Market entry

Portolano Cavallo’s expertise

Portolano Cavallo maintains offices in Milan and Rome. With licensed lawyers in multiple locations, we can support clients anywhere in Italy. Our Market Entry team relies on in-house resources and a network of trusted professionals. Over the years we have accumulated considerable experience in a wide range of areas, including:

• corporate and tax advice; branch vs Italian subsidiary;
• M&A and Private Equity;
• Labor and Employment;
• Employment by foreign entities;
• Commercial Contracts, leases, Real Estate acquisitions;
• advice on Regulatory requirements, Administrative and licensing matters, Compliance, Investigations, Whistleblowing;
• Insolvency;
• Startup and Venture Capital;
• advice on Ecommerce and Advertising aspects, drafting/localization of terms and conditions, audit of website’s contents for compliance with the Italian regulations;
• Privacy, Cyber Security and Data Protection;
• Dispute Resolution;
• advice on how to protect your Intellectual Property, deciding on the most appropriate method of trading (and seeking appropriate commercial and tax advice);
• EU and Competition Law;
• ESG – Environmental, Social and Governance.

North America

Portolano Cavallo has an office in New York, where our team of lawyers can assist overseas clients with interests in Italy.

French desk

Portolano Cavallo can count on one of the largest French desks in the Italian market. A multidisciplinary team of lawyers has been assisting French-speaking clients with interests in Italy for more than a decade.

German Desk

The Portolano Cavallo German Desk provides high-level legal advice and assistance in German to clients in the DACH countries and Alto Adige. The mission of the German Desk is to help clients overcome linguistic and cultural barriers in order to reach their business goals.

How to set up an S.r.l.:

• Description of the procedure
• Memo on Italian Corporations
• Pre-incorporation checklist
• Draft by-laws

How to open a branch:

• Description of the procedure
• Pre-incorporation checklist

We leave them available for download, hoping they will be useful.

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Why enter the Italian market?

Italy is a major global economy (the eighth largest in the world) with a widely diversified free market economy.

The country ranks second in Europe for manufacturing and boasts steady growth in sectors such as tourism, art, culture, design, robotics, biotechnology, renewable energy, scientific research, and civil engineering.

Italy is also an important player on the world stage: a member of the EU, the World Trade Organization, the G20, the G7, and the Council of Europe. The country’s infrastructure is well developed, with extensive road, rail, and airport networks, as well as some of the most important ports in the Mediterranean.

Italy’s central location makes it a key transportation hub for Europe and the rest of the world.