Corporate, Banking, Finance, Real Estate, & Intellectual Property Law Firm in Dubai

Cugia Cuomo & Associati

Al Ghubaiba Road
Burdubai
Dubai
United Arab Emirates

+971 4 3937700

+971 4 3937755

www.cugiacuomo.it

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Law Firm Overview

Cugia Cuomo & Associati is an independent Italian medium-sized law firm founded in 2006 by strongly skilled partners who gained top experience in major international law firms. Since our establishment, we want to re-discover the value of the trust relationship between the lawyer and its Client, understand its business and tailoring our services to its needs. “Listen Detect” is the motto of the Firm.

Our professionals are highly qualified and experienced Italian lawyers experts also in European Union and International Law, able to provide effective legal advice and assistance to clients ensuring that cross border transactions are carried out in full awareness of the spirit of our Firm. Our professionals have fluency in Italian, English, French, Spanish and Portuguese.

Cugia Cuomo & Associati offers legal advice in favour of national and international governmental institutions, non-profit organizations, corporations (small, medium and big) and entrepreneurial companies. More specifically, among our clients you can find telecom operators, content providers, renewable energy producers and constructors, fashion industry players, private equity investment funds, fiduciary service providers and asset management funds, real estate developers, art-media-entertainment companies, restaurant industries, insurance and financial institutions, international development agencies and local councils.

Areas of Law

Additional Areas of Law: International Compliance and Regulatory; Fashion Industry; Criminal Liability of Business Companies.

Areas of Law Description

Our practice areas include:

- M&A, Corporate and Commercial

Our lawyers regularly advise both national and international organizations about the formation and the structuring of financial and business activities, in Italy and abroad, such as the following:

• acquisition and dispositions of privately owned companies
• reorganizations
• financing
• corporate restructurings
• equity investments
• joint ventures and strategic alliances in addition to tender offers, exchange offers, takeover bids, mergers and spin offs

- Telecommunications, Media and Technology

The Firm’s professionals, through their wide experience gained in national and international operations, may assist in the definition and appraisal of the best suitable regulatory framework or in any structuring of commercial or operative deals. Nowadays, with the increasing changing of the regulatory environment in the global market and vis-à-vis the constant inflow of new technologies and competitive threats, CC&A is a top ranking Firm among those ready to accompany its Clients into any future IT scenario.

- International Compliance and Regulatory

CC&A has a wealth of experience in institutional strengthening, twining projects and capacity building initiatives and can develop these activities to support reforming public institutions. In particular, the firm advises national, regional and local organizations, NGOs and municipalities, with the management of programmes to build and renovate public infrastructures, in addition to revising, updating and reviewing national legislation, as well as assessing and implement educational programs and training sessions.

- Energy and Environment

CC&A professionals are experienced in representing interests in the environmental assessment process, applications for waste management and disposal, set up of energy conversion production plants, municipal infrastructure and services, water and sewage, mining. With regard to this field, our professionals have provided legal advice on regulatory aspects concerning the activity in the market of electric-power, including renewable energy sources (RES) and municipal solid waste reconversion.

- Intellectual Property

Our Intellectual Property department provides counsel and legal assistance to Italian and international clients in relation to judicial protection of intellectual and industrial property rights, such as the securing and enforcing of patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets and other valuable intangible assets, before competent national and international Authorities.
Our professionals are particularly expert in providing advice on intellectual and industrial property protection in the media and information technology industry.

- Fashion Industry

Our Professionals regularly flank start-ups and long-established enterprises in developing their fashion business worldwide. Having accrued a profound knowledge of the peculiar mechanisms of the apparel, footwear and accessories production cycle and distribution, we effortlessly ensure that our Clients have their goods designed, manufactured, properly processed and eventually delivered. In particular, Cugia Cuomo & Associati assists its Italian Clients with “Made in Italy” regulation compliance issues and provides tailored advice on the set-up of a consistent and streamlined manufacturing architecture.

- Creative Arts and Entertainment

CC&A advises producers, distributors and artists with the protection and execution of their IP rights. The Firm is involved in a series of national and local artistic activities, assisting organizers, sponsors and/or artists, and provides general legal counsel in the set up of events.

- Banking & Finance

CC&A has an extensive experience in providing legal advice to Italian and international financial institutions as well as to private enterprises and companies on banking, financial and security matters. The Firm is also expert in project financing initiatives and is able to provide assistance to both financial institutions and to the entities promoting the project, including political and country risk issues and investment securing.

- Real Estate

Leveraging its Professionals’ knowledge of the banking industry, structured finance, zoning and environmental law, the Firm represents developers, private equity funds, corporations and state-owned entities with the acquisition, development, disposition and lease of commercial and residential properties, offices and industrial premises.

- Insurance

The Firm’s practice focuses on advising foreign life and non-life insurance undertakings, particularly assisting in dealing with Italian regulatory provisions and Authorities, especially for those matters either requiring setting up branches of EU and non EU insurance/reinsurance undertakings or involving the provision of services either under the EU free provision regime or in accordance with the right of establishment; assistance also includes taking care of the relevant authorization procedures and advising as to day by day compliances.

- Litigation

CC&A has a vast experience in civil and administrative litigation in all Italian jurisdictions. The Litigation Department of CC&A assists Clients, with material success, in several areas of law, for instance:

• Civil law
• Company and Commercial law
• TMT law
• Intellectual and Industrial property law
• Privacy law
• Bankruptcy proceedings
• Administrative law

- Family Law

Cugia Cuomo & Associati offers legal assistance on every family and childhood law matter, such as:

• mutual consent and legal separations
• divorce and separation agreements re-negotiation
• issues arising after the separation registration
• mutual consent and legal divorces
• enforcement of divorce decisions
• reconciliation agreements
• agreements between married couples or cohabitants regarding personal and property matters

- Criminal Liability of Business Companies

Our firm boasts a deepened expertise in the assessment of criminal and administrative company liability profiles and in the drafting of best-practice internal procedures and standards in relation thereto (e.g. Legislative Decree 8 June 2001, No. 231). Particularly, the Firm’s expertise extends to the deployment of sector-specific best practice procedures in favour of telecom and energy operators.

- Immigration Law

We offer assistance and legal advice to companies, entrepreneurs, and private Italian, EU and foreign nationals in immigration law with the objective of ensuring adequate tools and solution to the customer for entry into our country, and for the regularization in accordance with the provisions required.

- Administrative Law

At Cugia Cuomo & Associati, the scope of our assistance in this area of practice includes:

• administrative proceedings and right to view documents of the Public Administration
• public proceedings in relation to the awarding of public contracts
• territorial governance, urban planning and construction
• privatized public utilities (water, energy, transport, telecommunications): terms and methods of supply, guarantees and protection of citizens, Alternative Dispute Resolution procedures