Studio Legale Sutti


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Studio Legale Sutti

2-17-13 Asagaya-Kita
Suginami-ku
Tokyo 166-0001
Japan

Phone +81 3 3310 0693
Fax +81 3 3310 0740

Law Firm Overview

Studio Legale Sutti's mission is to provide a full range of legal services to businesses, investors, and foreign colleagues with similar practices, relying primarily on the excellence of our human resources, a customer-driven organisational culture, and cutting-edge information technology solutions.

With that objective in mind, SLS has been among the first Italian firms to switch from the traditional focus on areas of law to a more comprehensive and up-to-date approach, where the Firm's services and skills are instead tailored to suit its prospective and current clients' needs.

Thus, besides its continuing involvement in the civil and commercial branches of the law, the Firm has progressively implemented a more interdisciplinary and interprofessional practice - now structured into four specialised departments - including business-related administrative law consultation and litigation as well as white collar criminal defence; while private client services, albeit still occasionally provided, have been progressively de-emphasised. For example, SLS is now also a patent and trademark agency, having implemented in 1996 full-fledged in-house patent attorney services, under the direction of Roberto Dini, as a part of our IP and Competition Department's activities. Similarly, the Firm has recruited over the years a number of commercialists, who are active in the framework of our Company-Commercial Department and of our Tax Department.

Thus, SLS nowadays represents almost exclusively corporate clients; and is especially sought after by many of those who operate in:
- the IT, high-tech and consumer electronics industry;
- the chemical, pharmaceutical, biomedical, cosmetic and nutritional sectors, including bio-technologies;
- the banking and financial market;
- and, as it is perhaps normal to expect from an Italian firm, the world of brand products, fashion, and industrial design.

Furthermore, Studio Legale Sutti from the very beginning has always devoted substantial resources to its work for construction (and other) contractors, and for employers/owners, in complex projects; and since 1990 has extended its involvement to all the regulatory, governmental and administrative matters pertaining to the Italian jurisdiction, such as those related to environmental law, to construction licenses, to city zoning, to project finance and to commercial property development., so that it is mentioned by International Projects 500 (Legalese) as one of the major commercial firm in Italy which can claim project finance experience.

With regard to international work, it is important to note that SLS - whilst it handles its domestic clients' problems worldwide, directly instructing the appropriate local correspondents and maintaining thorough contacts with the same on their behalf - does not mainly target foreign "final
clients". Its services are instead geared towards foreign law firms, patent agencies and in-house counsel departments. In fact, Studio Legale Sutti presents itself abroad as a one-stop-shop for all their clients' and employers' needs related to Italian law.

Actually, the principal aim of our representation offices in London and Tokyo is exactly that of offering to local firms this kind of specialist advice and representation in courts and arbitrations, in a "barrister-like" fashion, for everything pertaining to the Italy and South-Eastern Europe laws, markets and jurisdictions.

We are therefore especially honoured by the trust and loyalty of foreign colleagues who utilise our services - or simply integrate them in their own.

Studio Legale Sutti - Providing services in the following areas of law: