Giovanardi Studio Legale

Chairman: Carlo Alberto Giovanardi
Managing Partner: Carlo Alberto Giovanardi
Number of Partners: 6
Number of Lawyers: 39
Languages:Italian, English, French, German, Spanish

Firm Overview:
Giovanardi Studio Legale is a law firm operating since the early 1900s. Over the years the firm has consolidated its reputation in national and international jurisdictions providing in litigation and prelitigation assistance mainly in commercial law and financial intermediaries sectors. The firm guarantees maximum independence, highest confidentiality and outstanding availability towards clients by providing legal assistance concerning corporate, banking and extraordinary financial transactions as well as civil and administrative litigation and domestic and international arbitrations.

Main Areas of Practice: 

Litigation & Arbitration: 3 partners;10 fee earners based in Milan
Giovanardi Studio Legale has eminent experience in assisting industrial and commercial companies of any kind, including listed companies and multinationals, in litigation and prelitigation disputes concerning corporate matters (e.g., disputes between shareholders, between shareholders and directors), commercial contracts, and, in general, civil law matters, also about corporate liability issues. The law firm also assists clients, including leading Italian and foreign banks, managing disputes concerning customer relations, banking agreements, and investment services, and those arising from bankruptcy proceedings. Giovanardi Law Firm experience extends to disputes regarding relationships between investors, shareholders and asset management companies of any kind. Giovanardi Law Firm offers tailor-made services to clients based on their goals and their realistic achievement, particularly with respect to pre-litigation phases, and, subsequently, to the possible benefits of settling the dispute amicably through ADR procedures. Concerning certain matters for which the firm have not the necessary specialist skill-set, Giovanardi Law Firm has established long-standing, close and reliable relationships with qualified external professionals and law firms. Partners have significant experience in arbitration proceedings, acting both as legal counsel and as sole arbitrators or members of arbitration panels, for administrated proceedings governed by rules issued by an arbitral institution, such as the Arbitration Chamber of the Milan Chamber of Commerce.
Contacts: Carlo Alberto Giovanardi; Cecilia Lampertico; Cristiano Ruspi
Tel :+39 02 776721
Emails: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]

Corporate/M&A: 2 partners, 9 fee earners based in Milan and Genoa
Giovanardi Studio Legale assists Italian and foreign companies and funds on corporate law matters, including domestic and cross-border M&A and private equity deals. The corporate/M&A practice deals with all aspects of corporate matters, including transfers of shares, business concerns and other kind of assets, extraordinary transactions, such as share capital transactions, transformations and corporate reorganisations, in highly complex and distressed frameworks too, both in the structuring and in the execution phases of the transactions. The firm has gained strong and proved experience in negotiating any kind of commercial agreement too, with reference to a wide range of industries, by adapting the negotiation approach to the specific context involved.
Contacts: Carlo Alberto Giovanardi; Marco Marinoni
Tel: +39 02 776721
Emails: [email protected]; [email protected]

Banking & Finance: 4 partners, 8 fee earners
Giovanardi Studio Legale assists Italian banks in relation to financing and account management issues, as well as divestments of performing, unlikely to pay (UTP) and non-performing loans (NPL), by means of individual negotiation or implementation of competitive processes. On the purchaser side, the firm assists Italian and foreign investment entities in relation to the purchase of portfolio of receivables or of large single name, mainly through securitization structures. The firm provides assistance for the legal due diligence, the drafting and negotiation of the assignment agreement as well as the assistance to structure the funding and to organize the servicing platform.
After the purchase, the firm assists the client in the management of the securitized portfolio, by way of extrajudicial activities, foreclosure and insolvency proceedings, or settlements with the borrowers.
The banking and finance expertise includes:
● financing and credit restructuring transactions
● credit assignments, including revolving loan facilities, in the interest of the assignor or of the assignee, as part of securitization transactions of portfolios or single name
● implementation of the financial structure and issuance of asset-backed securities (ABS)
● structuring of management and servicing platforms
Contacts: Filippo Cantalamessa, Francesca Marino, Carlo Alberto Giovanardi; Cristiano Ruspi;
Tel: + 39 02776721
Emails: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]

Real Estate: 3 partners, 6 fee earners based in Milan and Genoa
The firm has gained specific expertise in real estate deals, both in single asset ones and in those involving structured properties portfolios, by negotiating capex, KPIs and development targets and by structuring deals involving properties as collaterals. As a support to the real estate practice, the firm can offer litigation services as well, involving any kind of real estate and financial agreements - such as property management, lease, financing and leasing agreements - and dealing with liability issues too.
Contacts: Carlo Alberto Giovanardi; Marco Marinoni; Filippo Cantalamessa
Tel: +39 02 776721
Emails: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]

Restructuring & Insolvency:2 partners; 9 fee earners based in Milan and Genoa
Giovanardi Studio Legale provides legal assistance to Italian and international clients (financial institutions, corporate and funds) on transactions dealing with sectors such as turnaround, restructuring and/or distressed M&A.
The Law Firm, furthermore, provides legal advice to servicing platforms and institutional investors as to scenarios of special situations which end up being overcome through out-of-court settlements/agreements or in connection with insolvency procedures, by focusing on developing and achieving any current or potential value and managing the risk profiles related to the parties involved.
Contacts: Carlo Alberto Giovanardi; Linda Morellini
Tel: +39 02 776721
Emails: [email protected]; [email protected]