Studio Benessia-Maccagno is a professional legal partnership, with offices in Turin and Milan, founded in 1978 by Angelo Benessia and Cristiana Maccagno Benessia. It is a civil law practice focusing on commercial law: company law and in particular extraordinary finance transactions, M&A, private equity, corporate governance, auditing firms, Italian and EU competition; banking law including financial intermediation and insurance broking; intellectual and industrial property law; insolvency law with particular emphasis on preventive and protection procedures as well as business and corporate reorganisation and restructuring; wills and estates, with specific reference to generational transfers; labour law, also with reference to corporate reorganisations; and administrative law especially public sector invitations to tender and contracts, public utilities, public-private partnerships and mixed companies, project finance and relations with supervisory authorities. In all the above areas, Studio Benessia-Maccagno provides advice and assistance outside the courts as well as representation before the courts and arbitration panels. This includes the maintaining of contacts and litigation vis-à-vis supervisory authorities. We offer advice and assistance in the domestic and transnational management of compensation actions in contract or in tort, also in class actions. Our approach to our work is based on collaboration and synergies among our partners to ensure the services we deliver are efficient and seamless and meet with our clients' requirements, preserving the personal and exclusive nature of our representation of the client, even when we work as a team.