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Studio Legale Corte
Corso Magenta 56
Milano
20121
Italy

Italy > Industry focus: Food Tier 1

Studio Legale Corte is a boutique firm in food law that offers impressive knowledge of the food industry, including the production, packaging and marketing of food products. It is well known for its specialism in criminal law - it assists clients in both civil and criminal cases including regulatory breaches. It also assists clients with due diligence work in relation to M&A transactions. The practice is led by the 'exceptional' Paola Corte, whose expertise spans all technical and legal aspects of food and beverage composition, labelling and advertising. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of the European Food Law Association. Co-head Elena Corte has particular expertise in criminal matters concerning fraud, counterfeiting and non-genuine or contaminated food sales.  

Practice head(s):

Paola Corte; Elena Corte

Testimonials

‘Extremely efficient and reliable.’

‘Paola Corte is very good and knowledgeable in food law. She is my preferred contact in Italy.’

‘Best market knowledge, great lawyers, always top up to date.’

‘Paola Corte is exceptional.’

‘High expertise and reliability in their area of competence. Unusually responsive and definitely very reliable.’

‘Superb expertise in association with total flexibility and the capability to see beyond the pure legal matter.’

‘Excellent knowledge of EU and Italian food law, solution oriented advice.’

Work highlights

  • Advised multiple produces, large scale retailers and mass caterers on the development of new products, food production processes, food composition and labelling issues, and revised their HACCP manuals.
  • Assisted multiple large-scale retailers and producers in numerous criminal proceedings due to sampling of food products which resulted to have parasites, harmful bacteria, or plant protection products exceeding allowed limits.
  • Provided strategic legal advice on matters related to sustainability, in light of imminent legislation changes, to aid clients direct investments tactically when sourcing ingredients, developing new products, reformulating existing products, and pursuing certifications, for future positioning and marketing purposes.

Studio Legale Corte is an Italian boutique law firm specialized in food law and related matters. Founded in 1921, the firm has been dealing with food legislation for over 100 years and the partners are all extremely experienced lawyers in this field.

Studio Legale Corte assists food producers, importers, large-scale retailers, mass caterers, and trade associations in the food sector. The legal advice is carried out at EU level, and the defensive activity throughout the national territory.

Studio Legale Corte has its own network of experts in the various sectors related to food law (food chemistry, microbiology, commodities, etc), who collaborate with the firm on a regular basis in preparing clients’ defence.

Department Name Email Telephone
Paola Corte paola.corte@studiolegalecorte.it +393482247914
Elena Corte elena.corte@studiolegalecorte.it +393482247913
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