Andrea R. Castaldo

Studio Legale Castaldo (www.castlawoffice.it) in Naples was founded over 30 years ago by Avv. Prof. Andrea R. Castaldo, Full Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Salerno.

The firm comprises a number of professional figures working as senior and junior associates, as well as external consultants specialising in different areas of law.

S.L.C. mainly operates in the field of White-Collar Crime, especially in the development and monitoring of compliance programmes and ethical codes for companies, also providing assistance during criminal proceedings. The firm offers legal assistance in criminal law matters relating to the private and public sectors, proposing solutions to prevent and counteract bribery, corruption, money laundering, and economic crime.

The firm runs a training course on Anticorruption and Whistleblowing open to private and public companies.

It also provides clients with a tailor-made approach to technical assistance and personal service.

The firm has offices in Naples and Milan, opening a new branch in Munich in December 2004.

S.L.C. is also a partner of several law firms located in all the major business hotspots, thus guaranteeing all-round customer care.

S.L.C. has important partnerships with national and foreign institutions.

Professor Castaldo, Founder & Main Partner of the Firm, is one of the leading Italian consultants in the sphere of economic crime, money laundering, and corruption as expert in anti-corruption and anti-money-laundering policies. Professor Castaldo represented Italy in Beijing as Italian Delegate to the G20 Member States Symposium on Antiterrorism and Anticorruption Global Strategies in both 2018 and 2019. He is currently at the head of a research project on preventing and counteracting unlawful activities in the Public Administration.

He has spoken at over 500 conferences in some of the most prestigious Universities and Institutions across the globe, and over the last three years he has held the floor at more than 100 international and national conferences.

In his academic career he has published over 100 volumes and articles, some of which have appeared in a number of foreign languages. He is also a regular contributor to the leading economic press in Italy.

He won the international “G. Falcone – P. Borsellino” prize awarded by the I.G.R.C. (Istituto Giuridico di Ricerca Comparata), XVII edition, for his contribution to preventing and combatting money laundering in his volume “Il denaro sporco. Prevenzione e repressione nella lotta al riciclaggio”, CEDAM, 2010.

In 2017 he won the Università Popolare degli Studi di Milano’s international “Gabriele d’Annunzio” award for scientific, social, and human excellence.

In 2016 and 2019 S.L.C. won the “Firm of the Year” award in the area of White-Collar Crimes by “Le Fonti Awards – Milan”.

In 2019 Il Sole 24 Ore, in conjunction with Statista, an international company specialising in market analysis, numbered Studio Castaldo among the best Italian law firms of 2019.

Languages spoken: Italian – English – German – Spanish – Portuguese – French.