Bonelli Erede Pappalardo

Bonelli Erede Pappalardo
Headquarters Milan, Italy
No. of offices Five
No. of lawyers Approximately 253 [1]
Major practice areas General practice
Revenue €130 million[1]
Date founded 1999 (Milan, Genoa and Bruxelles)
Company type Associazione tra professionisti
Website
www.beplex.com

Bonelli Erede Pappalardo is a leading Italian law firm. It was formed in 1999 when the Genoa-based Bonelli e Associati merged with the Milan-based Erede e Associati and the Brussels-based Pappalardo e Associati.

Legacy Firms

Bonelli e Associati was founded in 1996 by Franco Bonelli,[2] an attorney in M&A and Litigation and Professor of Corporate Law at the University of Genoa.

Erede e Associati, founded in 1995, was led by Sergio Erede,[3] a graduate of the University of Milan and Harvard Law School. He had been previously associated with Sullivan & Cromwell and Hale & Dorr, now known as WilmerHale.

Pappalardo e Associati was founded in 1992 by Aurelio Pappalardo,[4] a graduate of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and the University of Chicago, who had previously worked at the Milan office of Jones Day.

Reasons for the merger

The three-way merger was largely a result of market pressure during a period of rapid change in the Italian legal sector as international (mostly American and British) law firms such as Clifford Chance, and Shearman & Sterling actively sought to expand their existing operations, or open offices in Italy.[5] The merger was essentially a flanking operation that forced foreign firms to concentrate their energies on mergers with smaller Italian firms or to acquire specific teams.

The firm is managed by a Board of Directors that is made up of 6 partners, including the Managing Partner, Alberto Saravalle,[6][7] who was nominated in 2007. His predecessors were Giovanni Domenichini (2001–2007).[8] (1999–2001), and Umberto Nicodano[9]

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