Bertacco Recla & Partners

Managing Partners: Paolo Bertacco, Jacopo Recla

Total Number of Partners: 7 

Total Number of Lawyers: 20

Languages: Italian, English, French, Bulgarian 

Firm Overview: 

Bertacco Recla & Partners has a particular specialisation in administrative law with a focus on public procurement and real estate. The solid expertise in the real estate sector and a sound competence in town planning procedures and in private procurement contracts makes Bertacco Recla & Partners leaders in the Italian market, also in managing processes for enhancing and developing urban areas and real estate complexes and in assisting clients on a wide range of sophisticated real estate transactions.

With proven experience in the Italian public procurement market, the firm helps international companies to understand and “unravel” the high complexity of tender procedures and assist them in all the activities required to participate in public tenders. The firm also provides legal advice in all matters of corporate and commercial law, in particular in the energy sector, providing support both in the most complex corporate transactions and during ordinary business activities.

Clients are supported in all civil and administrative litigation before judicial authorities throughout Italy, as well as in arbitration. By leveraging on the integration of its administrative and civil law long-term expertise, the firm assists its clients in a unique and unitary way, becoming the point of reference for every aspect of their business.

Main Areas of Practice: 

Public Procurement: The firm provides ongoing and strategic advice to leading companies in public works, services and supply sector (particularly in the healthcare industry), assisting them during all stages of the tendering process and in the execution of public contracts. The firm supports its clients identifying the most efficient legal and technical solutions in order to compete and win public procurements, also assisting them judicially before Regional Administrative Courts (“TAR”) and the Council of State to fully protect their interests.

Contact: Jacopo Recla, Gabriella Rondoni

Email: [email protected], [email protected]

Public Works: The firm provides a full range of assistance to private companies that carry out public works as part of real estate development transactions through tenders which are subject to the Code of Public Contracts. The team takes on the role of a true “tender office”, managing all activities autonomously, from drafting of all tender documents including the contract, to the assessment of all formal requirements, assistance during tender meetings, execution of the contract, construction and testing of the works.

Contact: Gabriella Rondoni, Jacopo Recla, Paolo Bertacco

Email: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]

Building and Urban Planning: The firm assists its clients from the earliest stage of the project, by planning its strategic aspects, in order to ensure a complete and coordinated management of all the urban planning, building and authorisation procedures required for a successful investment. Starting from the complex program agreement, through the implementation of various planning instruments, up to achieving each individual building permit and specific administrative authorisation, the firm’s lawyers assist clients by advising them on the action to be taken and providing confidence in the relationship with the public authorities.

Contact: Paolo Bertacco, Francesco Rovetta

Email: [email protected], [email protected]

Construction: As part of its consulting activity on real estate developments, Bertacco Recla & Partners provides legal assistance in corporate contracts, with particular focus on private procurement contracts for works, services and supplies, providing clients with fully tailor-made solutions. In particular, the firm assists leading construction businesses, investment funds and real estate companies in drafting and negotiating procurement contracts for real estate development projects and the related services also in relation to technical complex issues.

Contact: Gabriella Rondoni, Paolo Bertacco, Maria Grazia Buonanno

Email: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]

Real Estate: Bertacco Recla & Partners assists its clients on all asset class transactions and all types of real estate transactions: from development to acquisition/disposition to redevelopment and ordinary management of properties. The firm’s clients are leading national and international investors and asset managers operating in the Italian real estate market. Thanks to in-depth knowledge of the industry the firm’s lawyers are able to understand the commercial drivers underlying each real estate transaction.

Contact: Francesca Tresoldi, Paolo Bertacco

Email: [email protected], [email protected]

Corporate: The team monitors the legal aspects of day-to-day business activities as well as matters involving the most complex corporate transactions. The firm’s lawyers draft and negotiate contracts for the purchase and sale of equity interests, investment contracts, shareholders’ agreements, bylaws and commercial contracts in general. The firm supports entrepreneurs at every stage of the company’s life, both in the course of ordinary operations and in the most sensitive and critical moments of extraordinary transactions.

Contact: Carlo Periti

Email: [email protected]

Litigation: Bertacco Recla & Partners assists its clients in all administrative, civil, commercial, corporate and real estate disputes in both ordinary and arbitration proceedings. With regard to administrative law, based on a long-term experience in handling dozens of claims for our clients in all the Regional Administrative Courts of Italy, our team has the ability to deal with multiple cases at the same time, thus ensuring a consistent defence strategy to the client.

Contact: Jacopo Recla, Carlo Periti

Email: [email protected], [email protected]

Energy: The firm supports clients in the fields of renewable energy (with a particular focus on photovoltaic energy, hydropower energy saving, etc.) on M&A and private equity transactions, administrative law (permits) and litigation.

Contact: Jacopo Recla, Carlo Periti

Email: [email protected], [email protected]