Directorship relationships Liability of directors Liability of corporate and supervisory bodies Liability for direction and coordination Enforcement of shareholders’ and side agreements Enforcement of investment agreements Enforcement of corporate financing and commercial agreements Lawsuits for unfair competition Service agreements Other specific issues (liability pursuant to art. 31 of the Consolidated Law on Finance (TUF), investment contracts and financial instruments, medical liability, data processing and procedures before the Data Protection Authority).
Foreign sovereign wealth fund: assistance to an important foreign sovereign wealth fund against a seizure order of shares of a leading Italian bank and of some manufacturing companies of strategic interest for a stock exchange value of € 1.1B, issued by the International Court of The Hague and the General Attorney ‘s Office of Rome. Worldwide leading manufacturing Company: assistance to companies under extraordinary administration against a major Italian bank for abuse of direction and coordination and failure to repay shareholders’ loans for about € 199M. Leading Italian company in the private security sector: legal assistance with a lawsuit brought for alleged embezzlement of more than € 2 million by security guards during the transport of valuables on behalf of a large distribution company. National credit institution: assistance with more than 30 separate lawsuits (total value of the claims of more than € 7 million) brought by clients claiming the bank ‘s liability pursuant to art. 31 TUF arising from the embezzlement committed by a former financial advisor. Primary Private Bank: assistance with the injunction brought for unfair competition in relation to the solicitation of all the private bankers of the only branch located in a city in northern Italy. Company operating in the securities management: assistance with the lawsuit brought against the revocation for just cause of a managing director. Legal assistance with a case of medical liability, to a hospital gynaecologist with a recovery lawsuit brought by an insurance company (in particular: the hospital and the insurance company had been ordered to pay more than € 4 million to the family members of a child born with serious infirmity due to the alleged gross negligence of the doctor; the company’s recovery lawsuit against the doctor was rejected). National ordinary bank: assistance with a lawsuit for unfair competition due to the solicitation of employees and the diversion of customers brought by another bank. Managing Director of an asset management Company: assistance with the lawsuit for the payment of compensation in relation to the liability lawsuit brought by the asset management company. Premier Italian banking Group: legal assistance with a lawsuit brought before the Commercial Court, for alleged unfair competition, solicitation of employees, theft of trade secrets and diversion of customers, with an outflow of more than € 800 million. Worldwide leading significant manufacturing Company: appointment as co-arbitrator at the Geneva Chamber of Arbitration in relation to a dispute over a supply of industrial machinery by a Polish company against an Italian company with a billing of over € 1.5B. Premier leading co-operative Company: assistance and advice in relation to corporate issues along with criminal lawyer to the co-operative and its directors in complex criminal case related to bribery and bid rigging. Consortium of cooperative companies: assistance and advice to the Consortium and to the main consortium members in relation to tax issues related to huge VAT debts.
