Our professionals support entrepreneurs in all aspects of the life of a company. From the setting up and management of the company to the entrepreneur’s daily activities and those of the management bodies, up to M&A and equity transactions, such as mergers, stock, shares and assets transactions, leveraged buy-outs, spin-offs and joint ventures.

Due to experience gained in over twenty years of activity, our lawyers have a comprehensive knowledge of the details of different industrial sectors (food, automotive, technology and information technology, engineering, construction and major works and infrastructure, chemical and pharmaceutical, textile and manufacturing, energy), services (communication, media and entertainment, sports, advertising, business consulting and marketing, public administration, tourism and hotel services) and finance (financial intermediaries, investment funds) and are ready to identify and adapt solutions and action proposals to the specific needs of the sectorin which our clients operate.

The firm supports and advises its clients in the management of company crisis situations, such as debt restructuring and rescheduling, pre-bankruptcy agreements, winding-up and liquidation procedures, working in close collaboration with accountants and business consultants to identify the most appropriate tools and solutions case by case.

The lawyer Nicola Bottero has developed in-depth expertise in assisting administrators and commissioners in the management of company activities and legal proceedings in the context of bankruptcy proceedings.

Lawyers Nicola Bottero and Massimo Travostino have been assisting clients regarding issues of intellectual property for over twenty years. Their experience was gained in the traditional sectors of intellectual property and together with their collaborators they offer assistance in matters of trademarks and distinctive signs, patents, designs and models, original intellectual works, the entertainment industry, publishing, advertising and cultural heritage, including Court proceedings and interim measures.

As a result of their constant and intense activity, they have developed profitable collaboration relationships with the most authoritative offices of professional trademark and patent agents.

We assist our Italian and foreign clients in transnational operations involving different jurisdictions and the application of European Regulations and Directives; our English and French speaking lawyers work closely with a network of partner firms spread all over the world. We offer our experience and skill in public financing projects, advising consortia and business groupings on the management of relations between partners (consortium agreements) and with financing entities.

DGTB Legal can count on specific expertise in the field of competition and antitrust law, both in the management of vertical and horizontal agreements for the distribution and transfer of technology, in the evaluation of mergers and in Antitrust Authority notification procedures, as well as in litigation on unfair competition, know-how and trade secrets, the transfer of employees, abuse of a dominant position, and ambush marketing.

DTGB Legal supports its private and public Italian and foreign clients in the negotiation, stipulation and execution of contractual arrangements of all kinds: from current B2B and B2C commercial contracts (sales and service and work contracts, general conditions of sale, rental and leasing, distribution and agency agreements, franchising, licensing and technology transfer, research and development, bank and insurances guarantees, letters of credit and patronage) to more complex transactions involving multiple industrial and financial parties (letters of intent, commercial and corporate joint venture contracts, consortia and temporary associations of companies, network contracts , patent pooling), to contracts typical of specific industrial, financial and service sectors (music, film and television production, licence for use of television formats, sponsorship and endorsement contracts, transfer and licensing of intellectual property rights, development and prototyping of industrial design, crowdfunding, insurance and reinsurance, bank financing contracts,leasing, factoring and transfer of receivables).

DGTB Legal assists entrepreneurs and workers in labour law: from the choice of the most appropriate contractual framework, to the signing of an employment contract and its management up to termination of the same, both extrajudicially and in Court in case of litigation.

DGTB Legal’s contribution in the area of labour law is essential for extraordinary operations involving businesses, such as the liquidation of companies and trade union procedures, corporate restructuring and corporate crises (layoff fund, collective dismissal, mobility procedures).

The firm has a specific, consolidated expertise in supporting, advising and protecting private and public clients in the fields of computer science, information and communication technology, databases, data protection and open data.

DGTB Legal’s professionals work closely with computer scientists, software developers, economists and marketing experts in order to support them in the ideation, developement, implementation and management of new technologies and online activities, from content managent platforms to e-commerce, from e-public procurement to the blockchain based activities.

The twenty-year experience of DGTB Legal professionals has brought with it specific, in-depth experience in e-public procurement, digital administration and the use of computer sciencein administrative procedures and document management through IT tools.

DGTB assists public entities in all the process of public procurement, with particular reference to drafting of tender documentation and issues relating to the conduction of the online tender procedure.