‘The leading corporate compliance practice in Italy’, BonelliErede‘s corporate compliance and investigations focus team routinely assists companies with the prevention of possible fraud or corruption. The firm also acts in internal investigations, and is the owner of beLab, an alternative legal service provider with a compliance management and investigations business unit. Francesco Sbisà brings expertise to corporate administrative liability matters. The next line of advisers includes corporate compliance specialist and managing associate Vincenzo Dell’Osso and counsel and internal corporate investigations expert Valentina Frignati. In a major boost to the practice, Alessandro De Nicola, Marco Dell’Antonia, Marco Mancino, Laura Cappiello and Ivan Rotunno all joined the firm from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe in February 2024. Alessandro Musella left the firm in early 2024.

DLA Piper's compliance team provides a comprehensive service, advising on matters ranging from corporate compliance programmes, data protection compliance and internal and regulatory investigations to anti-bribery and corruption, international sanctions, crime prevention and anti-money laundering. The group is jointly led by Raffaella Quintana and Antonio Carino, an expert in compliance programmes and investigations. The team is supported at the associate level by business crime practitioner Raffaele Perfetto and Francesco Lalli, who brings strength to corporate compliance work.

Acting for domestic and international companies, ADVANT Nctm brings expertise to such sectors as energy, transport, infrastructure, life sciences, healthcare, and art and luxury. The practice’s expertise covers white-collar crime, corporate governance, anti-corruption and anti-bribery, anti-money laundering, whistleblowing and the administrative liability of corporate entities. Team head Raffaele Caldarone focuses on company law, corporate governance and anti-corruption compliance programmes. Luca Cavagnaro maintains a wide-ranging compliance workload and advises in criminal proceedings. Laura Perrone routinely advises on the administrative liability of legal entities.

Experts in corporate criminal law, Studio Professionale Associato a Baker & McKenzie's team is experienced in setting up compliance models that prevent white-collar and corporate crimes. Its expertise covers matters ranging from internal investigations, corruption, tax crime and bankruptcy to environmental compliance and health and safety issues. Practice head Lorenzo De Martinis focuses on tech sector-related compliance matters. Roberto Cursano assists with anti-bribery work and trade compliance issues. Other key figures include white-collar litigator Luca Bassi, senior associates Francesca Baratta and Riccardo Ovidi and associate Matteo Maria Morelli.

Advising on the entire spectrum of compliance work, Bird & Bird's Italy practice houses experts in regulatory compliance, corporate 231 matters, data protection, cybersecurity and product compliance. The team's expertise also covers advertising pre-clearance, consumer protection and antitrust. Key figures include financial regulation specialist Raimondo Maggiore; Stefano Febbi, a regulatory compliance adviser; and Simone Caddedu, who focuses on EU and Italian administrative regulation. In addition, the department features Rossella Sansone, who is experienced in asset management and financial services, and Federico Marini Balestra, a former legal officer at the Italian Communications Authority.

Part of the regulatory investigations and financial crimes team, Clifford Chance's Italy compliance group is consistently mandated to design, implement and execute compliance programmes, particularly systems and controls to prevent criminal offences. It also assists with internal investigations. Practice head Antonio Golino advises on compliance-related internal systems and controls, while Giuseppe Principato is an expert in prevention and disgorgement measures. Senior associate Stella Magistro focuses on 231 systems and controls for multinational companies.

Deloitte Legal Italy -Società tra Avvocati a r.l.‘s compliance department is regularly mandated by companies to advise on Decree 231-related organisational, management and control models. The team’s practitioners also participate in 231 advisory bodies. Other areas of strength are health and safety at work-related compliance matters, anti-corruption programmes and whistleblowing systems. Assisting domestic and international clients on the implementation of regulatory compliance programmes, Josephine Romano heads the firm’s Italy corporate compliance practice. Providing key support are Ivana Azzollini, Massimo Zamorani and Francesco Brunelli, along with associates Sonia Belloli and Cecilia Pontiggia.

In April 2023, Greenberg Traurig Santa Maria's compliance and white-collar defence and investigations team was bolstered by the arrival of Bruno Cova and Massimo Ugo Maria Contesso from Studio Legale Delfino e Associati Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP. Cova, who is ‘arguably one of the top compliance lawyers in the country‘, advises the buyers of companies impacted by wrongdoing, assists with internal investigations and corporate governance issues, in addition to representing companies facing criminal actions. Contesso advises on white-collar crime matters. Another key contact, Mariafrancesca De Leo, is experienced in internal investigations.

Hogan Lovells International LLP‘s Italian practice covers the compliance aspects of antitrust, data privacy, investigations, corruption, white-collar crime, environmental law, tax and employment. Among the group’s several active advisers, Francesca Rolla is a specialist in product litigation and compliance, as well as investigations; Massimiliano Masnada advises on privacy and data protection; Jeffrey Greenbaum heads the Italy financial institutions practice; and Vittorio Moresco leads the employment law group in Italy. Other key figures are Serena Pietrosanti, Christian Di Mauro and Francesca Angeloni. Since publication, Sabrina Borocci left the firm.

A&O Shearman's Milan-based team advises on a broad range of criminal and regulatory investigations, particularly cross-border and compliance matters. In December 2022, the practice recruited Francesca Petronio, a specialist in white-collar crime, compliance issues, and administrative and criminal liability from Studio Legale Delfino e Associati Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP. Petronio, who also assists with internal investigations, is supported by Livio Bossotto, Emilio De Giorgi and Francesco Guelfi.

Acting for production, commercial and finance companies, Chiomenti’s white-collar crime and investigation team advises on the full spectrum of compliance matters. Francesco D’Alessandro focuses on bribery and corruption, financial crime, bankruptcy, Decree 231-related corporate liability, and tax and environmental crime; Stefano Manacorda advises on corporate compliance and business criminal law; and Pierluigi Perri is data protection and cybersecurity head. Alain Maria Dell’Osso and Marilena Hyeraci are also experienced practitioners. Since publication, Sara Biglieri joined the firm.

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton's Italy team is experienced in a wide range of compliance matters, including group governance restructuring. Andrea Mantovani advises on the compliance aspects of personal data protection, privacy and cybersecurity, and internal investigations and proceedings before the Data Protection Authority. Laura Prosperetti has ‘extensive experience with Italian and European regulatory laws‘. Counsel Francesco De Biasi departed for an in-house position in December 2022.

Gianni & Origoni's Milan-based practice has longstanding experience in Decree 231 matters. Other notable areas are privacy and data protection-related issues, along with the implications in Italy of international proceedings under the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act 1997 and UK Bribery Act 2010. The team is jointly led by Federico Busatta, whose practice covers compliance and white-collar crime, and product liability expert Daniele Vecchi. Associate Francesca Chiara Bevilacqua brings experience in corporate criminal liability issues.

LCA Studio Legale's team routinely advises on crime prevention, anti-money laundering, and the compliance side to EU sanctions. Matteo Uslenghi is a criminal law expert; Nicolò Pelanda's expertise covers compliance work involving corporate crimes; and Maria Sardelli is an expert in Decree 231 matters. Managing associate Giovanni Morgese advises companies on the implementation of organisation, management and control models, and assists with corporate compliance and investigation matters.

Legance - Avvocati Associati's compliance department advises on regulatory compliance, anti-money laundering, anti-corruption legislation and Decree 231 matters. The team also assists with banking and insurance compliance. Andrea Fedi has substantial experience in compliance, privacy and anti-bribery work. Marco Penna heads the firm’s financial intermediaries regulations department. Niccolò Bertolini Clerici focuses on white-collar crime-related work. The practice further includes litigator Valentina Masi, whose practice includes the administrative liability of entities.

Pavia e Ansaldo's compliance team brings expertise in the firm’s core sectors – luxury retail, healthcare and pharmaceuticals. The group also has strong credentials in telecoms, energy, transport and aviation-related compliance work. An expert in the application of Italy’s 231/2001 legislation, department head Mario Di Giulio is regularly appointed as chair of companies’ compliance supervisory bodies. Providing key support, Caterina Luciani assists with reviewing organisational models.

CMS' Italy team routinely advises on companies’ liability for crimes committed by their representatives and employees. The practice also assists with corporate compliance strategies. The track record of Italy fraud and corporate criminal defence department head Emilio Battaglia includes being appointed by companies as a member of their supervisory bodies.

Part of Dentons‘ global compliance and investigations group, the firm’s multidisciplinary Italy group advises on compliance management, corporate compliance, anti-corruption, investigations, data protection and antitrust compliance. Matteo Vizzardi specialises in white-collar crime. Roberto Fabio Lipari‘s practice encompasses both compliance and investigations work. Since publication, Sara Biglieri left the firm.

The key areas for Eptalex Garzia Gasperi and Partners are corporate compliance and the administrative liability of legal entities. The firm also advises on data protection, anti-money laundering, anti-corruption and export control. The team is headed by Lorenzo Mulazzi, who brings over 13 years of experience in the compliance arena. Other key figures include senior associate Erica Stragiotti and associate Pierluca Ius.

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe's Italy team advises corporations and global financial institutions on governance, risk management and compliance. It is particularly active in matters involving corporate criminal liability, sanctions law, whistleblowing, anti-corruption, and health, safety and environmental regulation. In addition to heading the firm’s Italian white-collar and corporate investigations offering, Jean-Paule Castagno chairs the supervisory bodies of major corporates. Alessandro De Nicola, Marco Dell’Antonia, Marco Mancino, Laura Cappiello and Ivan Rotunno all departed the firm in February 2024.

Pirola Pennuto Zei & Associati's Milan-based regulatory, compliance and data protection practice advises on Decree 231 matters, health and safety at work and anti-corruption. The team also assists with internal investigations. Team head Roberta Di Vieto is experienced in drafting organisational models, while Daniele Ghedi is a member of several companies’ supervisory bodies.

Bolstered by its January 2023 merger with Jenny.Avvocati, bureau Plattner provides a comprehensive service, bringing expertise to Decree 231 matters. The team’s full offering covers compliance programmes, in addition to the compliance aspects of data protection, competition and workplace safety. The practice is jointly led by compliance programme expert Simona Gallo; Carlo Gurioli, a specialist in the energy and IT sectors; experienced corporate lawyer Christoph Jenny; and Massimo Petrucci, who handles complex tax law matters.