Roberta Crivellaro Bio

Roberta is managing partner of Withers in Italy, European leader of the business division and head of our 'Italian desks' worldwide. She specializes in cross-border corporate, commercial and real estate transactions in many different business sectors, such as food and wine, luxury, fashion and furniture. She is a point of reference in the Italian market for transactions involving family offices or family businesses with a particular focus on corporate reorganization issues and generational business transitions. She worked for many years in London, where she qualified as a solicitor, and became the first Italian woman to become a partner in a City law firm. She is now among the very few managing partners of a business law firm in Italy. In 2024 Forbes Italy mentions her among the top 100 consulting professionals in Italy. Since 2019, she has been listed among Italy's Best-50 lawyers in the Italian legal directory LegalCommunity and in 2020 was recognised for having contributed to the increase in the number of women managing partners, a momentous change in the Italian legal market, historically led by men.