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We are a highly specialised law firm, focusing in administrative, antitrust and regulatory, commercial and corporate, banking and finance, and tax law, practices in which we have achieved a position of excellence in thirthy years of activity.
From the initial focus on judicial and extrajudicial administrative law – which allowed the Firm to make a leading contribute to the reform of Italian public administration initiated in the late Nineties – we have expanded and evolved our skills over the years, to include antitrust and regulatory law and, more recently, corporate law, commercial litigation and arbitration, as well as topics related to European Union law.
In 2024 a group of professionals led by Claudio Visco joined the Firm, expanding our expertise also to financial and tax law, strengthening the practices already present in the Firm and aiming at a greater international visibility, also through the roles played by the new professionals in the International Bar Association (IBA) and in the International Fiscal Association (IFA,) thus consolidating our position as a leading independent law firm.
However, our approach to the profession has not changed: we aim providing legal advice with the added value of a strategic vision, to guide Clients towards the best legal solutions in a strategic planning process arising from our constant commitment to follow and try to anticipate our Clients’ needs.
1996
Damiano Lipani founded Lipani & Partners in Rome, specialised in administrative law, with a focus on private and public procurement for the provision of services, works and goods. He brought the experience he gained in the Arthur Andersen network, and then as General Counsel of a major ICT multinational.
1999
As part of the programme for the rationalisation of Italian public spending, the Financial Law for 2000 assigned to Consip S.p.A. – a publicly-owned company managing the IT of the Italian General Accounting Office – the additional role of procurement centre for central and local government.
As single legal advisor, we oversaw its start-up, consolidation and development until 2014, from the definition of its strategy, regulatory approach and operating model to its implementation and execution.
At the same time, we gradually expanded our internal organisation and skills.
2004
In 2004 we began to provide advice for projects and operations of Innovazione Italia, a new government entity established to support businesses.
In the same period, we were involved in the first experiment in the state-funded digitalisation of the electoral process and electronic voting.
2006
We advised and supported the project for the nationalisation of voluntary and coercive collection of state and local authority revenues, helping to design the setting up of the new model and the launch of Equitalia organisation.
In the same period, we assisted Capitalia in the rationalisation and reorganisation of the Group’s subsidiaries and management of the relevant real estate assets.
2008
In 2008 a large number of Professionals specialised in administrative law joined the Firm, which expanded and moved its Rome offices to via Vittoria Colonna 40, in a monumental building next to the Supreme Court of Cassation.
2014
Antonio Catricalà – former State Attorney, member of the Council of State, President of the Italian Competition and Antitrust Authority, Secretary General and Undersecretary to the Prime Minister of Economic Development, Deputy Minister for Economic Development and holder of other institutional, governmental and academic appointments – joined the Firm, enabling us to expand our antitrust, competition and consumer law practices. We changed our name to Lipani Catricalà & Partners.
2015
The historic Rome office, next to the Supreme Court of Cassation, is joined by a new Milan office, in front of the Italian Stock Exchange. These two premises fittingly represented our two core focuses, Law and Business, as it expanded and consolidated its presence in Northern Italy.
2020
The Covid-19 pandemic provided an opportunity to rethink our organisation, not only according to our traditional horizontal practices but also on the basis of vertical industries served.
2022
After pandemic, we strengthened our commercial and corporate law and related litigation practice: we immediately met the companies’ needs to return to business, hard hit by the Covid shutdown.
2023
We are at the forefront of projects for the construction of strategic infrastructures of national interest, as well as projects financed by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) and by the National Plan for Complementary Investments (PNC), as well as by structural funds.
2024
A large group of Professionals – with more than 30 years of experience in banking and finance, litigation and arbitration, corporate and tax law – led by Claudio Visco joined the Firm from Macchi di Cellere Gangemi. We have now 32 professionals, 11 of whom are partners, and we have expanded our traditional practices with the integration of new skills and specialisations to serve the relevant industries. We marked this step by adding “Legal & Tax” to our brand.
2026
