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Adriano Villa

+39 02 85581 adriano.villa@pavia-ansaldo.com

Work Department

Corporate and Commercial Mergers and Acquisitions, Private Equity, Dispute Resolution

Position

Partner

Adriano Villa is country partner for Japan and heads the firm’s Japan Desk in Milan and the firm’s office in Tokyo, which he frequently visits during the year. He regularly represents large and medium-sized Japanese enterprises with operations in Italy or doing business with Italian companies as well as large Italian companies and SMEs with operations in Japan or doing business with Japanese companies. He has extensive experience of acquisitions, mergers, joint ventures and start-ups, as well as commercial negotiations and drafting of a broad range of contract types (licence, agency, distribution, etc), arbitration and general legal and business consultancy.

Career

Adriano joined Pavia e Ansaldo in 1999

Admitted to the Bar, Milan (Italy), 1988

Adriano is to date the only Italian lawyer to have ever been admitted to practice in Japan as a foreign lawyer (“Gaikokuho-jimubengoshi”), in 1998.

In 1999 he was awarded the order as a Knight of the Italian Republic for Special Merits

Languages

Italian, Japanese, English

Memberships

Member of the International Bar Association (IBA) and of the Inter Pacific Bar Association.

Member of The Council for the United States and Italy (Young Leaders Conference), the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Italy.

Chairman of the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Japan from 1999 to 2002.

Chairman of Showa Musical Foundation (since 1994)

Education

Graduation in Law, University of Milan, 1982

Sophia University of Tokyo Researcher under grant from Japanese Ministry of Culture, 1989-1991

EU-Commission’s Executive Training Program In Japan, 1986-1987

Personal

Listing of foreign securities on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, Camera di Commercio Italiana in Giappone, 1990

Selecting and hiring Japanese personnel for Foreign Subsidiaries, Camera di Commercio Italian in Giappone, 1988

The Reform of Italian Private International Laws, in The Journal of the Japanese Institute of International Business Law, Japanese Institute of International Business Law Inc., , Tokyo, 1997

Il Giappone a portata di mano (aspetti legali), Etaslibri (Gruppo RCS), 1999

24 legal questions on Japanese E-commerce (co-autore), pubblicazione congiunta Camera di Commercio Italiana in Giappone e Ambasciata d’Italia a Tokyo, 2000

Il Giappone a portata di mano (aspetti legali), seconda edizione, Etaslibri, 2001