Europe is dMTV - de Masi Taddei Vasoli’s natural legal and cultural environment.

European Countries are both a top-technology, top-quality and top-brand manufacturing area, and an exceptional market. The European Union and its Member States are the richest market in the world, with very diverse cultural identities and legal norms and probably the most regulated area on earth. Doing business in Europe or between European Countries necessarily involve abiding by a vast array of very specific laws and regulations originated by national legislators, local regional governments and the European Union. EU Member States enjoy dramatic business and economic differences among them and dMTV is capable of serving its clients throughout Italy and Europe, thanks to its traditional domestic presence and its membership within Unilaw, a European law firms’ association, based in Lyon, France, that gathers law firms with the same values and vision from the major European jurisdictions, thus guaranteeing the same service for clients on a pan-European basis. Mrs Patricia de Masi Taddei, founder of dMTV, was amongst the founding partners of such alliance in 1991 and Mr Federico Vasoli is a member of Unilaw’s executive committee in 2009-2011.

The EU single market guarantees access to Member States’ markets to extra-EU companies that penetrate any of them with their financial, commercial or manufacturing presence. An EU-based company shared by extra-EU shareholders must obviously abide by EU and national laws and thus enjoys EU preferential policies, subsidies and rigorous legislation. Choosing the most suitable jurisdiction in Europe for a non-European company is a strategic decision that involves crucial legal, commercial, cultural, labour and tax elements: dMTV’s job includes advising on such issues and setting up the best tailor-made corporate structure, as well as assisting EU-based companies in their daily as well as extraordinary operations. dMTV’s lawyers have received training and qualifications in both Italy and other EU Member States and, also in co-operation with their allies, are capable of providing optimal practical solutions to both EU-based clients conducting operations within the single market, as well as extra-EU clients wishing to do business here. Mr Federico Vasoli, partner, also worked and studied in Brussels, London, Vienna and Strasbourg.

Areas of practice

dMTV’s areas of practice in European Countries and the European Union, also in co-operation with its partner firms are:

1. •International and domestic contracts;
   

2. •Company and commercial (incorporation, company structures, shareholders’ agreements, mergers and acquisitions, split-ups, business transfers);
   

3. •Bankruptcy, insolvency proceedings and debt restructuring;
   

4. •Automotive;
   

5. •Antitrust and competition;
   

6. •Insurance;
   

7. •Debt recovery;
   

8. •Intellectual property rights;
   

9. •Labour law;
   

10. •Tax;
    

11. •Dispute resolution.