Practice areas

Contracts are the core of business.

Every contract we draft is unique, addressing the specific client goals when it is written. We ensure that our contracts will protect our clients’ interests after execution, taking the necessary steps to identify all possible risks.

We use a creative legal approach in our contracts not only to prevent litigation but also to enhance the profitability of our client’s operations. Resulting in protection for our clients, and their assets.

We have advised on a large number of transactions on an international scale. In recent years, we have worked with several banks and private companies on implementing and escalating credit recovery operations.

We have a robust comprehension of Italian and international fiscal law and tax disputes, allowing us to advise clients on best practice procedures no matter what their next step may be. Our attorneys immerse themselves in client industries to fully understand the regulations pertaining to them, allowing us to become a true ‘business partner.’

The firm specialises in supporting real estate development projects financed through non-bank third-party capital, standing beside investors and developers from asset analysis and the initial investment through proptech solutions, to the final disposal or letting of the asset.

The profile is completed by deep-rooted expertise and a specific focus on every segment of technological innovation applied to real estate (PropTech).

Our attorneys have extensive experience in every facet of global real estate assets, including fundraising and structuring, deployment of capital, financing, refinancing, and final asset disposition.

We offer clients flexible and creative solutions to difficult problems. Working as one team, across practice areas and offices, we present multi-disciplinary counsel on a cost-effective basis.

We regularly advise multinational companies as well as SME on a variety of matters, including:

• Acquisitions and dispositions of single assets, portfolios, majority and minority equity positions, and performing and non-performing loans
• Joint ventures (including one-off partnerships, platforms and club arrangements) involving all asset classes
• Inbound and outbound acquisitions of properties

In addition to our strong experience in traditional operations, approaching the market with an innovative and forward-looking attitude, we also value the new developments and opportunities in this area.

With particular regard for the Italian market, we have gained substantial knowledge in the field of Property Management and the online Real Estate platforms advising some of the major stakeholders.

SAPG Legal Tech professionals assist clients over all the fields of technology that have an impact on legal aspects:

• Privacy and GDPR — compliance on personal-data processing: notices, consent, records, DPIAs and relations with the DPA.
• DPO — acting as Data Protection Officer with ongoing privacy support.
• Artificial intelligence — AI governance and EU AI Act compliance.
• Blockchain — smart contracts, tokens and the legal profile of distributed-ledger technologies.
• Cybersecurity — risk management, incident response and NIS2 obligations.
• Digital contracts — drafting and negotiating software, cloud and digital-service contracts.

End-to-end approach

SAPG Legal Tech takes an end-to-end approach that starts from the client’s specific needs and covers every phase of the project: analysis, design, development, implementation, management and control. The aim is to make business processes more efficient while keeping legal risks under control.

DPO

SAPG Legal Tech acts as DPO for its clients, providing continuous, specialized assistance on site and remotely, also through software solutions developed in-house. The team has handled more than 100 interactions with the Italian Data Protection Authority concerning data subject requests, investigations, data breaches and inspections.

A large variety of public law entities intervene to implement these measures. Understanding how dealing with public law entities may be different from dealing with private entities and the impact of regulation have always been an important aspect of business life.

Our Public Law team has substantial expertise covering all aspects of public economic law, including:

• Administrative contracts
• Permits and authorizations
• Public and mixed entities and structures
• International procurement
• Public law litigation
• Public-private partnerships
• International calls for developing countries
• Human rights

We fully understand the complexities and challenges of this area of law. Our people advise Italian and foreign players in cross-border and local public sector transactions. Our clients value our straightforward and pragmatic advice.

We work in an integrated way with our Banking, Corporate and Real Estate departments, and approach issues from a variety of perspectives, taking into account the wider economic and legal context.

We advise our clients on:

• choice of employment contracts
• management of the employment relationship in all its operational aspects
• restructuring and corporate reorganization processes
• extraordinary operations of staff reduction

Our team has many years of experience in the management of labor disputes, both individual (dismissals, mobbing, job changes, transfers, liability actions, compensation for damages, etc.) and collective.

We have represented companies in all grades and matters of employment and agency. We have challenged administrative sanctions and tax collection measures and assisted in litigation both during the social security inspection and in administrative and judicial proceedings.

Companies today need external support to investigate unlawful, harmful or negligent conduct by their employees to the detriment of the company. We use accredited companies for defensive investigations against hypotheses of illegal absenteeism (false illness, false accident, tactical absenteeism) and for defensive investigations in case of commission of a crime.

We assist Italian companies growing abroad and foreign companies investing in Italy in establishing their presence locally as well as internationally, assisting in the incorporation process, drafting of by-laws, operating agreements, stock-purchase agreements, and employment contracts. Additionally we help to manage client’s legal and contractual requirements.

We assist clients in the negotiation and drafting of international contracts for goods and services across multiple industries. As part of our international practice, we facilitate communications and establish relationships with industry-specific professionals in a variety of jurisdictions. Through the ELF – European Law Firm network, of which the firm is the Italian member, and a network of selected correspondents, we support clients in the main European and international markets.

We provide advice on Italian and international fiscal law and tax disputes. Our team has years of experience in tax law, allowing us to offer clients a complete support solution. Our attorneys can help resolve corporate tax issues both nationally and internationally.

We fully understand the fiscal aspects of many corporate and financial operations on a multi-national level, as well as SME, making us a natural partner when it comes to handling both ordinary and extraordinary fiscal matters.