No. of offices Five Major practice areas General practice Founded 1999 Number of offices 5 | No. of lawyers Approximately 350 Revenue 130 million EUR Headquarters Milan | |
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Date founded 1999 (Milan, Genoa and Bruxelles) Company type Associazione tra professionisti Profiles | ||
BonelliErede is an 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.
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Legacy firms
Bonelli e Associati was founded in 1996 by Franco Bonelli, 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, 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, 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.
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. 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 are made up of 6 partners, including the Managing Partner, Alberto Saravalle, who was nominated in 2007. His predecessors were Giovanni Domenichini (2001–2007). (1999–2001), and Umberto Nicodano
Name
In July 2015, the firm changed its name to BonelliErede.