Acquisition International - Issue 9 2019 31 Aug19183 Ten Years of Excellence Studio Legale GTA is an Italian law firm which provides legal services to companies in Italy and to international companies with interests in Italy. Recently, the firm’s founder, Giovanni Tretti found success in AI’s Leading Adviser 2019 where he was selected as the Leading M&A and Corporate Compliance Lawyer of the Year, Italy. On the back of this win, we profiled the practice and caught up with Giovanni who kindly provided us with a glimpse into the innerworkings of the successful firm. stablished in 2007, Studio Legale GTA areas of expertise includes M&A and corporate law, compliance, commercial law and intellectual property law and real estate law to name but a few. Today, Studio Legale GTA assists several companies in numerous industrial sectors, with national or multinational organisations. Alongside this, the firm also provides assistance for the membership to Compliance Supervisory Boards and for the Data Protection positions. Working primarily with companies based in the North-East of Italy where they have two operating offices, Giovanni begins by going into further detail about Studio Legale GTA, informing us of the firm’s overall mission and how the practice ensures that they provide each client with an exceptional service. “Here at Studio Legale GTA, our mission is to serve the interests of our clients by providing them with an outstanding quality service and well- timed feedback to requests. As a result, we ensure that innovation is integrated into all aspects of our work due to us having a continuous structured professional updating, as well as an up to date information system and instruments. Additionally, we try to give our assistance to companies locally but with a global and international approach.” Having founded the company in 2007, Giovanni Tretti’s previous experience from the last 30 years includes holding the position as worldwide General Counsel at Benetton, including Benetton Sportsystem (Nordica, Rollerblade, Prince, Kastle, Asolo) and as a partner of one of the M&A magic circle Italian law firms. Supporting Giovanni in his mission of providing a high quality service to clients, is Studio Legale GTA’s other partners, Jacopo Cucchini and Susanna Greggio. Each of the partners are responsible for a specific Legal Team, in terms of Compliance, Data Protection and e-commerce, Litigation & Banking. In addition to this, there are also teams who are conducted by Senior Lawyers of the firm in terms of Labour Law, Restructuring and Turnaround and IP. When discussing the services the team provides, Giovanni is keen to highlight the approach the team takes to ensure that they not only fulfil the requests of their clients, but also exceed their expectations. “Since Studio Legale GTA’s inception, we have provided our clients with an award-winning combination of in-house corporate and top law firm experience, which results in us ensuring that we are able to deliver them a timely and high quality service.” Ultimately, the team at Studio Legale GTA will continue to provide their clients with an impeccable service, as well as further expanding both the firm and the services they provide in the years to come. E Brining the interview to a close, Giovanni signs off by revealing the exciting plans which lie in the pipeline for the firm, touching on their steps they are currently taking to ensure that they are able to fulfil their future goals. “Currently, we are working on expanding our areas of expertise in Studio Legale GTA by adding an expert team in corporate crime law, especially related to labour security law, environmental law and antitrust law to the firm. “Moving forward, we are consistently updating our knowledge, learning a lot from all the companies, which are our clients in terms of professional needs and requested expertise to ensure that we can continue improving our services.” Contact Partners: Giovanni Tretti, Jacopo Cucchini, Susanna Greggio Company: Studio Legale GTA HQ Address: Corso Palladio, 54, Vicenza, 36100, Italy Telephone: +39 044 454 7317 / +39 042 456 6112 Web Address: www.gtastudio.eu Contact Email:
[email protected] “...we try to give our assistance to companies locally but with a global and international approach.”