Civil Law

The Law Firm provides advice and assistance in traditional areas of civil law (ownership, obligations, contracts and liability), both in Court and out of Court.

Banking law

The Law Firm has been providing assistance in litigation concerning bank relationships, brokerage services and financial markets for 40 years. It advises banks and financial intermediaries in Court disputes on the application of bank/financial laws and regulations as well as on the following issues: bank incorporations, relationships with supervisors, public offerings, investment services and financial instruments, corporate governance. The many cases which the Law Firm has dealt with include cases on loans and revocations in bank relationships, invalidity of loans and financing, issues related to liens, securities and sureties, matters relating to leases and factoring, invalidity of clauses in bank contracts, usury and compounding.

Industrial and intellectual property law

The Law Firm has an in-depth knowledge of all issues connected with the law on trademarks, patents and other distinctive signs, designs and models, designations of origin and geographical indications, unfair competition, copyright, antitrust law, know-how issues. It provides assistance and represents its clients in precautionary and evidential proceedings, with considerable experience in injunction proceedings and compensation for damages.

Commercial and corporate law

Our professionals provide advice and assistance in the establishment of companies and in major events concerning corporate activity: from the configuration of the corporate structure to corporate governance, capital disinvestment, liquidation and succession. In particular, the Firm provides assistance for the establishment and organization of new businesses and their internal and external structure; it draws up deeds of incorporation, articles of association and shareholders’ agreements; it provides assistance in the fulfillment of corporate obligations, also in relation to meetings and resolutions of governing bodies (Boards of Directors, Statutory Auditors, shareholders’ meetings); it offers advice in corporate disputes, including those concerning the liability of directors, extraordinary corporate transactions (including transformations, mergers and acquisitions; transfers and assignments of companies and business branches; sales of shares and corporate assets).

The Law Firm has interdisciplinary knowledge in business law and consolidated experience in the transfer of companies and businesses, mergers and demergers.

It draws up all types of commercial contracts, including sales, distribution, agency, supply, franchising, lease, license agreements. It provides advice to partnerships, consortia, associations, businesses, agricultural and wine-making companies.

Innovative start-ups

The Law Firm provides advice and assistance to innovative start-ups engaged in the development, production and marketing of products and services of a high technological value. It provides operational support in regulating their various business phases, from their registration with the Trade Registry to the fulfilment of corporate obligations, the management of incentive tax allowances, the practical applicability of subsidies for start-up development and growth, and the regulation of labour relations.

Bankruptcy law

The Law Firm provides advice and assistance in the pathological (and physiological) stage of the crisis and insolvency of corporations as well as advice in all types of insolvency proceedings, including debt restructuring activities. Its professionals offer expert advice in bankruptcy proceedings, revocatory actions, liability actions against directors and auditors as well as appeals against debt statements in bankruptcy proceedings. The Law Firm deals with the analysis, study and submittal of requests for compositions with creditors and bankruptcy petitions.

Medical liability

The entry into force of new regulations on medical professional liability will change the traditional conceptualization of the liability of physicians and healthcare facilities.

The Law Firm offers Court and out-of-Court advice on claims for damages deriving from professional liability. To verify the extent and type of pecuniary and non-pecuniary damages suffered by the victim (pecuniary, biological, moral, existential damages), the Law Firm relies on expert consultants in the medical field, also for the purpose of quantifying the exact amount of damages to be claimed.

Arbitration law

The Vettori Law Firm professionals offer assistance in arbitration proceedings, including institutional arbitration proceedings, as instruments of alternative dispute resolution, acting as attorneys, arbitrators and Presidents of Arbitration panels.

Telecommunications law

The Law Firm represents companies active in broadcasting and telecommunications, electronic communications and audiovisual media, with particular regard to competition law, innovation law and antitrust law. The Law Firm provides advice and assistance in relation to the publishing and telecommunications sector, with particular attention to aspects relating to the media and the exploitation of literary works, issues pertaining to the balance between freedom of the press and privacy protection, advice and assistance in the protection of advertising campaigns, trademarks, slogans and claims.

Labour law

The Law Firm provides advice on employment, social security and trade union law to medium/large-sized, Italian and foreign industrial, commercial and financial groups and companies. The issues it deals with are mainly labour contracts, transfers, missions, secondments and changes of duties, disciplinary procedures and individual and collective dismissals, staff reductions, job security agreements, corporate restructuring, assignments, mergers, demergers and spin-offs, payment and regulatory issues, labour issues connected with privacy rules and information technologies, administrative and self-employment relationships, staff leasing contracts.

Sports Law

The Law Firm assists, advises and represents professional football players, associations, professional and amateur sports clubs; it provides professional assistance in case of sports disciplinary proceedings. It assists its clients in all issues connected with sports employment, contracts and the drafting of negotiated agreements as well as the representation before sports arbitration panels.

Administrative law

The Law Firm provides advice in proceedings before Regional Administrative Courts and the Council of State in different areas of administrative law (service and work contracts, energy, antitrust, pollution, telecommunications, contracts, land management, construction, urban planning and the environment, the civil service, liability of the PA). The Law Firm ensures professional qualified assistance relating to public contracts and procurements in favour of leading Italian and foreign companies.

Real Estate

The Law Firm provides real estate assistance and advice, including the negotiation and drafting of contracts, especially in relation to the purchase and lease of residential and commercial property, hotels, procurements and operations for the sale-purchase of real estate.

European private law

The Law Firm constantly monitors the development of European private law with special attention to the comparative method, which is nowadays essential both in relation to persons and fundamental rights in the European framework (Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union) and in terms of the harmonization already implemented by the European Union on unlawful acts, contract law and European civil liability.

Insurance Law

The Law Firm offers legal advice and assistance to insurance companies.

Consumer rights and product liability

Assistance and advice, also in Court, on consumers’ rights and product liability.

Family and inheritance law

Assistance and advice in all matters relating to family law: divorce and separation; child custody; child support; allocation of the marital home; cohabitation; assessment of the spouse’s living standards; inheritance and succession; assistance in the preparation of public or secret wills.

As for inheritance matters, the Law Firm had consolidated experience in several issues: research into and study of the origin of the deceased’s estate; drawing up declarations of succession and their filing with the competent offices; cadastral investigations; usufruct transfers; formal requests of any kind relating to succession; hereditary advice; inheritance renunciation; assistance in public deeds; inheritance planning execution; drafting of wills according to the testator’s wishes; inheritance planning; assessment of the possibility of disposal (available quota, usufruct); inheritance planning within companies; custody of last wills and testaments; in case of death, submittal of instructions to the competent authorities; execution of wills on behalf of testators or heirs; protection of interests, execution of last wills and testaments; drawing up of inventory; organization of heirs’ meetings and neutral mediation between them; preparation and custody of Biological Testaments.