Fabio Cagnola

Practice Areas

Bank and financial crimes

Bankruptcy crimes

Bribery crimes

Corporate crimes

Corporate liability under Legislative Decree 231/01

Environmental crimes

Health and safety crimes

Tax crimes

Internal Investigations

Cross-border Investigations and International Judicial Assistance

Whistleblowing and Data Protection

Career

Fabio Cagnola has been practicing for more than 35 years in the field of white- collars crimes: after being partner of a major criminal law firm in Milan, in 2016 he founded the Cagnola & Associati Law Firm.

In the course of these years, he has provided legal assistance to many major multi-national companies throughout the Italian territory and he has been acting in the most prominent criminal cases in the white- collar crimes area, also cooperating with foreign legal firms to provide assistance in criminal defense cases before the Italian Judicial Authorities.

He represents both individuals and corporations (with particular reference to the corporate criminal liability under Legislative Decree 231/2001), in criminal trials before Italian Courts.

Professional Memberships

American Bar Association

OECD/IBA Task Forces on Panama Papers issue

IBA Whistleblowing Protection Working Group

Officer IBA Business Crime Committee 2009/2010

Vice Chair IBA Business Crime Committee 2011/2012

Senior Vice Chair IBA Business Crime Committee 2013/2014

Co-Chair IBA Business Crime Committee 2015/2016

Committee Liaison Officer IBA Non-trial Resolutions of Bribery Cases 2017/2018

European Regional Representative Officer IBA Anti-Corruption Committee 2021/2022

Webinar Officer IBA Anti-Corruption Committee 2021/2022

Publications

Fabio Cagnola is author of Tax Offense Reform (2015) and Professional Manual of Criminal Tax Law (2021), where he seeks to merge the perspective of tax lawyers with the one of criminal lawyers, for a complete and innovative approach to tax crimes.

For the 25th anniversary of the Italian Center for Criminal Tax Law, he published the chapter Money Laundering and Self- laundering from Tax Crimes in the book Writings in Honor of Ivo Carracciolo (2021).

Personal

For years, Fabio Cagnola, as well as in Chambers', has been featured in Who's Who Legal Rankings; receiving several prestigious recognitions along with his team.

Forbes magazine included him in their list of the top 100 Legal Professionals, from 2021 to 2023, and Il Sole 24 Ore listed him in the 50 best Legal Professionals in Italy.