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The employer has complex obligations to protect the workers’ health and safety, otherwise being punishable under criminal law.

The firm offers assistance to employers and companies in the event of criminal proceedings, with the collaboration of technical advisors of recognised experience.

In a preventive perspective, the firm supports its clients in the management of criminal risk before the ‘pathology’ of the criminal process, proposing preventive actions – on every profile of health and safety – built on the specific needs of each client.

In this context, for example, the firm supports the internal functions in drawing up the proxies’ structure, which guarantees a correct distribution of tasks between and, above all, the compliance with the requirement of the effectiveness of the proxy, which is necessary for its validity in criminal proceedings.

The numerous obligations that the Italian legal system places on companies in the environmental field are also covered by criminal law, with the provision of various types of crime, sanctioned with prison sentences,  for facts as gas emissions, liquid spills, and waste storage.

In this perspective, we support our clients in the management of criminal risk in its various forms, before it reaches the ‘pathology’ of criminal proceedings. We therefore support the company, also in complex industrial realities, in the management of all issues of potential criminal impact relating to environmental protection, with the aim of identifying preventive remedies tailored to the client’s specific needs.

The firm’s professionals also have recognised experience in handling complex legal cases involving international chemical companies, environmental disasters and toxic exposures.

Among the risks associated with business activity is certainly the risk in tax matters.

In a system such as the Italian one, characterised by extraordinary complexity, the management of tax compliance, even when oriented towards perfect compliance with regulations, can always generate criminal liability.

An example of such a risk, which is a current topic, concerns the management of the chain of suppliers and subcontractors in large-scale distribution and logistics companies. This may give rise to the adoption of precautionary and preventive measures during preliminary investigation, which can be particularly damaging to the company assets and management.

The firm supports numerous Italian and multinational companies in this field, offering both preventive advice, aimed at assessing the existence of criminal risk and preventing its effects, and assistance during criminal proceedings – to companies and their directors or managers – guaranteeing, in this instance, specialist support in all the various and multifaceted areas of tax law.

The firm’s professionals have significant experience in assisting doctors and other professionals involved in criminal proceedings brought for involuntary crimes related to their professional activities.

In this context, the firm provides all-round assistance to professionals, carrying out defence activities not only in criminal proceedings, but also before the disciplinary bodies of the professional orders, where, as is often the case, the criminal proceedings are accompanied by disciplinary proceedings.

The spread and use of social networks, whether by private individuals or so-called creators, has exponentially increased the number of criminal proceedings initiated with the hypothesis of aggravated defamation, on which the Public Prosecutors’ Offices have long turned a spotlight.

The firm offers assistance both to alleged perpetrators and to possible victims, whether they are private individuals or individuals who use social media professionally, adopting a customised approach to the needs of each client, in order to identify the solution – in or out of court – most suitable for a satisfactory settlement of the dispute.

Criminal law also covers the broad area of industrial and intellectual property law in Italy, punishing violations of, for example, trademarks and patents.

The matter has relevance in the event of commercial disputes between companies, requiring the criminal lawyer to adopt an interdisciplinary approach, collaborating with patent experts and lawyers with expertise in industrial and intellectual property law.

The firm has considerable experience in assisting companies and individuals in this field, in which it has achieved significant success, thanks to a synergic approach with different professionals.

In a world where information technology permeates every aspect of daily life, the commission of cybercrimes has increased exponentially: the forms of aggression against the assets and data of individuals and companies take place with ever evolving technical methods that are difficult to prevent and increasingly frequent.

The firm has significant experience in assisting companies and individuals in this area, especially when they are victims of such offences, guaranteeing the timely preparation of lawsuits and reports, as well as providing, in cooperation with the clients, all the assistance and support necessary to the Authorities for the not always easy identification of the offenders.

With specific reference to assistance to Companies, the Firm has always adopted an integrated approach, in collaboration with the competent internal functions, in order to allow for the best management of the matter, with reference to relations with clients, third parties and the Regulating Authorities.

The firm provides legal assistance and representation in extradition proceedings, European Arrest Warrants, and in the areas of international judicial cooperation in criminal matters.

The law firm deals with the assistance of both the extraditee, often acting in coordination with lawyers in the extraditee’s home country, and the private parties, typically victims of the crimes underlying the extradition request, interested in the successful outcome of the request.