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Francesca Sbrana

Founder
& Senior Partner

Francesca Sbrana won the TopLegal Awards 2024 as Best Lawyer in Administrative Litigation. Admitted to the Rome Bar in 1998, she is qualified to represent clients before the higher courts.

She joined the firm in 1999 and has played a key role in the development of its administrative law practice ever since. Her practice focuses on administrative law, with particular expertise in administrative and accounting litigation.

She completed her legal training at the State Attorney’s Office before working for several years with a leading Rome-based law firm specialising in administrative and administrative-accounting law. During this period, she handled matters involving oil drilling licences, commercial authorisations for large shopping centres, public tenders, concessions for public goods and services, property development and planning, compulsory purchases, public sector employment and administrative-accounting liability.

Over the course of her career, she has developed significant expertise in public tenders for the supply of goods and services, public contract law, the establishment and management of public sector procurement centres, publicly owned companies, the organisation and management of public bodies, and litigation before administrative and accounting courts.

She has led the firm’s administrative and accounting litigation sector since 2006, advising central and local government, public companies, public enterprises, public law bodies, concession holders and private clients on matters involving organisation, management, procurement processes and the interaction between public and private parties.

A member of the editorial board of the Rivista Amministrativa della Repubblica Italiana, founded in 1850, she is the author of numerous publications and regularly lectures in both public and private contexts.

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Academic background
  • Rome “La Sapienza” University

Languages
Italian, English

Comments & Publications

22.06.2026

A Green Light for AI in Public Administration — Even When It Hallucinates

Comments

04.06.2026

Breaches of EU Restrictive Measures under Legislative Decree 231: The New Central Role of Trade Compliance

Comments

25.05.2026

The Evolution of Case Law on Unlawful Credit Granting

Comments

11.05.2026

CFC Rules and ATAD: The CJEU Defines the Limits of Member States’ Discretion

Comments

20.04.2026

False Performance Bonds in Public Procurement: Legal Consequences for Contract Awards and the Limits of Curative Measures

Comments

07.04.2026

The New AGCM Regulation on the Legality Rating: From a Reputational Tool to an Integrated Compliance Indicator

Comments

09.03.2026

Project Finance after the CJEU Judgment of 5 February 2026 (Case C-810/24): Immediate Disapplication of the Right of First Refusal and the First Operational Guidance

Comments

19.02.2026

The Value of Personal Data before the Administrative Courts: The Dual Nature of Personal Data and the Extension of the “Glass House” Principle to Digital Businesses

Comments

06.02.2026

The Networks Act: A Step Towards a Truly Integrated European Market?

Comments

01.04.2021

[ITA] LE PROPOSTE DELLA AGCM AI FINI DELLA LEGGE ANNUALE PER IL MERCATO E LA CONCORRENZA ANNO 2021

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