Mondini Bonora Ginevra Studio Legale

Office: MILANO, CORSO DI PORTA VITTORIA 5

Tel: +39 02 777351

Managing Partners: Paolo Flavio Mondini, Claudio Bonora, Carlo Ginevra

Partners: Giorgio Mondini, Fabio Ghiretti, Silvia Mondini Vitiello, Luca Tiberi, Giorgio Rusconi, Chiara Teresa Bonora, Aldo Feliciani, Daniele Giombini.

Number of partners: 11

Number of lawyers: 18

Languages: English, French, German, Italian,

Firm Overview:

Founded in 2021 by the professionals of the historic Milanese firms Mondini Rusconi (founded in 1969), Bonora e Associati (founded in 2000) and Rapisardi e Ginevra (active for more than 50 years), Mondini Bonora Ginevra represents a point of reference in the fields of industrial, commercial, banking and financial law.

The firm was created with the aim of providing qualified and highly specialised legal services on an independent basis, with a focus on a personal, trusting, and long-term relationship with clients and a practical and proactive approach.

Characterized by a strong international vocation, the firm maintains profitable relationships with national and foreign clients and with major international law firms; it is part of several networks

Main Areas of Practice:

Corporate & Business Practice:

Mondini Bonora Ginevra advises foreign and domestic clients on general corporate matters daily and represents them as General Counsel in all aspects of their corporate life, as well as in disputes concerning corporate issues (e.g., directors’ liability). The firm also has extensive practice in M&A (strategic alliances, JVs, spin-offs, and transfers of shares, assets and going concerns) and venture capital/private equity transactions. The firm provides advice in commercial transactions of all kinds for a wide range of industries, frequently with a cross-border perspective, particularly in the negotiation and drafting of agency, franchising and distribution agreements; technology and trademark licences; outsourcing arrangements; and international sale and supply agreements.

Banking, finance and insurance

Mondini Bonora Ginevra regularly advises our clients on all structured finance transactions and also assist them in all regulatory aspects related to activities such as real estate financing and investments, covered bonds and structured finance and derivatives.

Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment:

Mondini Bonora Ginevra provides counselling on all aspects of copyright, trademarks, industrial design, patents and domain names. Through its standing relationships with patent and trademark agents and lawyers worldwide the firm can assist clients in all registration matters competently and reliably on an international basis. The firm also advises on software and database protection and has extensive experience in negotiating and drafting trademark, IP and know-how licenses. Mondini Rusconi has acquired a strong reputation in the media and entertainment industry, assisting music, cinema, home video and publishing companies in litigation, anti-piracy programmes, and contract making.

IT, Internet & E-Commerce:

Mondini Bonora Ginevra has developed significant expertise in the fields of IT, telecommunications, new technologies and the internet, providing general advice on regulatory issues, consumer and data protection, content liability, IP and other e-commerce-related matters, and assistance in contract-making and litigation (particularly in the fight against online and video game piracy).

Advertising & Marketing:

Mondini Bonora Ginevra advises agencies, manufacturers and service providers on advertising laws and regulations, preliminarily reviewing campaigns/commercials to verify compliance with advertising and competition laws, and assisting clients before relevant authorities (SRO).

Real Estate:

Mondini Bonora Ginevra provides assistance in negotiating and drafting agreements for the sale and purchase, development, operation, leasing and financing of commercial and industrial real estate, including hotels and resorts, shopping centres and cinemas.

Competition & Antitrust:

Mondini Bonora Ginevra offers counselling and assistance on antitrust aspects in: M&A transactions; proceedings before national and EU antitrust authorities and advertising supervisory bodies; unfair competition; protection of industrial secrets; and non-competition agreements.

Labour & Social Security Matters:

The firm offers full legal assistance in labour and social security matters, including: redundancy procedures; employer’s liability; employment contracts; stock option plans; pensions; agency and brokerage agreements; and service contracts in general. Litigation & Arbitration: Mondini Bonora Ginevra has large and consolidated experience in defence and assistance before Italian and EU jurisdictions, as well as in arbitration proceedings (either as arbitrator or as Counsel) in Italy and abroad, including the enforcement of rulings and arbitral awards. Mondini Rusconi also assists its clients in defence before criminal courts in intellectual property matters, and counsels on alternative techniques of dispute resolution.

Food and Beverage:

Mondini Bonora Ginevra developed outstanding expertise in assisting food businesses with Italian and EU food law on all aspects of the food-processing industry, ‘from the farm to the fork’, from animal feed to food for human consumption as well as dietary supplements, functional food and novel food providing legal assistance and consultancy also to food businesses operating worldwide through a network of food lawyers spread in about 50 jurisdictions.

Energy:

Mondini Bonora Ginevra provides legal counselling in the field of energy in most of its forms (electric power, natural gas, oil and renewable energy sources), assisting businesses in entering the Italian energy market, and corporate clients operating in the oil processing and distribution industry; drafting contracts for gas and electricity supply; and assisting clients on competition matters, dispute resolution and regulatory issues.

Criminal Corporate:

Mondini Bonora Ginevra provides specialised consultancy and assistance to individuals and corporations in connection with criminal offenses against property and the public administration, industrial accidents and safety at work, corporate and bankruptcy crimes, IP and tax crimes, so-called “231” administrative crimes under Italian legislation and environmental crimes and breach of building laws and regulations. International Work: All lawyers speak several languages and are particularly comfortable in assisting clients and conducting business in English. Mondini Rusconi maintains active collaborative relationships with several major US, European and Asian law firms, and is a member of various international associations.

Clients:

Mondini Bonora Ginevra assists domestic and international clients, some of whom have been with the firm for nearly 40 years, also in cross-border operations. To name but a few: a leading US entertainment and telecommunications multinational; a large European life insurer; a major sports footwear and apparel company; two of Italy’s largest publishing companies; a major fuel and energy multinational; an international video and cable company; a leading international recording company; a major cement group; several leading multinational food producers and distributors.