Gallavotti Bernardini & Partners

Gallavotti Bernardini & Partners is a legal boutique with leadership in the media, entertainment, technology and sports sectors, notable international experience, cross-cutting skills in commercial and administrative law, as well as corporate and regulatory profiles, which allow an effective and versatile approach, also on new technological and digital issues, of intellectual property and data protection, as well as on related sectors or activities such as real estate and renewable energy.

The lawyers of the Firm have perfected their skills also abroad, in international networks or primary groups, or in the public sector as in-house of Governmental bodies and, although they work according to the best international standards and practices, they maintain and promote a tailor-made client-professional relationship, distinctive of a boutique firm.

The main feature of the Firm is the capability of identifying the best solutions to combine the needs of international operators with the logic and specificities of the Italian market, translating international practices into the national context.

Our main objectives and values are the combination of specialization and overall knowledge and vision of the market, long-term trust with clients, application and synthesis of national and international best practices, creativity and concrete solutions, flexibility and empathy to fully meet the needs and expectations of our clients.

Firm Overview:
The firm, founded in 1973, has a strong international vocation and has developed consolidated relationships with multinational companies and synergies with foreign law firms with which it regularly collaborates, maintaining its own office in Los Angeles for many years.

Main Areas of Practice:

Media, Entertainment & Technology:
Our professionals have participated in many key and strategic transactions, at national and international level, in the audiovisual/entertainment sector and have worked with Italian, European, American, Asian and Middle Eastern clients, already consolidated or in the start-up phase, obtaining reputation and fairly extensive experiences.

The Firm has considerable knowledge of the national and international issues and needs of digital platforms, producers, distributors, authors, actors, talents and related trade associations, as well as of national and international bodies operating in the management of copyright and related rights, offering a synthesis of commercial, administrative, regulatory and judicial experiences and skills, practical also to accept development opportunities, mediation needs and solutions to complex problems.

Our lawyers are particularly experienced in national and international negotiations and agreements for the acquisition, sale and exploitation of rights, production and distribution of contents, enhancement of rights and protection of intellectual property. They deal with legal, regulatory and contractual developments in the exploitation of digital technologies and linear and non-linear transmission media, artificial intelligence systems for data collection and analysis, as well as related regulatory issues, with particular experience in related needs related to data protection.

They consistently participate in regulatory monitoring activities, and provide their support to new regulatory measures and initiatives with the most representative associations and / or operators of the sector. They assist the entire supply chain of the audiovisual / entertainment sector in identifying, finding and exploiting resources for the development, production and distribution of both Italian and foreign projects.

Sport:
The activity of the Firm in the sports sector represents an excellence in the national and international scene for the peculiar ability of synthesis that the lawyers of the Firm are able to offer to their clients in terms of sports regulation and litigation, exploitation of image rights, licensing and sponsorship deals, or in the organization of major international sporting events.

Our lawyers, in fact, assist and regularly represent federations, confederations, leagues, clubs, agents and athletes before national and international courts and arbitration bodies, as well as in the drafting of commercial contracts and are members of dispute resolution bodies and committees of federations and confederations of the football sector.

The Firm has assisted clients of the sports sector in the organization of national and international competitions and events, the management of related media rights, licensing and sponsorship deals, transfer agreements, investments and financing for clubs and sport facilities.

The clients of the Firm can benefit by the cross-cutting skills and knowledge of our lawyers in the media, entertainment, technology and sport industries, and therefore the added value in terms of team work and vision of context, steadily oriented to solutions aimed to optimize best practices and the evolution of related sectors.

Regulatory & Public Administration:
We assist our clients on a wide range of commercial and regulatory matters before independent authorities and other public offices and/or administrations, and we are organized to provide integrated advice and assistance in public commercial law, a matter of “contact” between public/administrative and commercial/corporate law.

Our lawyers regularly deal with activities and procedures before the Competition, Communication and Data Protection Authorities, and assist several major operators or associations in public consultations, as well as in procedures for new regulations and laws, offering their own contribution mainly with reference to new rights, means and technologies of communication and exploitation, new digital platforms, with national and international commercial and regulatory implications.

The Firm also specializes in energy law and in the regulation of the gas and electricity markets, from renewable and non-renewable sources, as well as in the regulation of local public services and environment, in particular in the integrated urban waste management service, taking care of and managing, on behalf of qualified operators, the relations with independent authorities, as well as the project development, building and management of related facilities.

In the litigation field, we provide qualified representation and assistance in proceedings before the ordinary, administrative and accounting courts, as well as in arbitration proceedings.

Commercial & Corporate:
Our lawyers regularly assist their clients in civil and commercial contractual aspects, as well as in the corporate governance requirements of national and international companies and groups, joint ventures, dealing with the acquisition, merger operations or sale of companies or individual assets.

The organization of the Firm is designed to provide clients with advice and assistance on all matters related to the management and operation of companies and to complex requirements of national and international corporate governance. The Firm’s clients can benefit from the experience acquired by the Firm’s professionals in complicated operations of international magnitude – even through the operation of an office in Los Angeles for many years and the activity within primary international groups or networks – to obtain rapid and effective integration and synthesis between models or group policies and commercial, contractual or corporate needs.

The professionals of the Firm, among the other, deal with agreements for the development and exploitation of intellectual property rights, for the incubation and promotion of new projects, structures or plants, or for the related financing and guarantees, in Italy and abroad.

The Firm has provided, in sectors of its prevalent intervention, assistance in many sales, acquisition or merger operations of major companies, services and operators, strategic for national and international competitive dynamics.

These abilities are also carried out in the assistance for the out-of-court settlement of disputes, as well as in litigation before the competent national and international authorities (jurisdictional and arbitration).

Managing Partners: Antonio Bernardini, Carlo Gallavotti, Stefano La Porta, Chiara Dellacasa
Number of Lawyers: 10
Languages: Italian, English, French, Spanish