Withers Worldwide

Our Italian team has been advising Italian individuals, families and family offices for over twenty years. Offering English, Italian and US law advice through our bilingual lawyers, we deliver a comprehensive range of services wherever they are needed. In additional to assisting our clients in Italy, our Milan practice coordinates a network of Italian Desks set up in our London, New York, Geneva and Hong Kong offices which serve as a point of reference to clients in those areas.

Over the course of the years, we have also forged close links with a wide variety of Italian avvocati, commercialisti and other professional advisers in Italy and work alongside them to provide the personal services our mutual clients require.

The history of our Milan office begins with its opening in 1995 to make access to English and US law advice more convenient for our Italian based clients.

In 2005 we created an Italian law desk in London to offer Italian advice to US and English clients. Avv. Roberta Crivellaro (a bilingual Avvocato/Solicitor) became the head of this first "Italian Desk". In 2007 we were joined in Hong Kong by Guy Facey, a UK solicitor fluent in Italian, French and Mandarin with many years' experience in advising Chinese and Italian companies and individuals.

Most recently, in 2009, the Milan office was expanded with the addition of two new partners, Luigi M Macioce, and Riccardo Buizza, and their team of four associates, under the leadership of practice General Manager, Roberta Crivellaro, who moved to Italy for this purpose, and Chairman of Withers LLP, Anthony Indiamo. Luigi is both a lawyer and an Italian tax advisor (ccmmercialista) specialising in assisting Italian and foreign clients on domestic and international tax planning. In 2009, Gabriel Monzon Cortarelli, a US lawyer previously based in the Milan office, moved to New York to set up our Italian Desk there to assist our clients interested in investing in the US and vice versa.

Lawyers in our Italian team are active members of various associations with Italian connections such as Business Club Italia, British Italian Law Association, Italian Chamber of Commerce and Industry for the UK, British Chamber of Commerce for Italy, American Chamber of Commerce in Italy, GEI, Gruppo Esponenti Italiani and the Italy-America Chamber of Commerce in New York to name a few.