Belvedere & Partners

Administrative Law / Real Estate

Partner

Riccardo Marletta is a Partner at BLV – Belvedere & Partners. He advises leading real estate companies, investment funds, municipal and regional authorities, healthcare authorities, state-owned entities and other public and private clients on administrative law and real estate matters, both in contentious and non-contentious proceedings.

His administrative law practice focuses in particular on land use and territorial governance, public procurement, and emerging real estate asset classes — notably logistics and data centres. He also advises on real estate contracts, primarily in the context of land transformation transactions.

He has appeared before the Chamber of Deputies' Commission VIII on several occasions, representing Compagnia delle Opere in parliamentary hearings on public procurement reform and urban regeneration legislation.

He trained at the chambers of Professor Valerio Onida, Emeritus President of the Italian Constitutional Court, where he subsequently practised as a lawyer until Professor Onida's appointment as a Constitutional Court Justice.

He is a regular contributor to specialist publications and a frequent speaker at conferences, courses and seminars on administrative and real estate law, including in academic settings.

Selected awards:

Winner, TopLegal Awards 2025 – Law Firm of the Year, Retail Corporate & Real Estate Winner, Legalcommunity Real Estate Awards 2024 – Law Firm of the Year, Town Planning Winner, Legalcommunity Real Estate Awards 2022 – Law Firm of the Year, Town Planning Winner, Legalcommunity Real Estate Awards 2021 – Law Firm of the Year, Town Planning Winner, Legalcommunity Litigation Awards 2021 – Law Firm of the Year, Administrative Law (Construction/Planning/Environment) Selected, MF Italian Legal and Tax Excellence 2024 & 2025 – Public Law

English, Italian

Milan Bar Association (Ordine degli Avvocati di Milano) – Member (qualified November 1993, Court of Appeal of Milan) Register of Lawyers admitted to the Court of Cassation and other Superior Jurisdictions – Member (since April 2006) LAF – Libera Associazione Forense Mario Brusa – Co-Founder and Member of the Board of Directors (since 1997); President (2013–2021) Confindustria Assoimmobiliare, Logistics Working Group (Tavolo Logistica) – Member; contributes to the drafting of legislative proposals on matters of interest to the association Council of the Milan Bar Association – Former Member, Administrative Law Commission and Environmental Law Commission

Law degree (Laurea in Giurisprudenza), summa cum laude, University of Milan, July 1990. Thesis: "Conflicts of jurisdiction arising from supervisory activity over the Regions".

Practical legal training at the chambers of Professor Valerio Onida, Emeritus President of the Italian Constitutional Court.