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Provided by Filippo Ferri

Europe

Practice Areas

Bank and financial crimes

Bankruptcy crimes

Bribery crimes

Corporate crimes

Corporate liability under Legislative Decree 231/01

Environmental crimes Extradition

Health and safety crimes Tax crimes

Internal Investigations

Cross-border Investigations and International Judicial Assistance

Whistleblowing and Data Protection

Career

After almost ten years of practice in business crime, in 2017 he became partner of Cagnola & Associati Law Firm.

Filippo is a trial lawyer who provides legal assistance to individuals and multinational companies throughout all the Italian territory and has worked on most prominent criminal cases in the white-collar crimes area, dealing with long and complex Court proceedings.

He practices in the whole area of Corporate Criminal Law both in litigations and advisory activities, and has represented executives, businessmen and sport celebrities, as well as legal entities under Law 231/01 (corporate liability in Italy).

He also leads internal investigations, often cross-border. Filippo provides proactive compliance counselling to his clients and has deep experience in matters involving corruption, fraud, insolvency, money laundering, tax evasion, health and safety violations, environmental crimes and disasters. He is used to work on cases that involve parallel investigations in Italy and overseas, and often works closely with lawyers based in other jurisdictions.

His experience includes advice and representation for those facing requests for mutual legal assistance and he has successfully managed very delicate extradition cases. He acted has expert witness in foreign jurisdictions.

Professional Memberships

Publications Officer IBA Business

Crime Committee 2017/2018

Secretary IBA Business Crime Committee 2019/2020

Vice Chair IBA Business Crime Committee 2021/2022

Senior Vice Chair IBA Business Crime Committee 2023/2024

Publications

The New Horizon of The Right to Silence: from Criminal Law to Administrative Proceedings (By The Company Lawyer, 2022).

Professional Manual of Criminal Tax Law (As Contributor, Giappichelli, 2021).

Regional Young Lawyer of the Year (in Recognition of Legal Finesse, Innovation & Accomplishments at Legal Era Conclave, London, 2017).

Whistleblower Protections: a guide (As member of the working group with International Bar Association, Legal Policy & Research Unit and Legal Practice Division, 2018).

Multi-subjective diachronic medical Treatment and profiles of culpable element's relationality (In Rivista Penale, 2015).

Occupational diseases and assessment of causation link: the necessary distinction between general causation and individual causation (In Rivista Penale, 2014).

Involuntary illiquidity of the Company and failure to pay VAT and certified withholding taxes: the non-punishability of the Company during economic crisis? (In Rivista Penale, 2014).

Regarding Financial Abuse (In Diritto Penale Contemporaneo, 2014).

The criminal relevance of mobbing in large-scale companies (In Diritto Penale Contemporaneo, 2013).

Delegation of functions within a complex organizational structure and liability for poor food preservation in a supermarket chain (In Diritto Penale Contemporaneo, 2013).

Personal

Filippo collaborated with the Chair of Criminal Procedural Law at the Catholic University in Milan, where he has been Criminal Procedure Expert (cultore della materia).

He regularly participates, either as speaker or as a chairman, in many Italian and International seminars and conferences focused on topics relevant to the white-collar crimes area.

Since 2021 Filippo has a column about relevant criminal law topics on "Forbes Magazine", and regularly collaborates with the UK journal "The Company Lawyer".

Filippo is a long-standing member of the International Bar Association, where he currently is Senior Vice-Chair of the Business Crime Committee.

Since 2017, he has the privilege to attend, as speaker, the Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime.

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