The Law Firm Berlingieri Maresca has been established in December 2016 through the merger of the experience of two amongst the oldest and more prestigious Italian law firms specialized in maritime law and commercial trade: Studio Legale Berlingieri and Studio Legale Maresca. The Berlingieri law firm has been the first law firm in Italy with a practice in maritime law and its history goes back to 1882, when Francesco Berlingieri Senior started his legal practice. He was succeeded by his son Giorgio Berlingieri Senior, to whom followed his two sons, Renzo and Francesco Jr., father of Giorgio Berlingieri Junior. The Maresca law firm was founded in 1939 by advocate Ugo Maresca, who had commenced his legal activity as advisor of his family shipping company and worked in the shipping sector for shipowners, maritime agents, oil companies, ship and repair yards, and acted as arbitrator in several maritime disputes. In the seventies he was joined by his son Marcello and then in the eighties by advocate Francesco Campodonico. The experience and the structure of Berlingieri Maresca enable its members to offer a global assistance, with careful attention to the commercial requirements of the client in all Italian ports and before any judicial authority, ensuring that any matter entrusted to its members will be handled promptly and with the greatest competence. Berlingieri Maresca has direct relationship with primary law firms specialist in maritime labor, tax, administrative and penal law and, thanks to a consolidated international relationship with the most qualified foreign law firms, is in a position to provide assistance to the client in any jurisdiction before the judicial, administrative and arbitration authorities.