Macchi di Cellere Gangemi > Firm Profile

The firm: Macchi di Cellere Gangemi is an international professional association founded in 1986 with over 100 highly qualified professionals. The firm assists companies in relation to all matters under Italian, European Community and international law. In just over twenty years, Macchi di Cellere Gangemi has become a qualified partner of leading Italian companies and multinational groups. The firm has extensive experience in all areas of law, with global services incorporating different areas of expertise and a strong commitment in the corporate, tax and finance areas. In recent years, the firm has specialised in new areas of law, such as project finance, environmental and energy law.

Areas of practice
Energy and natural resources (administrative law): the activity of the firm includes both the administrative procedures for obtaining permits and authorisations and contracts on related activities.

Renewable sources: the firm has been active for years in the development of projects that use renewable sources, particularly photovoltaic plants and solar thermal plants, biomass and biogas plants and wind farms.

Regulatory: the firm’s lawyers provide consultancy services to regulated subjects that are active in different fields within the energy market (gas and electric power ), through advisory activities, drafting of compliance manuals and self-regulation protocols.

Energy-administrative litigation: the firm’s attorneys offer assistance in any field of administrative law thanks to their extensive knowledge of procedures for the release of authorisations by local authorities for the production of wind, photovoltaic, solar thermal, biomass, biogas and biofuel energy.

Tax litigation: the firm has been involved in many important and contentious procedures for domestic and foreign clients before tax courts of all types and levels, including the Court of Cassation and the European Court of Justice.

Taxation of financial instruments and funding: the firm provides advice in relation to the tax implications of innovative financial products.

Taxation of private equity and real estate funds: the firm provides highly qualified tax advice in relation to the tax aspects concerning the establishment of private equity and real estate investment funds and the tax treatment of foreign and Italian investors.

Transfer pricing: in relation to the matter of transfer pricing, the firm has developed specific expertise in preparing the documentation of the prices charged in intercompany relationships.

VAT and indirect taxes: the firm specialises in providing advice on VAT, the identification of the correct tax treatment of intra-community and international operations.

Litigation, dispute resolution: the litigation department has considerable experience in all areas of commercial law.

Strategic litigation analysis: the attorneys provide legal opinions in relation to potential liability, preliminary verification of the risk of litigation and preventive strategy.

Litigation: the attorneys represent foreign and Italian clients in financial, corporate, commercial, real estate, employment, environmental and administrative proceedings, national and international tax litigation and bankruptcy proceedings and directors liability.

Defence before the high courts: Macchi di Cellere Gangemi represents clients in every phase of litigation, including the high courts, such as the Court of Cassation, the Constitutional Court and the European Court of Justice.

Recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments: department professionals have significant experience in Italy in the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments under national law, European regulations and bilateral and multilateral conventions.

Arbitration and alternative dispute resolution: Macchi di Cellere Gangemi has considerable experience in domestic and international arbitration and alternative dispute resolution.