Member Profiles

Francesco Rotondi is the Founding and Managing Partner of LabLaw Studio Legale Rotondi & Partners. He provides 360° Labor Law and Industrial Relations counsel to numerous important Italian companies as well as international businesses with operations in Italy. He boasts a solid experience assisting with reorganization and restructuring plans, extraordinary operations, trade union litigation, the management of employment contracts, and with the organization of agency networks in the commercial and credit sectors. Francesco is particularly well known for managing complex reorganizations and corporate restructuring, top management labor issues and litigation, in addition to providing counsel on future scenarios of labor law and the individual work contracts – advising on new types of employment contracts for the digital economy. Francesco commenced his professional career in 1991 at Trifirò & Partners, where he became Partner. In 2001, he joined Hammonds Rossotto as a Partner and Head of the Employment and Industrial Relations Department. In 2006, Francesco Rotondi founded LabLaw – one of the top employment and labour law firms in Italy.

Mario Riccomagno is co-founder and senior partner of MR International Lawyers a firm that, as by its name, has a strong orientation towards international practice. This is due to two reasons: because many instructions they accept are coming from foreign lawyers and clients and because the core of the activity is based on or connected with transport which is per se international. The firm frequently provides advocacy assistance on the Italian, European and international aspects of multinational and multi-jurisdictional disputes. The most of the Italian clients are top ranked insurance companies. The arbitration practice (domestic and international) is dealt exclusively by Mario Riccomagno. The firm has stable roots in Genoa and Milan where it has offices and has a network of longlasting correspondents in Italy and abroad.

Giovanni Scognamiglio is the founding and managing partner of the Firm, and deals mostly with matters of International contracts, private M&A, education, aerospace and transportation, energy, food, luxury real estate and foundations. He is highly regarded for his ability to find simple and effective solutions to complex matters, often avoiding costly litigations to the client. Giovanni also studied and worked in New York, and then opened the firm’s rep office in Shanghai in 2007, and has worked in several jurisdictions to represent the interests of both companies and individuals. He served in many boards of multinational companies and Foundations, and very active in some international organizations, Rotary International, Propeller Club of the United States, where he held top positions. Giovani is a member of the Italian Bar Association and the American Bar Association. He is the author of more than 30 publications on international affairs and commercial matters.

Skills & Capabilities Veronica is a lawyer specialising in corporate-real estate and any connected matter.  She has developed a significant knowledge of the corporate-real estate industry with more than two decades of experience in close contact with leading industry players. She assists leading Italian and foreign investors, corporations, public entities, real estate investment funds, developers and lenders in all aspects of domestic and cross-border real estate transactions. She advises both on transactions allocating equity in the market and on financed investments. She has wide-ranging experience advising on the management of distressed assets and corporate insolvencies, the applicable legal framework and the development and restructuring of distressed real estate assets. She has specialised expertise in administrative law and assists Italian and foreign clients in real estate development, including obtaining the relevant building permits (including planning instruments) and authorisations, with specific expertise in urban planning, construction and environmental matters. Work & Professional Experience Veronica is an expert lawyer with twenty-four years of experience gained in leading Italian and international law firms, since October 2014 at partnership level up to later become the owner and founder of her own law firm. Education & Qualification 1999 – Degree, Law (Magna cum Laude), Federico II University of Naples. 2002 – Admitted to the Italian Bar. 2003 – Registration with the Milan Bar Association. Veronica is lawyer qualified to practice in the Supreme Court. Language Skills Italian English German French Awards She was awarded the deal maker of the year award 2021 by The Lawyer-FinanceMonthly (British magazine) as the leading expert for the real estate sector in Italy. Further Activities She was a lecturer in law at the Politecnico di Milano for several years and a lecturer for second-level masters at the University of Bergamo. She is the author of numerous publications on urban planning and environmental issues and has been on the Management and Editorial Board of the Environmental Law Journal for about twenty years.

Studio Legale Pulitanò - Zanchetti was founded by Professors and Attorneys Domenico Pulitanò and Mario Zanchetti in 2006, and is the result of a long and successful collaboration that lasts for over thirty years. The Firm embodies the definitive union of the personality and professionalism of the two Professors, each of whom has a long experience in providing judicial and extra-judicial assistance to natural and legal persons involved (or potentially involved) in various ways in criminal proceedings, with particular reference to cases of a legal and economic nature. The experience of the two professors was built on the double foundation of a solid interest in theoretical study and a constant daily contact with the evolution of techniques and instruments of the economic, financial and corporate world. PRACTISE  The firm has important expertise in all areas of criminal law. Therefore, it is recognized as one of the most important Italian law firms of criminal law. Thanks to the language skills of the lawyers, the firm is able to provide legal assistance even in the event of cross-border events. The firm has a deep knowledge of criminal investigation and criminal defense and is able to provide legal assistance at every stage of the criminal process. The firm's activities include legal translations, transactions, legal advice and out-of-court assistance. The firm works with other professionals (accountants, engineers, economists, economists, forensics) to provide a high level of assistance. The firm has achieved considerable success in the most important Italian criminal proceedings.