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.