The Firm introduces M&I's Studio Legale Marone e Ianni, an Italian law firm established in September 2012 in Milan. The partners, Pierfrancesco Marone and Giovanna Ianni, intend to provide high-profile legal assistance to clients and actively contribute to their business development. The firm offers legal services in litigation, commercial law, M&A, corporate law, bankruptcy, real estate, and other areas. The partners have extensive experience and seek to qualify themselves with high professional standards and timely response to client needs.

1. Introducing The Firm
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2. The Firm
M&I’s Studio Legale Marone e Ianni is established in September 2012 as a brand new Italian Law Firm, having its
seat in Milan.
The Partners, having a long and consolidated experience, intend to deliver its own clients high profile professional
assistance, in the belief that within the current economic Italian environment, lawyers have to actively contribute in
the development of the business activity of the clients.
M&I's provides legal assistance in judicial and out-of-court matters, aiming at offering its clients the possibility to
perform competitive and aware entrepreneurial choices, by adopting adequate and specific legal means. The Firm
is composed by several professionals, having expertise in civil litigation matters, in national and international
arbitration procedures, as well as in the field of corporate M&A transactions.
Within an intentionally tight dimension of the Firm, Pierfrancesco Marone and Giovanna Ianni intend to use and
develop their technical skills, in connection with their deep knowledge of the entrepreneurial and managing world, by
providing legal on-going services, tailored to the clients’ expectations, qualifying themselves for the high
professional standards and for their capacity to promptly respond to their needs.
Both Partners have developed steady cooperation relationships of soft-networking with tax & legal professionals, in
Italy and in other EU countries; within the litigation area, the Firm collaborates with a trustworthy selection of local
lawyers.
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3. Services
Litigation and Credit Recovery Procedures
National and international civil litigation, ordinary and special civil actions, according to the Italian civil
procedure code, in any status (also before the High Court) and also by way of urgency, in particular in the
following areas:
• Financial and Banking Law: assistance to primary banking groups within the litigations raised with its own
customers in connection to banking, investment and financial products and services
• Corporate Law, with particular reference to claims against the directors, challenging the general shareholders’
resolutions or resolving on the yearly financial statements, complaints to the statutory auditors board and /or to
Court, actions of protection of the rights of the minority shareholders
• Judicial assistance for the protection of individual rights against insurance companies, with particular reference
to indemnification claims; law suits on civil liability cases, involving material, moral, biological and punitive
damages, also on cases of manufacturers’ liability
• Injunction and enforcement procedures aiming at credit recovery over the whole Italian territory in favour of
companies and banks
• Mediation, ADR procedures, negotiation activities aiming at preventing judicial litigation and disputes
• Arbitration procedures, with particular reference to real estate / commercial and corporate related matters
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4. Services
Commercial Law
Legal activity aiming at drafting and negotiating the following commercial contracts:
• Services (private and public tenders)
• Supply, distribution and sale of goods and services
• JVs
• Loans and financing agreements
• Real estate investment agreements
• Leasing
• Hotel Management
• Franchising
• General conditions of purchasing and sale
• Automotive dealers agreements, post-sale service agreements
• Merchandising, sponsoring, advertising agreements
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5. Services
M&A and Corporate
Assistance in the following corporate related matters:
• Transfer of corporate participations and business (M&A): drafting and negotiations of letters of intent, SPA,
shareholders’ agreements and any other contractual document related to the transaction
• Other corporate transactions: national and cross-border mergers, one single entity projects (restructuring activities
of national and international corporate groups, including transfer of businesses, corporate transformation and
setting up of business units, contributions in kind, etc.)
• Assistance is delivered to Italian and foreign clients (directly in the local preferred language) in the conduct of the
activities related the structuring of the operation, in due diligence processes (seller e buy-side), negotiations and
contract drafting
• Corporate governance e secretary activities:
 Drafting of articles of association and by-laws, shareholders’ agreements and corporate related documents
 Building up of corporate internal powers system, drafting of proxies and identification of the reporting decisional
lines within the corporate management structure (drafting of internal corporate rules or similar documentation,
along with the drafting of the proxies and of the related shareholders’ and board of directors’ meetings minutes
 Drafting of minutes of the shareholders and board of directors meetings, updating of the corporate books,
coordination activity with Notary Publics, whenever necessary
 Setting up of companies, branches, units, etc. and accomplishment of the related formalities
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6. Services
Bankruptcy and Insolvency Law – Debt Restructuring Procedures
• Preparation and negotiation of debt restructuring agreements, reorganization plans, bankruptcy agreements,
compositions with creditors, turnaround projects
• Assistance in the different phases of the business crisis, including the management of the judicial claims
connected to the bankruptcy procedures
• Assistance to the entrepreneur in all phases prior to the opening of the bankruptcy procedure; recovery actions,
claw-back actions, procedures of opposition to the bankruptcy declaration, late credit recovery actions;
creditors’ assistance to any claim and/or action aiming at obtaining credits recognition within the bankruptcy
debt mass
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7. Services
Real Estate Law
• Sale and purchase transactions, spin-off, financing, setting up and development of real estate property
contracts over the whole national territory, with particular reference to large retail areas and properties and
hotel buildings
• Drafting of rent agreements for commercial and private purposes, taking into account customers’ requirements
pursuant to the in-force laws
• Opinions on specific provisions in the rent agreements, ancillary to the law requirements and ruling the
economic terms of the agreement
• Assistance in court procedures due to the end of the rent or aiming at the recovery of the credits deriving by the
non-fulfillment of the payment obligations under the rent agreement
• Contractual and judicial assistance in the defense of the real estate ownership and other rights
• Assistance in litigation (in and out court) among homeowners and within the relationships between
homeowners and real estate property manager, also in case of opposition to homeowners’ meetings resolutions
before the competent judicial authority
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8. Services
Competition Law and Antitrust
• Advise activity on competition law, on national and EU level, in and out of court
• Drafting of opinions in order to:
 Coordinate and implement business decisions in compliance with antitrust Italian / European rules
 Execute with competing companies and entities appropriate agreements of distribution, association and
cooperation of whichever kind
• Drafting of the legally required notices to the Competition authorities
• Opinions on EU competition law as enforced in the automotive sector
Personal Data Protection Law (Privacy)
Advise and opinions on the implementation of the rules concerning the personal data protection law; drafting of
the legally required documents (notifications, appointments, etc.); due diligence activities in order to identify the
most convenient privacy structure of the customers
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9. The Partners
Avv. Pierfrancesco Marone
p.marone@maroneianni.it
Pierfrancesco establishes his firm in the year 2000, in Milano. Since then, he develops a long experience in litigation
matters, both before national courts and arbitration panels. He provides legal assistance in any kind of claim and in
particular in the areas related to banking and finance, as well as in corporate and real estate matters. Further,
Pierfrancesco has gained significant experience in commercial law, specifically in the drafting and negotiation of
several agreements and understandings of different nature.
Born in Milan, on September 16, 1968, he graduates in law in 1993, at the State University of Milan, admitted to the
Milan Bar Association in 1996; he is admitted to plead at the High Court (Corte di Cassazione) on 2011.
Languages: Italian and English
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10. The Partners
Avv. Giovanna Ianni
g.ianni@maroneianni.it
Giovanna is experienced in commercial and corporate law, and in M&A transactions. Her working activity has
developed over the last 15 years within primary international tax & law firms; she has advised domestic and
multinational companies, on all matters related to corporate issues, mergers & acquisitions, and on corporate
governance re-structuring transactions; she has been dedicated to the performance of reorganization processes and
on group structuring, including cross-border mergers and bankruptcy procedures implementation.
Born in Naples, on February 24, 1967, graduates in Law at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan in 1993;
she is admitted to the Milan Bar Association on 1996.
Languages: Italian, English, Spanish, German and French
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11. Avv. Pierfrancesco Marone
Avv. Giovanna Ianni
20122 Milano - Galleria Unione, 3 - Tel. +39 02 5412.1813 +39 02 5412.9337 - Fax +39 02 5519.1565 - www.maroneianni.it