SLCG is a professional association of lawyers, with offices in Milan, Florence, Rome and Paris, which specializes in providing comprehensive legal services for companies. Our firm’s clients include high profile European and American companies with investments in Italy as well as Italian companies engaged in commercial or industrial business initiatives abroad. The flexibility of the structure of SLCG enables us to contain costs to take into consideration the services requested by the client, making us highly competitive on an international scale. In addition to the litigation and transactional work which external law firms usually offer, SLCG provides legal assistance for individual matters in line with the services provided by an internal company legal team, including: > early case assessment (ECA) at the outset of disputes, formulated on the basis of best, most likely and worst case scenarios, providing an upfront summary of the risks and benefits of the dispute and also allowing for the establishment of financial statement reserves; > case management including an estimate of legal costs and cost control, consideration of possible alternatives to litigation, continual updating of expectations and coordination with the external accountants, experts, technical staff and employees involved in any particular matter; > early dispute resolution (EDR) techniques, such as settlement negotiations and mediation, applied as alternatives to court or arbitration proceedings; > identification of the expertise required with regard to the applicable law and the competent forum, and various contacts worldwide to assist with matters outside of our capacity; > training courses for employees on recurrent legal issues; and > development of best practices and handbooks for internal company use.