Francesca Cassone
Francesca provides legal guidance and business development assistance to companies – regulatory advice, drafting and negotiating contracts, fund raising and privacy issues – from the start up stage onwards.
Francesca specializes in litigation defense in commercial, corporate and bankruptcy law, having gained, inter alia, relevant expertise in corporate director’s liability.
Francesca normally assists clients in insolvency procedures, composition of corporate crisis and debt restructuring, through both judicial and extrajudicial transactions (restructuring agreements).
She also specializes in family law and in biolaw, both domestic and international, providing judicial and extrajudicial legal advice in right to autonomy and self-determination, right to fundamental decision privacy, protecting sexual orientation and gender identity under antidiscrimination law, reproductive rights and the right to make advance healthcare directive.
She graduated in law ‘with honours’ in 2002 with a thesis on “Assisted procreation: attribution of maternity”. Since November 2002 she has collaborated with the Faculty of Law, University of Turin, teaching as a lecturer Private Law, Civil Law and Family Law. She was admitted to the Turin Bar in 2007. She was Full Time Visiting Phd Student at the Centre for Social Ethics and Policy of the University of Manchester and in 2009 he received with full marks a PhD (Doctor) in Civil Law at the University of Pisa. From 2008 to 2014 she was Adjunct Professor in the University of Turin. From 2017 she is included in the List of Discrimination Lawyer approved by the Turin Bar Association.
Besides her native language Italian, Francesca is fluent in English.
Stefania Mancinelli
She is a lawyer registered in the Lodi bar since 2001 and graduated in Law in 1996 from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan. She worked with a leading law firm in the area, where she gained twenty years of professional experience, having as reference customers banks, companies (partnerships or corporations), Bankruptcy Trustees. Since 2015, she has been a founding partner of the Gruppi e Mancinelli Law Firm, and assists clients in the fields of debt collection, banking law, bankruptcy law, commercial law, real estate law, both in extrajudicial and judicial matters.
Federica Raviolo
Lawyer at the Supreme Court of Turin, expert in Civil Law, in judicial and extrajudicial areas, with an area of specialization in family law in the healthy and pathological phase of the marital union, custody of minors, right of children (procedures for adoptability, limitation, forfeiture and suspension of parental responsibility) protection of vulnerable individuals (disqualifications, support administrations and incapacitations), assistance in matters relating to filiation (disavowal actions), national and international adoption and adoption of older people, successor relations.
Scientific High School and Degree with full marks from the University of Turin;
Enrolled in the list of Special Curators of Children since 15/1/2013
Participation in the Higher Education School in the law of family relations, persons and children organized by the AIAF, passing the related final exam. 2016. Member of the Juvenile Chamber of Piedmont and Valle d’Aosta.
She is fluent in French.
Valentina Castagno
After having obtained the master’s degree in Law at the University of Turin with full marks, she developed the main skills in the assistance of parental and non-parental couples, both during separation and divorce, as well as in the management of practices that affect minors before the Juvenile Court.
Furthermore, as a result of the continuus assistance and consultancy provided in the corporate subject, she have developed a broad knowledge of national and international commercial contracts, compliance, privacy and credit risk management.
