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.
Luca Fazzini
Graduated in 2009 in Law from the University of Genoa.
Member of the Turin Bar since 2013.
Before joining Leading Law he worked in the Massimiliano Elia law firm in Turin.
He mainly deals with out-of-court consultancy and litigation in the fields of labor law, commercial (extraordinary transactions and bankruptcy) and financial banking (swap – bonds).
In particular, he assists and represents customers in all disputes relating to employment relationships, has gained extensive experience in the drafting of contracts and in the management of industrial relations.
Vittorio Maria Corelli
Expert in civil, banking and commercial law in judicial and extrajudicial fields. Consultancy in national and international contractual matters and regular consultant for major national clients in the banking, insurance, financial and services sectors in the field of credit risk management and out-of-court and judicial management of non-performing loans. In recent years he has gained significant experience in the field of Digital Law and misleading and comparative advertising.
Simone Giacosa
Graduated in law in 2009, he carried out his professional experience at the Law Firm Avvocato Zaccone e Associati (2009-2012), passing the qualifying examination for the legal profession in November 2013 at the district of the Turin Court of Appeal. He worked professionally at the Law Firm Avvocato Zaccone e Associati (2009-2015) with specialization in company and corporate criminal issues, with particular reference to violations of the T.U. Legislative Decree 81/08, asbestos-related diseases, environmental legislation pursuant to Legislative Decree 152/06, and the guarantee positions of Directors, Board Members and Statutory Auditors of the most important Italian and foreign companies operating in the Italian industrial sector.
In 2016 he founded the Giacosa-Bussolino law firm, dealing with the judicial defense of the top figures of Italian companies (Chief Executive Officers, Board Directors, Directors) in criminal proceedings with regard to tax matters, safety at work, environmental protection, crimes against heritage, food criminal law. After having gained significant experience regarding the subject of social and welfare structures, he is involved with training courses for Facility Directors, Health Directors and personnel (educators, nurses, healthcare professionals).
In 2018 he became a partner of the Leading Law firm, also dealing with out-of-court assistance to entities in relation to liability pursuant to Legislative Decree 231/2001, holding the position of internal member of the SB of the PROGETTOPERSONA Social Cooperative Company from May 2020.
Mario Donadio
The lawyer Mario Donadio is a member of the Turin Bar and operates mainly in the fields of corporate law and real estate, areas in which he assists Italian and foreign companies in the implementation of extraordinary transactions and M&A, in the sale, acquisition and development of significant real estate assets, as well as in preparing all commercial contracts.
He has also gained wide experience in consulting assistance for start-ups – a sector in which Leading Law was awarded as Team of the Year 2020 Under 40 by the Legal Community – and in the subject of privacy.
After graduating in law with mention of honor from the University of Turin, he subsequently obtained a PhD in Legal Sciences (Curriculum in Commercial Law), at the University of Milan and still cooperates, as research fellow, with the professorships of commercial law, banking law and business law of the University of Turin (Departments of Law and Management).
He is the author of numerous scientific publications on the subject of corporate law, as well as regularly lectures and conferences.
Since 2019 he has been Secretary of AGAT, the Young Lawyers Association of Turin.
Angelo Giunta
Angelo usually provides legal and strategic advice to companies in the phases of incorporation, development, expansion and consolidation of their business, providing support in the drafting and negotiation of commercial contracts, credit management and debt restructuring.
Angelo also deals with issues relating to social responsibility and administrative responsibility of companies (D.lgs. 231/2001) and he offers ongoing assistance to clients for the compliance to EU Regulation no. 679/2016 (GDPR) from the analysis and monitoring of risks (assessment), the drafting of data processing agreements to the creation of data protection models even through the creation, implementation or review of corporate policies. Angelo has also developed specific experience in the management of issues related to health and safety in the workplace.
He has also gained consolidated experience in the management of non-performing loans, as well as in the judicial and extra-judicial resolution of disputes in banking practice.
Graduated in law in 2005 with a thesis on “The Fraudulent Bankruptcy”. He was admitted to the Turin Bar in 2009.
Besides his native language Italian, Angelo is fluent in English and French.
Francesca Imarisio
Francesca C. Imarisio graduated from the University of Turin in 2002, with a research thesis carried out at the Culture Department of the Piedmont Region on the subject of cultural heritage legislation.
From 2002 to 2006 she was the legal contact at the “Back Office Project La Venaria Reale”, where she gained important experience in the field of administrative law, in particular in public procurement and administrative proceedings.
Since 2007 she has been a member of the Turin Bar Association and worked as a lawyer at the Law Firm Prof. Andrea Comba and Mario Comba & Associates specialized in administrative law.
From 2012 to 2014 she attended the II Level Master in Public Administration Law at the University of Turin, graduating with full marks with the drafting of a judgment on administrative and accounting responsibility in holding foundations.
Since 2017 she has continued her professional career in the Leading Law Notaries and Lawyers network, mainly dealing with out-of-court consultancy and judicial assistance in the field of public procurement, cultural and landscape heritage, new forms of participation between public entities and public-law bodies, public employment, construction and urban planning, public education.
She is a member of various Supervisory Bodies, pursuant to Legislative Decree 231/2001 as amended, particularly in the irrigation and reclamation and infrastructure sectors.
In 2018 she was elected to the Steering Committee of the Piedmont Administrative Lawyers Association.
Currently cooperates with the magazine “The new law of companies”, in the Public administration and business section, Publisher Giappichelli, directed by Prof. O. Cagnasso
Enrico Maria Picco
Expert in civil and commercial law in the judicial and extrajudicial fields with particular attention to national and international contracts and M&A transactions. He is expert in assisting clients in the drafting and negotiation of commercial distribution agreements, agency agreements, sale and purchase agreements, joint venture agreements, risk and revenue sharing agreements, EPC contracts, shareholder agreements, and in general, in the drafting and negotiation of any contract or general contract conditions in the industrial sector. He also coordinates our M&A Team in stock exchange listing transactions and company acquisitions in Italy and abroad, together with our partners in Europe, USA, United Arab Emirates, China and South East Asia. Experience gained both as a freelance lawyer and as a General Counsel and Chief Risk Officer in leading Multinational Industrial Groups in the Aerospace, Defense, Engineering, Chemical, Telecommunications, Railway and Information Technology sectors. He deals with consultancy on Health & Safety and Environmental Law in the industrial field, as well as Compliance. In this context, he contributed to the drafting of numerous Organization, Management and Control Models 231/2001 and is/was chairman/member in the SB 231 of leading Italian companies. Expert in I.T.A.R. and DUAL –USE. He has been dealing with civil liability and medical malpractice for years. It also collaborates with various associations to protect the so-called weaker groups and has dedicated himself to some important cases of victims of discrimination, mobbing, straining, stalking and bullying in the workplace and school.
Giovanni Rota
He has been practicing for over twenty-five years, in minor jurisdictions and at the Supreme Court, was a member of the boards of directors of leading Italian companies and has been involved in asset management and more recently in Crisis Settlement Bodies or restructuring for companies.
The specific skills of the firm concern:
Civil liability: defense of companies, health facilities, nursing homes or private professionals both in civil and criminal matters.
Specialized in techniques for surveying and kinematic reconstruction of road accidents reconstruction of road accidents and in the appeal of fines in the field of road traffic in function of the protection for the compensation of civil damage.
Private sector: condominium law and private property, contracts for relations with credit institutions.
Bankruptcy procedures: assistance to individuals or companies in debt restructuring or extraordinary operations.
Inheritance law: succession, inheritance or co-ownership divisions
Civil and Commercial Mediation Civil Mediator: founder of a civil and corporate Mediation Body in which he works as Master in Business Lawyer: he has developed a propensity to work in a team with an outstanding empathic ability.
AREA OF ACTIVITY
Support causes at:
– the Supreme Court of Cassation
– the Court of Appeal of Brescia and Milan.
– the Court of Bergamo
– the Court of Lecco and Como and Brescia
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.
