Ranking tables

Dispute Resolution | Global

Italy

The Dispute Resolution rankings table below has been designed to provide the most in-depth insights and reviews of the top ranked lawyers and law firms. The firms included in our rankings have been recommended by in-house counsel, other third-party experts and private practice lawyers. Our comprehensive research ensures you have all the information needed when looking to purchase legal services across Italy.

Rankings overview for Departments

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Senior Statespeople

  1. Alberto Santa Maria Greenberg Traurig Santa Maria20 Years Ranked
  2. Giuseppe Sbisà
    Giuseppe Sbisà PedersoliGattai21 Years Ranked
  3. Giorgio De NovaStudio De Nova
  4. Massimo DattrinoStudio Legale Dattrino
  5. Vincenzo MaricondaStudio Mariconda

All Departments profiles

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Band 1

  1. BonelliErede
    1
    BonelliErede
    Dispute Resolution
    2025 | Band 1 | 20 Years Ranked

    BonelliErede is widely revered as a disputes powerhouse with an impressive track record overseeing local and international litigation cases. The law firm provides a leading bench of notable lawyers acting as counsel and chair in high-profile arbitration proceedings, including ICC, DIAC and UNCITRAL cases. The team is regularly mandated by a portfolio of multinational companies ranging over a number of sectors including energy and finance. It also assists clients with construction, environment and investment litigation proceedings.

  2. Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
    Dispute Resolution
    2025 | Band 1
2

Band 2

  1. Chiomenti
    2
    Chiomenti
    Dispute Resolution
    2025 | Band 2 | 20 Years Ranked

    Chiomenti is an experienced disputes practice retained by an impressive list of wide portfolio of clients encompassing financial services, food and beverage, TMT and sports. The firm handles a broad range of contentious issues, from directors' liability claims to commercial litigation. It also demonstrates increasingly strong capabilities in domestic and international commercial arbitration under ICC and CAM rules.

  2. Clifford Chance Studio Legale Associato
    2
    Clifford Chance Studio Legale Associato
    Dispute Resolution
    2025 | Band 2 | 17 Years Ranked

    Clifford Chance is an international heavyweight well known for advising on both arbitration and litigation proceedings. The firm's lawyers offer expertise in banking and insolvency litigation, as well as representing companies in shareholder disputes. The group also regularly handles commercial arbitrations administered under the ICC and CAM. The team combines aptitude in these areas with criminal law expertise. Clifford Chance's client roster includes international financial institutions and well-reputed companies from the energy and insurance sectors.

  3. Freshfields
    2
    Freshfields
    Dispute Resolution
    2025 | Band 2 | 18 Years Ranked

    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer offers an accomplished disputes and arbitration department within a reputable international firm. The team offers a specialised practice assisting notable local and multinational clients with their financial disputes. Its lawyers are well versed in handling a broad range of litigation and arbitrations, including class actions, damages claims and liability actions. The team is also well versed in competition infringement mandates. It assists clients from the automotive, financial services and energy sectors with multi-jurisdictional disputes in Europe, the UK and the USA.

  4. Gianni & Origoni
    2
    Gianni & Origoni
    Dispute Resolution
    2025 | Band 2 | 20 Years Ranked

    Gianni & Origoni is a dynamic Italian practice offering coverage of a broad range of mandates, including litigation and pre-trial relief. The team's lawyers are capable of handling commercial disputes, class actions, environmental litigation and both banking and insolvency proceedings. Its client portfolio includes an impressive list of names from the manufacturing, financial services and pharmaceutical industries.

  5. Legance
    2
    Legance
    Dispute Resolution
    2025 | Band 2 | 16 Years Ranked

    Legance - Avvocati Associati is a well-regarded firm regularly advising a distinguished roster of international and local clients hailing from the energy, healthcare, financial services and TMT industries. The team is experienced in handling financial, commercial and insolvency disputes. Legance's activity further extends to commercial and multi-jurisdictional arbitration proceedings, as well as challenging the enforcement of foreign arbitral awards. The firm's lawyers have recognised abilities in multi-jurisdictional proceedings.

  6. PedersoliGattai
    2
    PedersoliGattai
    Dispute Resolution
    2025 | Band 2 | 20 Years Ranked

    PedersoliGattai is a highly accomplished disputes practice with particular strengths in banking sector litigation. The team offers expertise in insolvency, antitrust and corporate litigation. The firm's experience extends to arbitration and liability and shareholder disputes, as well as insolvency proceedings.

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Band 3

  1. A&O Shearman
    3
    A&O Shearman
    Dispute Resolution
    2025 | Band 3 | 21 Years Ranked

    A&O Shearman offers a respected disputes practice with an excellent track record handling complex financial arbitration and litigation. The firm's lawyers handle a variety of disputes, including restructuring and insolvency, corporate and antitrust litigation. The team combines its strengths in these areas with expertise in criminal matters. The firm fields an impressive client roster that features a number of household names from the energy and banking sectors.

  2. Dentons Europe Studio Legale Tributario
    3
    Dentons Europe Studio Legale Tributario
    Dispute Resolution
    2025 | Band 3 | 8 Years Ranked

    Dentons offers a growing practice focusing on litigation and arbitration, with notable activity in proceedings before the ICC. Its lawyers are well placed to advise on multi-jurisdictional mandates owing to an extensive international footprint. The firm is active on a range of commercial and contractual disputes, including product liability and defamation claims, as well as antitrust, real estate and banking disputes.

  3. Fivers
    3
    Fivers
    Dispute Resolution
    2025 | Band 3 | 10 Years Ranked

    Fivers is a notable name in the Italian dispute resolution arena. The firm frequently advises companies from the financial services, sports and product manufacturing industries on corporate and banking litigation cases such as shareholder disputes, damages claims and directors' liability actions. Its lawyers can boast additional experience in bankruptcy litigation.

  4. Hogan Lovells Studio Legale
    3
    Hogan Lovells Studio Legale
    Dispute Resolution
    2025 | Band 3 | 23 Years Ranked

    Hogan Lovells is highly experienced in product liability work. The team combines this with expertise in a number of other areas, including corporate and contractual litigation and banking and competition disputes, including assistance with criminal investigations. The firm's lawyers offer notable experience in insurance disputes. The team is well placed to handle matters with an international element, with particular activity in cross-border disputes involving French and Swiss aspects. The department also has knowledge of a wide range of industries, including food and drink, energy and technology.

4

Band 4

  1. DLA Piper Italy
    4
    DLA Piper Italy
    Dispute Resolution
    2025 | Band 4 | 17 Years Ranked
    DLA Piper regularly advises clients on multi-jurisdictional litigation and arbitration proceedings. The firm assists a large number of international companies, with activity on behalf of major names from the fashion, technology and transport sectors, as well as established financial players. The team's lawyers are also active in insurance litigation. DLA Piper's disputes team often works with its insolvency and regulatory practices to provide comprehensive assistance to clients.
  2. LCA Studio Legale
    4
    LCA Studio Legale
    Dispute Resolution
    2025 | Band 4 | 9 Years Ranked

    LCA Studio Legale is a widely recognised firm with expertise in real estate, corporate and construction disputes. Its lawyers act for a variety of domestic and international clients active in the sports, energy and fashion sectors. The firm also has notable activity in insolvency, antitrust and IP litigation.

  3. Linklaters
    4
    Linklaters
    Dispute Resolution
    2025 | Band 4 | 12 Years Ranked

    Linklaters is capable of assisting clients with a wide variety of different matters, including commercial, insolvency, antitrust and banking litigation. The firm's lawyers assist clients with shareholder disputes, annulment proceedings and class actions. The team is particularly active on behalf of tech companies, financial services and banks.

  4. Orsingher Ortu - Avvocati Associati
    4
    Orsingher Ortu - Avvocati Associati
    Dispute Resolution
    2025 | Band 4 | 2 Years Ranked
    Orsingher Ortu - Avvocati Associati is a notable practice that is able to assist banking and financial service clients as well as TMT and media players with insolvency litigation and shareholder disputes. The firm also advises on corporate liability cases and commercial litigation. Moreover, the team is often a port of call for disputes concerning high net worth individuals.
  5. ADVANT Nctm
    Dispute Resolution
    2025 | Band 4
5

Band 5

  1. Bird & Bird
    5
    Bird & Bird
    Dispute Resolution
    2025 | Band 5 | 12 Years Ranked

    Bird & Bird fields an established IP litigation practice offering assistance with patent, trademark and copyright infringement disputes. Its Italian team acts on competition and TMT matters. The firm's lawyers advise an impressive portfolio of clients from a variety of industries, including retail, food and banking. It also regularly acts on real estate disputes.

  2. 5
    Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP
    Dispute Resolution
    2025 | Band 5 | 6 Years Ranked

    Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle is a dynamic practice group assisting clients with commercial and state investment arbitration. The team represents sovereign countries on cross-border disputes, including corporate litigation. The firm's lawyers also act on contractual and antitrust litigation arising from the oil and gas and logistics sector.

  3. 5
    Eversheds Sutherland
    Dispute Resolution
    2025 | Band 5 | 13 Years Ranked

    Eversheds Sutherland is a well-established international firm whose Italian disputes practice acts on a variety of high-value mandates in connection with insolvency, banking, insurance and construction litigation. The firm is capable of handling complex mandates with cross-border elements for both domestic and foreign clients. The team's lawyers also have a strong depth of knowledge in the energy and aviation industries.

  4. Gatti Pavesi Bianchi Ludovici
    5
    Gatti Pavesi Bianchi Ludovici
    Dispute Resolution
    2025 | Band 5 | 5 Years Ranked

    Gatti Pavesi Bianchi Ludovici is an adept litigation practice advising on a range of commercial disputes, including banking and contractual cases. The team typically handles cases flowing from corporate liability proceedings or those regarding anti-competitive behaviour. It also offers notable experience in shareholder disputes.

  5. Giovanardi Studio Legale
    5
    Giovanardi Studio Legale
    Dispute Resolution
    2025 | Band 5 | 6 Years Ranked
    Giovanardi Studio Legale has particularly strong expertise in liability actions and insolvency disputes. The team's lawyers also assist with construction and real estate litigation. The firm regularly advises clients from across the financial and banking sectors. It is further active in corporate liability proceedings.
  6. 5
    Greenberg Traurig Santa Maria
    Dispute Resolution
    2025 | Band 5 | 20 Years Ranked

    International and domestic arbitrations form a significant part of Greenberg Traurig's work. The firm also supports clients in litigation, with proceedings ranging from construction to real estate, including contractual disagreements. Clients belong to a range of different sectors, including technology and energy. The team's lawyers also represent a range of companies from the retail and banking sectors.

  7. Pavia e Ansaldo
    5
    Pavia e Ansaldo
    Dispute Resolution
    2025 | Band 5 | 17 Years Ranked

    Pavia e Ansaldo is a well-regarded Italian firm regularly handling claims arising in the energy, telecoms and finance sectors. Its disputes team is well equipped to deal with international matters by virtue of lawyers with expertise in an array of countries such as the USA and UK. Its practitioners are also adept at acting as arbitrators in international arbitration proceedings.

  8. Cappelli Riolo Calderaro Crisostomo Del Din & Partners
    Dispute Resolution
    2025 | Band 5
  9. Carnelutti Law Firm
    Dispute Resolution
    2025 | Band 5
6

Band 6

  1. GA
    6
    GA
    Dispute Resolution
    2025 | Band 6 | 9 Years Ranked

    GA is a quality outfit handling a broad range of contractual, banking and insolvency disputes. The firm assists high-profile domestic and international clients from a range of industries, including banking, infrastructure and energy. Its lawyers are active in alternative dispute resolution. The team also assists with shareholder disputes and breach of contract cases.

  2. LMS Studio Legale
    6
    LMS Studio Legale
    Dispute Resolution
    2025 | Band 6 | 12 Years Ranked

    LMS Studio Legale is an Italian practice that boasts expertise in litigation matters. The group assists a full spectrum of clients, from financial institutions to private individuals. The caseload of its lawyers comprises insurance, insolvency and construction-related disputes. It also advises on banking litigation and claims relating to D&O liability.

  3. Portolano Cavallo
    6
    Portolano Cavallo
    Dispute Resolution
    2025 | Band 6 | 7 Years Ranked

    Portolano Cavallo is well-regarded domestic law firm with experience in commercial litigation, including IP, antitrust and corporate disputes. Its client roster includes major international companies within the TMT sector. The team provides additional assistance to corporations in the energy and pharmaceuticals industries.

  4. Gitti and Partners
    Dispute Resolution
    2025 | Band 6
  5. Osborne Clarke
    Dispute Resolution
    2025 | Band 6
  6. Saccucci & Partners
    Dispute Resolution
    2025 | Band 6