As regulators and financial authorities introduce new strategies to detect and prevent financial crime, criminals develop more sophisticated methods to evade legal scrutiny and commit offences. These include fraud, money laundering and the financing of terrorism.
Since financial crimes damage the performance of the national and international economy, it’s vital to have a trusted law firm you can rely on. With years of experience helping clients deal with white collar crimes, we can help you negotiate complex laws and regulations including the Consolidated Finance Act, the Italian Criminal Code and the special criminal laws.
Our experience can be your strongest point. We offer consultancy and assistance with regard to financial crimes such as tax crimes, bankruptcy, market rigging, false accounting, money laundering, fraudulent statements, undue use of credit cards and false corporate communications. Our aim is to help you get the best possible defense and assistance both in and out of court.
We can assist you also during criminal investigations and prosecutions covering every market-related issue, including insider trading and market manipulation. In addition, we routinely provide proactive advice in relation to both your ordinary and extraordinary operations to verify potential criminal risks - and can deploy our deep understanding of the legal and regulatory frameworks in case of violations reported by the Supervisory Authorities such as Consob and the Bank of Italy.
By way of example only:
- we provided assistance to an Insurance Company in relation to the possible criminal law implications related to the VAT taxability regime of claims management services in the context of risk reinsurance relationships in class 18 (“Assistance”) entered into by and between our Client and other insurers;
- we assisted a leading global investment and asset manager that develops and executes global real estate investments on behalf of the investors. In particular we provided advise with reference to the Anti-Financial Crime compliance processes and Italian Anti-money-laundering law and regulations;
- we assisted a leading global Company, that produces and markets consumer electronics items, in an internal investigation due to the alleged commission of financial crimes. We performed a formal investigation with the Company to determine whether there had been any violation of laws, regulations and internal organizational policies and we recommend corrective actions.
Our team has also been involved in numerous criminal proceedings pertaining to practically all areas of financial crimes. We have also gained much experience in compliance and internal investigations on behalf of Companies.
"The Team has been shortlisted as Law Firm of the year Financial Crime finalist"
2022