Studio Legale Sutti

FIRM PROFILE

Studio Legale Sutti was founded in 1953 by Dr. Angelo Sutti, Knight of the Italian Republic, with a strong focus on company-commercial law and on intellectual property & competition. In the late seventies the Firm began an uninterrupted trend of growth, making it eventually one of the largest Italian independent firms. In the process, SLS opened a Labour & Related Matters Department with its own premises, staffed by lawyers who had already collaborated with the Firm in this area for a number of years. Thus, the Firm was dramatically reorganised - profiting also from an early investment in state-of-the-art office automation and IT - into a structure of three departments, which is still in place.

In the mid-eighties, SLS's practice, while retaining most of its original features, including its emphasis on human resources and teamwork, its commitment to excellence in contentious work and its loyalty to a substantial core of domestic clientele, became increasingly involved in the international arena, and began interviewing foreign candidates in its recruitment operations. This also led the Firm to establish in 1992 its two first offices abroad, namely in London and Tokyo, which offer Italian legal services to the local markets, and to participate actively to the life of a number of foreign chambers of commerce and trade associations in Italy.

The domestic operation of SLS, which had already included two regional offices serving Northern Italy, respectively situated in the area of Bergamo and Brescia (in Trescore Balneario) and in the area of Pavia and the southern Milanese province (in Abbiategrasso), were significantly reinforced in 1993, when the Firm merged with Monti & Partners - another well-known Milan-based law firm active since 1927 and specialised in international investments and trade, as well as banking and financial law -, and moved its Head Office to the current premises in Milan, via Montenapoleone 8.

The merged firm kept the name Studio Legale Sutti, while Marco Monti, former Senior Partner of Monti & Partners, became the new Senior Partner, after the premature death of Angelo Sutti. Guido Monti, who founded Monti & Partners and was its Senior Partner until 1975, remained Of Counsel to Studio Legale Sutti until the age of ninety-eight and 2002, as the dean of Milan Bar and one of the eldest practising lawyer in Italy.

The 2000s also saw the establishment of new Italian offices, respectively in Rome; Monza; and Genoa, where SLS was honoured to be joined by the partners and associates of Studio Pennisi. In the meantime, SLS having welcomed in its ranks as well those of Varadinov & Co., of the leading Yugoslavian business practice of Fila Law Office, and of Vitzman Webster & Partners, three new offices abroad have been added, respectively in Sofia, Belgrade, and Bucharest making SLS also the largest single practice of South-Eastern Europe. and a point of reference for investements and trade involving that part of the world.

The offices in Sofia, Belgrade, and Bucharest offer, world-class, multilingual Bulgarian, Serbian, and Romanian legal services to both multinational corporations and medium-sized companies, as well as to foreign law firms and patent attorneys acting on behalf of their clients.

The integration of the Bucharest office in 2003 with the rest of Studio Legale Sutti, together with the previous opening of offices in Sofia and Belgrade, has made us the main independent firm of South-Eastern Europe in terms of size and territorial coverage; and we remain the only law firm of the region currently represented in the United Kingdom and Japan.

Statement of Practice

International Contracts, Foreign Investments, Mergers and Acquisition, Distributorship, Agency and Franchise Law, Construction Law, Energy Law, EC Law, Antitrust Law, Corporate Law, Banking and Finance Law, Commercial Litigation, Arbitration, Bankruptcy, Debt Collection, Product Liability Law, Media Law, Environmental Law, Information Technology and Telecommunications Law, Administrative Law, White Collar Crime, Criminal Law. Industrial Property and Competition Law, Patent Litigation and Prosecution, Trademark Litigation and Prosecution, Copyright Law, Industrial Models, License Negotiation, Technology Transfer, Patent and Trademark Filing and Research, Advertising Law. Labour and Industrial Relations, Labour Law, Employer's Liability, Pension Law, Industrial Relations, Managers' Contracts, Immigration Law