Gaia Griccioli

Gaia Griccioli is a partner of studio Visconti & Associati, which is an Italian firm based in Milan, highly specialised in providing assistance to foreign companies and private clients, in complex disputes regarding corporate, contractual, bankruptcy and labour law matters, in national and international arbitration proceedings, in acquisitions, reorganisations and other corporate operations.

She provides assistance to clients in extraordinary company transactions in different scenarios which vary from assisting entrepreneurs, businesses in the start-up phase, industrial groups, financial institutions, private equity funds and foreign companies in cross-border and national transactions involving mergers, spin-offs, acquisitions and sales of shareholdings and businesses, as well as in private equity acquisitions and in establishing joint ventures.

Ms Griccioli also provides general corporate assistance to primary Italian companies and, in this field, has gained a particular experience in domestic and international franchise, distribution and other commercial agreements.

Her clients are primarily Italian companies operating, in particular, in the fashion, packaging and retail business.

Ms Griccioli’s recent cases include advising:

• a major Italian company in forming five joint ventures companies in Italy operating in the packaging industry;
• a leading Italian retail company in negotiating and entering into business branch agreements;
• a group of entrepreneurs in the sale of their majority shareholding to a private equity fund;
• a company owning a high-end luxury estate located in Tuscany in forming a joint venture with a foreign multinational company.

She is fluent in English and French.