Bio

Roberta Crivellaro leads our Italian practice and is a partner in the corporate team. Roberta is also European Leader of our business division and heads our ‘Italian Desks’ worldwide. She is leading partner in the Italian corporate and real estate teams and specialises in all aspects of corporate and real estate domestic and cross-border transactions, with a particular focus on food & beverage and hospitality sectors. Roberta acts as the point of reference for many prominent Italian companies, family offices and family businesses doing business around the world, and foreign companies and HNWI investing in Italy. Her long-lasting experience in different jurisdictions, together with an in-depth knowledge of various legal systems and foreign laws, strengthen her ability to make full use of both the principles of civil law (European law) and common law (Anglo-Saxon system), being dual qualified both in Italy and in England and Wales. Roberta is the first Italian woman to become a partner of a City law firm in London; she is also one of the few female managing partners of a major Italian law firm. A leading figure in the Italian legal market, Roberta has gained numerous awards throughout her career. Among her latest recognitions, she has been mentioned for several years (including 2020) as "Leading Lawyer" in the food sector by the international directory Legal 500 EMEA. The Italian legal directory "LegalCommunity" listed Roberta amongst the Best-50 Italian lawyers in Italy in 2019, mentioning her ‘remarkable professional skills’ and her ‘strong leadership ability’. In addition, the same publication in 2020 listed her amongst the few female managing partners of a law firm in Italy, therefore contributing to an important change within the Italian legal market, historically led by men. She was listed in Forbes Italy’s top tier 100 legal and strategic consultants in Italy in 2018 and also featured in Forbes Italy’s ‘Italian Women of Achievement’, - one of only two lawyers on this list - which highlights major individuals active in the areas where Italy plays a role on the international stage. Her team was recognised as ‘Transatlantic Private Client Team of the Year 2018’ in the USA for its structuring advice to the Mayor of Venice, and won the LegalCommunity Award for best advisors to the food sector in Italy in 2019. She teaches and lectures on several master courses, such as AIFO master (The Italian Association of Family Offices) and the Bocconi University AIDAF course (the Italian Association of Family Businesses). A strong advocate of female empowerment, she is also recognised as one of the most outstanding representatives of female leadership in Italy and is frequently interviewed on the topic by the Italian media.