Silvia Cossu

Practice Areas

She is a qualified lawyer also admitted to the Italian High Courts Bar.

She leads the litigation team of the firm and manages the team working on commercial, business, corporate and civil law of the Firm. Actually she is an experienced litigation lawyer, member of the Italian Bar (Rome) fluent in English, Spanish, French and Italian (with also a basic Portuguese and Arabic), having studied in Spain, France, USA and Italy.

In approximately 17 years of practice, she has had the opportunity to represent clients in numerous disputes relating commercial matters, post M&A, corporate and competition matters, in the meantime acquiring extensive experience in insurance and financial litigation.

Moreover, she has an extensive experience in litigation relating to several kind of matters involving foreign States, national banks or public entities having interest in Italy and/or EEUU. . She actually had the chance to represent clients in number of disputes concerning business related matters.

In general, she represented clients in disputes, including urgent and interim measures proceedings, concerning international sale of goods and services, e-commerce and consumer law (she recently assisted one of the top three European web operators, working in the travel sector, in a litigation commenced by a big consumers’ association, for unfair commercial practices related to charges for the use of electronic way of payment), distribution and supply agreements (for example she assists, on regularly basis, a company working in the mass-printing sector).

Moreover, she gained an extensive expertise in insurance and finance litigations.

Silvia expertise is not only in trial, but also in the extra-judicial phase: actually she is often requested to use her litigator sensibility to assess risks and suggest solution to mitigate them, whether from breach of contract, professional negligence, business interruption events, or failure to comply with supply obligations. Moreover, she is often requested to review contracts (spa, supply, etc.) which are not anymore profitable for her clients, being requested, in such cases, to assess actual risks of a breach and to help the client in finding out the "cheaper" exit-strategy.

Career

In 2005 she started working as a trainee consultant at the Italian Ministry of foreign affairs in the treaties and international litigation office;

In 2006 she decided to move into the private practice choosing Allen&Overy LLP litigation and arbitration department.

In January 2008 Silvia joined Legance Avvocati Associati, a start up law firm in Italy that she left in June 2022, where she was a counsel of the litigation department.

In July 2022 she joined Lipani Caricala & Partners as Equity partner head of the Litigation team.

Professional Memberships

Italian BAR

High Courts BAR

IBA

Personal

Silvia is a strategic decision maker, risk mitigant and problem solver thanks to her legal acumen and business orientation. She is highly organized and able to execute on multiple work streams concurrently, also thanks to her strong executive-level communication skills. With more than 10 years of proven team building and leadership experience, she is effective under pressure, enthusiastic and self-motivated team player, with a strong interest in learning and creating efficient processes. Silvia is, at the same time, an excellent specialized lawyer with an open-minded and versatile approach, that allows her to work with all the other colleagues and the staff and to create excellent professional and human relationships. The mixture between her high level of knowledge of legal issues and a concrete and business oriented approach, is one of her main characteristic which together with her enthusiastic, available and optimistic way, allow her to be generally appreciated by client and colleagues.