WHAT THE FIRM SAYS

Pirola Pennuto Zei & Associati is composed of professionals, 150 business lawyers and 350 tax consultants, many of whom participated in some of Italy’s most significant corporate and financing operations over the past decade. The firm has 11 offices, nine in Italy - Milan, Rome, Turin, Padua, Bologna, Brescia, Naples, Verona, Parma - one in London and one in Beijing.

Pirola Pennuto Zei & Associati’s clients can rely on a firm which adopts the most advanced information technology systems and offers the highest standards in the practice of law, in-depth industry knowledge and a long-term approach to client relationships. The firm focuses on selected areas of practice as guarantee for competence and top quality of the tax and legal services provided, thereby increasing efficiency and combining the trust relationship between the professional and the client with organisational skills in order to manage complex operations.

The strategic presence of the firm in some of the most dynamic Italian cities and the in-depth knowledge of local environment grant clients an effective support to their operations in the Italian market.

Pirola Pennuto Zei & Associati offer a broad range of tax and legal solutions in the areas of Italian, EU and international law, in all transactional matters and litigation contexts. The firm advises many of Italy’s leading corporations and several major Italian banks, both domestically and abroad. The representation of foreign clients both in Italy and internationally constitutes a significant part of the firm’s practice.

Among Pirola Pennuto Zei & Associati’s professionals there are lawyers who are admitted to practise in foreign jurisdictions, thereby providing clients with direct access internationally. As to UK and France, specific desks have been created, each of them headed by a counsel admitted in the relevant jurisdiction. The Asian desk is staffed with Italian lawyers speaking English and Chinese, well experienced in China’s and India’s legal and economic environment. The firm has close links with the world’s leading tax and law firms and is focused to an internationalisation policy to better serve clients’ interests.

MAIN AREAS OF PRACTICE: Corporate law; M&A and private equity; banking and finance; tax consultancy (tax planning, VAT, transfer price, litigation); tax litigation; litigation; insolvency and corporate reorganisation; antitrust and European law; employment; media entertainment and telecommunications; intellectual property and information technology; privacy and information protection; insurance law; administrative; energy and environmental law; real estate.

LANGUAGES: Italian, English, French, German, Hebrew, Chinese and Spanish.

OFFICES:
ITALY: Bologna, Brescia, Naples, Padua, Parma, Rome, Turin, Verona
UK: London
CHINA: Beijing