating to the management of employment relationships and assists clients in negotiations with Unions within collective redundancy procedures, transfers of undertakings, outsourcing transactions, etc. Giuliana was admitted to appear before the Supreme Court in 2016.

Osborne Clarke

Giuliana Monte

Partner

Pirola Pennuto Zei & Associati

Giuliana Polacco

Partner

Bird & Bird