BonelliErede

Firm Details 

Chairman: Massimiliano Danusso

Managing partner: Eliana Catalano

Number of partners: 93

Number of lawyers: 500+

Languages: Amharic, Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish

Firm Overview 

Founded in 1999 from the merger of three Italian law firms, BonelliErede is one of the largest independent law firms in Italy, with offices in Milan, Rome, Genoa, Brussels, London, Cairo (in cooperation with Bahaa-Eldin Law Office), Addis Ababa (in cooperation with Lidet Abebe Tizazu Law Office) and Dubai. The firm is a true international player that offers a full range of commercial legal and tax services, combining business acumen with academic excellence.

To better respond to clients’ needs, BonelliErede offers support through a number of specialised Focus Teams, which bring together the legal expertise of its professionals from various practice areas. The Focus Teams are organised by sector and practice area and pool professionals' individual legal expertise and in-depth sector knowledge to offer clients assistance with all aspects of their businesses.

BonelliErede has also launched its first alternative legal services provider: beLab S.p.A.. The company provides innovative legal services underpinned by state-of-the-art technologies that enable businesses to optimise and digitalise management of legal affairs.

Across EMEA 

BonelliErede has an extensive focus on international works. The firm currently has three strategic outposts in Africa and the Middle East: Cairo, Addis Ababa, and Dubai. The Cairo and Addis Ababa offices were established in 2016 and are the hub for the firm’s development plans in Africa — the Dubai office opened in 2017. In addition, thanks to a cooperation agreement with Zahaf & Partners, the firm is also present in Tripoli.

An essential part of the firm’s international strategy is to forge relationships with other distinguished independent and international law firm worldwide, with elite expertise in every practice area of business law, to thus afford clients access to the very best legal services for all types of projects and in almost every jurisdiction. BonelliErede also works with the Best Friends network, which is made up of leading firms from around the world, including: Bredin Prat in France, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek in the Netherlands, Hengeler Mueller in Germany, Slaughter and May in the UK and Uría Menéndez in Spain.

Focus Teams 

■ Art & Cultural Property

■ Banks

■ Construction & Engineering

■ Corporate Compliance & Investigations

■ Corporate Governance

■ Debt Capital Markets

■ Digital Innovation

■ Environmental Sustainability

■ Equity Capital Markets

■ Family Business & SMEs

■ Healthcare & Life Sciences

■ Infrastructure, Energy & Ecological Transition

■ Insurance

■ International Arbitration

■ Luxury

■ Private Clients

■ Private Equity

■ Public International Law & Economic Diplomacy

■ Real Estate

■ Restructuring & Insolvency

■ Shipping, Transport & Logistics

■ Sports Law

■ Tax Litigation

Italian offices 

Milan: Via Barozzi 1, 20122

Tel: +39 02 77 1131

Rome: Via Vittoria Colonna 39, 00193

Tel: +39 06 84 5511

Genoa: Via delle Casaccie 1, 16121

Tel: +39 010 846 21

International offices  

BELGIUM  

Brussels: 40 Square de Meeûs 1000

Tel: +32 2 5520070

UK  

London: 30 Cannon Street EC4M 6XH

Tel: +44 020 7653 6888

EGYPT*  

Cairo (*in cooperation with Bahaa-Eldin Law Office): Iconia Building, 16 Mohamed Thaqeb Street Zamalek

Tel: +202 25867500

ETHIOPIA*  

Addis Ababa (*in cooperation with Lidet Abebe Tizazu Law Office): Beza Building, 6th Floor, Office Number 604, Woreda 03, Bole Sub City

Tel: +251 930333331

UAE  

Dubai: 1404 Index Tower, DIFC, PO Box 506828

Tel: +971 45816900