Giovanni Sabatini joins GA as senior advisor, where he will coordinate the entire area of expertise in Banking, Regulatory, and Financial Services. In particular, he will be in charge of strategic consultancy in relations with Italian (Bank of Italy, Consob, Ivass, Agcm, Covip) and European (European Commission, European Central Bank, ESMA, EBA, SRB) institutions in the banking, financial and insurance fields.

Graduated in Economics and Business at the LUISS University in Rome, he began his professional career in 1984 at Arthur Young & Co. After an experience in Consob, in 2001 he was CEO of Monte Titoli S.p.A. and Chairman of ECSDA.

After joining Consob as Director of the Intermediaries Division, he was Head of the Legal and Banking Affairs Department of the Ministry of Economy and Finance.

In 2008 he returned to Consob as Co-Director, and from 2009 to 2024 he took on the role of Director General of the ABI.

In recent years, he has been for two two-year terms Chairman of the Executive Committee of FBE, Chairman of the Strategic Committee for Sustainable Growth of FBE, member of the EESC; Vice-Chairman of Bancomat, member of the Board of Directors of Fondo Italiano di Investimento, member of the Italian Committee for Corporate Governance, member of the Consultation Committee of Borsa Italiana. He is Vice-President of CBI and independent director of the Deposit Protection Fund.

‘’We are very excited‘’, says Francesco Sciaudone, Global Managing Partner of GA, ‘’that Giovanni will be able to contribute to the development of GA in a strategic sector such as banking, finance and insurance in Italy and Europe, to the benefit of all national and international clients. Giovanni's contribution will be fundamental to finally building a professional service offer (strategic, legal and tax) for the market and economic operators who have always had to deal with an increasingly complex regulatory mosaic and a plurality of stakeholders.‘’

Gianluca Bertolotti is Grimaldi Alliance's new of counsel in corporate governance and corporate crisis. His arrival further strengthens the Rome office and its area of expertise in commercial, corporate and industrial law, advisory and litigation.

Bertolotti is Professor of Commercial Law and Industrial Law at the University of Roma Tre, where he is also Director of the Commercial Law Area of the School of Specialisation for the Legal Professions. He is also a lecturer at the Guardia di Finanza School of Economic and Financial Police and a member of the Scientific Committee of the Ministry of Economy and Finance for the continuous training of Legal Auditors.

Bertolotti is a highly experienced professional with significant expertise in corporate law, financial markets, corporate governance, arbitration, banking law, crisis law and restructuring; in his long career he has held and continues to hold prestigious institutional and academic positions.

Professor Bertolotti has also been Legal Advisor to the Bicameral Commission of Inquiry into the Banking and Financial Markets System, Judicial Advisor to the Rome Court of Appeal and Head of Assonime's Corporate and Financial Markets sector, and is a lawyer admitted to practice before the Superior Jurisdictions.

"We are delighted to welcome Gianluca Bertolotti to Grimaldi Alliance. I am sure that he will bring with him an important professional background deriving from his years of experience in the academic world and in the profession and will be able to further enrich the quality of professional services that we increasingly want to offer in an integrated manner to national and international clients,’ commented Francesco Sciaudone, Global Managing Partner of Grimaldi Alliance.

Grimaldi Alliance expands in Sweden with SALC, a leading full service law firm with great tradition and expertise.

GA - active internationally in over 50 jurisdictions - and led by Global Managing Partner Francesco Sciaudone, announces the addition of SALC, a Swedish boutique full service law firm with great experience and professional standing.

SALC, founded in 2006, is GA's new partner for Sweden and the Scandinavian countries, completing the range of professional services that can be offered in the area with important expertise in litigation - domestic and international - and corporate.

SALC's founding partner, Dan Engström, has more than 30 years of experience in dispute resolution, as well as in franchise and commercial contract management.Engström is also admitted to handle international arbitrations, particularly in intellectual property matters.

Jan Stålhandske, another prominent partner in the firm, on the other hand, has extensive experience in the infrastructure and utilities sector and has worked on, among other things, the regulation of postal, railway and telecommunications markets.He specialises in advocacy, arbitration, acting as an arbitrator and as a lawyer.

"We are delighted to announce the entry of SALC into the Grimaldi Alliance. Their experience and professionalism allow us to expand GA's coverage to the Scandinavian region and Sweden in particular, continuing GA's international growth. Every day we receive more and more requests for support in cross-border activities from customers and partners of GA, which is increasingly establishing itself as one of the leading international networks,’ said Francesco Sciaudone, Global Managing Partner of the Grimaldi Alliance.

Grimaldi Alliance has appointed Ambassador Giovanni Castellaneta as its new Senior Advisor.

After a prestigious diplomatic career that took him to Iran, Australia and the United States as Ambassador, he was also Diplomatic Advisor to the Prime Minister and his Personal Representative (Sherpa) for the G8 Summits.

Today, he is Chairman of doValue S.p.A., Secretary General of the Adriatic Ionian Initiative (IAI), Director of Exprivia and Chairman of Diplomatia, having previously held corporate governance positions as Chairman of SACE, Torre SGR, Milano Sesto S.p.A., and Director of Leonardo/Finmeccanica, among others.

He was awarded the honour of Cavalier di Gran Croce of the Italian Republic.

"It is an honour to have Ambassador Castellaneta with us who, with his great international experience, will give a great strategic and visionary contribution to our growth, helping us to consolidate our expansion path and to better read the world geopolitical map," underlined Francesco Sciaudone, managing partner of Grimaldi Alliance.

Grimaldi Alliance, an international legal services network with over 2000 professionals operating in 70 markets, strengthens its strategic presence in Saudi Arabia. After the Jeddah office, offices will also open in the cities of Riyadh and Dammam thanks to the important joint venture between the Egyptian firm - already partner of Grimaldi Alliance - ALC and the Saudi firm Mithaq.

The team will consist of more than 20 multilingual professionals based in the three locations and will represent the new regional player for Grimaldi Alliance, which thus triples its presence in the Arabian Peninsula with this new strategic alliance.

In detail, Mithaq & ALC Alieldean Weshahi and Partners will be able to count on a team of Saudi Arabian professionals, bilingual lawyers with great global experience, who are strongly synergic with the international team of the Grimaldi Alliance.

Grimaldi Alliance thus strengthens its presence in an extremely important and strategically crucial country for the area's economic development in the coming years.

This is also confirmed by the words of Managing Partner Francesco Sciaudone: "The fundamental role of Saudi Arabia for the whole region is well known and with our partners in the Emirates, Egypt, Turkey and other important countries in the region, GA Saudi Arabia will be able to offer a unique platform to help customers and professionals from all over the world. In fact, GA Saudi Arabia represents the only truly international professional legal hub able to support sophisticated multinational clients seeking to invest in the region and the only one that is able to provide assistance in relation to Arab investments in over 60 countries around the world, able to support them directly from Riyadh, Jeddah and Dammam."  

"Moreover, thanks to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's recent inclusion in the BRICS bloc and its commitment to the Saudi Vision 2030 programme, we firmly believe that this region will play a key role in the growth of our business. It is willing to contribute significantly to the success of our alliance," Sciaudone concluded. 

"Grimaldi Alliance is born….. it is the first time that an Italian professional entity is able to offer such a wide geographical coverage in Italy and abroad, with such a unique mix of skills: a real one-stop shop, for all the services available and the countries covered: the fundamental differentiator of Grimaldi Alliance is in the mix of skills it has and in the interdisciplinary approach it can offer in all areas, at national and international level unique in its kind".

Grimaldi Alliance's areas of expertise are corporate and M&A, corporate crisis, tax, banking&finance, litigation and arbitration, labour law and labour relations, PNRR and public financing, cybersecurity and AI, antitrust/EU law, administrative and public economic law, and advocacy.

Equally important are the economic sectors in which the Grimaldi Alliance is structured to offer public and private, national and international clients a one-stop shop in all its locations: energy, public procurement and utilities, real estate, infrastructure and transport, pharmaceutical, digital, agriculture, distribution, media.

"In all these areas, we can assist clients from the development phase of their projects, as well as in their public or market financing, dealing with regulatory issues, managing acquisitions or divestments, quotations, as well as public and private litigation profiles, as well as employment and tax issues. We know how to support clients in the development phase as well as in the disinvestment or crisis phase. We have a flexible approach to managing professional fees, always very much linked to the usefulness of our professional support, comments managing partner Francesco Sciaudone.

These are the numbers of the new professional reality that Francesco Sciaudone has built in the last 3 years (6 offices opened in the last 18 months: Naples, Turin, Treviso, Padua, Verona, Paris, with about 150 new professionals), developing the activity of Grimaldi Law Firm:

about 500 professionals: a unique mix of skills, for a real one-stop shop, with about 300 lawyers, about 100 tax and advisors (corporate finance, real estate, public finance); 14 offices: a unique national coverage (9 offices in Italy - Milan, Rome, Turin, Treviso, Padua, Verona, Parma, Naples, Bari - and 5 abroad, Brussels, London, Paris, New York, Lugano). Grimaldi Alliance in particular has started 2023 with the opening of a new office in Paris (where it will be present with 5 new French colleagues). Other openings in Italy (e.g. Bologna, Catania, Trieste) and abroad are planned over the course of the year, with new partnerships soon to be defined all over the world; more than 50 in countries: we are present worldwide with as many local partners (Grimaldi Alliance is present in the following countries: Albania, Saudi Arabia, Argentina, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Colombia, Croatia, China, Cyprus, Egypt, El Salvador, United Arab Emirates, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Iraq, Italy, Luxembourg, Malaysia, North Macedonia, Malta, Montenegro, Oman, Panama, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, South Africa, Tunisia, Turkey, Hungary, Uruguay and the USA); 2000 professionals worldwide: not counting the more than 12000 professionals of Yingke, which with its 103 offices in the world is a leader in Asia Pacific and has concluded a strategic cooperation agreement with the Grimaldi Alliance to collaborate worldwide.

Since January Grimaldi Alliance is also present in 3 new countries: Bolivia, Costa Rica, Ecuador.

The new year also sees the start of the Grimaldi Alliance Internship Programme, whereby the aim is to recruit one new professional per month, for each location, with the aim of recruiting at least 100 new professionals by 2023.

But the year also starts with a lot of news! The growth continues with the arrival of three new partners: Claudio Piacentini in Turin, Francesco Conti in Milan and Rosaria Arancio in Rome.

Claudio Piacentini and his team have a great deal of experience in public and private contract law, assisting and representing companies and administrations before administrative and ordinary courts, both in the award phase and in the execution phase of public contracts. They also have experience in public-private partnerships and in liability proceedings before the Court of Auditors.

Francesco Conti, who joins with a team of 4 associates, focuses on real estate and privacy. Francesco has been advising for more than ten years private national companies, including regulated ones, and multinationals in relevant investment transactions in real estate assets for retail (with particular regard to shopping centres, business parks and outlets), hotel and leisure, student, industrial and logistics purposes. For private companies and institutional investors Francesco also advises on privacy and ESG issues and acts as DPO.

Rosaria Arancio and her team will coordinate the energy practice, which she has always followed, as she is now one of the most respected professionals in the sector with extensive experience with national and international clients.

In line with the professional growth policy started last year, internal growth also continues: Donatella de Lieto Vollaro, who has always dealt with financial law in relation to capital market transactions, mainly equity, becomes an equity partner; Cristiano Chiofalo, with a consolidated experience in administrative law, becomes an income partner; Angelo Alfonso Speranza - one of the most active and experienced young professionals in banking and finance - becomes an income partner. With them Simona Cornaglia, Francesca Romana Ferro, Giulia Lovaste, Fabrizia Pellone and Giada Salvini will be the new counsels of Grimaldi Alliance.

The presence of the Grimaldi Alliance in the field of public financing, the PNRR and the new EU programming, in support of the growth of the country's production system and in support of the Public Administration's infrastructural interventions, has been further strengthened with the arrival of outstanding professionals who will join the PNRR team coordinated by Prof. Bernardo Giorgio Mattarella. Bernardo Giorgio Mattarella: senior advisor Lina D'Amato, based in Rome, a great expert in public finance with significant experience in industrial policy and access to public funding; senior advisor Riccardo Fontanelli, based in Rome, a great expert in technology and innovation in the field of start-ups and SMEs; senior advisor Andrea Caraffini, based in Parma and Milan, with significant experience in development contracts and access to public grants.

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The Grimaldi Alliance (GA) has achieved gender equality certification: an important milestone for GA, which demonstrates the firm's focus on gender parity in the professional services sector.

The certification was achieved in accordance with UNI 125:2022 practice, which defines the guidelines for a gender equality management system, and represents a significant recognition of the firm's proactive approach and relentless work to promote a work environment that is fair and respectful of gender diversity: culture and strategy; governance; human resources processes; opportunities for growth and inclusion of women in the company; gender pay equity; parental protection and work-life balance. The certification was obtained with the support of a team coordinated by Daniela Fioretti, partner and member of the Strategic Advisory Board.

Francesco Sciaudone, managing partner of Ga commented: "This certification reflects the work and commitment of our team in creating an inclusive and respectful environment, where gender differences are valued and celebrated. Grimaldi Alliance,' Sciaudone pointed out, 'has not only put inclusion at the heart of its growth strategy, it has also interpreted diversity as eliminating any difference in treatment, as wanting to make a difference, and as being different, in a professional services market that is too preoccupied with technology and too little with the human factor, which remains central for us. Ga is determined to maintain this commitment by continuing to develop initiatives aimed at Diversity and Sustainability, not only within the firm but also in the active support of its clients. In fact, Ga has set up a multidisciplinary team - with partners Maddalena Boffoli, Vincenzo Maurizio Dispinzeri, and Francesco Conti - in order to assist companies in their certification processes and, more generally, in adapting their governance to the principles of sustainability and management of ESG factors'.

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Lawyer Paola Rubini joins the Grimaldi Alliance as senior advisor in the firm's Padua office.

"We are proud to welcome Paola Rubini to the Grimaldi Alliance team," commented Francesco Sciaudone, managing partner of the Grimaldi Alliance. "Her remarkable experience and professionalism will be a further reason for us to grow and develop. His skills will be integrated into our multi-service system to be even closer to the needs of our clients".

The profile

With more than 30 years' experience in the Ghedini Longo law firm, alongside lawyers Piero Longo and Niccolò Ghedini, Ms Rubini has a rich curriculum vitae in the field of criminal law and procedure. She was a member of the Legislative Bureau of the Union of Italian Criminal Chambers, as well as of several ministerial commissions with Justice Ministers Diliberto and Cartabia. Most recently, with Minister Nordio, she was also appointed to the commission working on the drafting of a legislative proposal to reform the penal process.

She was also vice-president of the Criminal Chamber of Padua and is currently in charge of the Territorial School for the Padua Court District. She is still the director of the UCPI National School of Higher Education for Criminal Lawyers based in Rome and UCPI's representative at the National Forensic Council in the area of forensic specialisation.

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Grimaldi Alliance announces an important new development in Belgium with the new opening of the Belgian office and the arrival and appointment of Daniel Fesler as Managing Partner of the Brussels office.

The beautiful new office, located in the heart of the European institutions, with a truly international team, will now also be active on the Belgian law front, strengthening the already established European law and advocacy activities.

Daniel Fesler, a distinguished Belgian lawyer with almost 30 years of experience, has recently completed an important professional experience at Baker McKenzie lasting more than 22 years as a partner, including 6 years as Belgian managing partner. He has extensive experience in dispute resolution, including arbitration, commercial and information technology (IT/C) law. He specialises in litigation, with a focus on technology and compliance/economic crime issues. He also deals with litigation in the field of public and administrative law.

In terms of his advisory work, Fesler deals with complex contractual and regulatory issues and has developed specific expertise in electronic communication, media, smart mobility, intelligent transport systems, connected car and associated services, including from the perspective of EU law.

"We are indeed very pleased to announce Daniel's joining the Grimaldi Alliance," says Francesco Sciaudone, Managing Partner of the Grimaldi Alliance, "with the strengthening of the Belgian law practice and the important experience Daniel has gained over the years we will undoubtedly consolidate our presence in the European and international market, where we are now present in over 60 jurisdictions."

Daniel "I am thrilled to join the Grimaldi Alliance and contribute to its development in Belgium and internationally, so that all its member firms can follow their clients in the most efficient way possible, and really support them. With the team on site in Brussels and with all our colleagues around the world, we work hard to achieve our common goals in 'finding solutions to the most complex and specific needs, while guaranteeing the highest level of service'.

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