Grimaldi Alliance continues its growth in the USA and New York with the addition of Melchionna PLLC, founded by Luca Melchionna, who has over twenty-five years of experience, brings a highly experienced multidisciplinary team with a focus on corporate legal advisory, cross-border transaction, corporate governance, and international tax matters.

This expansion is part of Grimaldi Alliance's strategy to strengthen its presence in the United States, assisting key clients closely and supporting them in their growth and internationalization efforts.

Luca Melchionna is a highly respected professional in the legal market, specializing in transactional law with a focus on compliance, M&A, and tax law. For many years, he has assisted multinational corporations and institutional investors in corporate, commercial, and tax matters. His team has solid expertise in supporting buyers and investors in establishing and acquiring companies in the U.S., managing local assets efficiently, and handling international commercial transactions.

"I have known and appreciated Luca Melchionna for years. He is a reference figure for many stakeholders in the New York legal market, and his firm represents excellence in quality. We are proud to welcome him as a partner in Grimaldi Alliance, strengthening our presence in New York. This step is another key part of our growth strategy in the United States, a crucial market for our international clients," said Francesco Sciaudone, Managing Partner of Grimaldi Alliance.

Grimaldi Alliance, an international law firm with 11 offices in Italy, as well as branches in New York, Lugano, Brussels, London, and Paris, and an international network active in over 60 jurisdictions, announces the addition of ILCT, a prestigious Thai law firm with over 100 professionals, based in Bangkok.

Founded in 1966, ILCT is one of the most authoritative brands in the Thai market, offering a full-service practice that spans a wide range of areas: banking & finance, competition and antitrust, advanced negotiations, corporate, entertainment, expatriate services, fintech, food & drug, foreign affairs, public procurement, information technology, infrastructure and project financing, insurance, intellectual property, labor law, litigation and arbitration, healthcare law, M&A, mining law, real estate, and tax.

With 10 partners, led by Managing Partner Jayavadh Bunnag, the 100 professionals at ILCT provide significant professional and linguistic coverage (in Thai, English, Chinese, Japanese, French, Italian, and Spanish), which is highly valuable for Grimaldi Alliance.

"The addition of ILCT to Grimaldi Alliance is a key milestone in our expansion strategy in Asian markets," said Francesco Sciaudone, Managing Partner of Grimaldi Alliance. "Grimaldi Alliance confirms itself as a strategic bridge for entrepreneurs looking to expand their business abroad. Our collaboration with ILCT allows us to further enhance our ability to support companies in the vast Asian market, offering them tailored legal assistance based on a deep understanding of the local context."

The partnership with ILCT strengthens Grimaldi Alliance’s position as a global leader in providing legal support for the internationalization of businesses, offering personalized solutions that facilitate the growth and expansion of companies in the world’s most dynamic markets.

Maddalena Boffoli is LAWYER OF THE YEAR for Public Employment SectorOur partner Maddalena Boffoli has won the award of Lawyer of the Year - Public Employment Sector at Legalcommunity Labour Awards.She won this award for developing a remarkable expertise in advising the public sector, with entities, public administrations and public companies followed in all legal matters.Maddalena chose to extend this success to her entire team, taking them with her on stage: a demonstration of how every success in Grimaldi Alliance, is always seen as the achievement, gained by teamwork.

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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