Monthly News
International franchising: development opportunities for retail companies
- Wednesday 31 May 2023
- Business Development, Franchising, Franchising internazionale, Retail
One of the most used legal instruments by companies in the retail sector, with the aim of increasing their turnover and expanding their market share, is the franchising agreement (or, according to Italian law, “affiliazione commerciale”). Concept and legal-economic function of the ...
Third Party Funding
- Friday 25 May 2018
- Business Development, Contenzioso arbitrale e giudiziario, Contenzioso civile, Diritto Commerciale e Contratti, Internazionalizzazione
- Europa, USA
A few months ago, the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) and the Queen Mary University of London co-hosted a roundtable discussion focusing on the possible public policy implications of third-party funding in investor-State dispute settlement. Third party’s litigation ...
Made in Italy conquers China on Alibaba: new opportunities for SMEs.
- Friday 23 September 2016
- Business Development, E-commerce, Information Tecnnology, Internazionalizzazione
- Asia
At the end of XIII century it took 8 years for Marco Polo to get to and from China, nowadays, instead, 8 seconds through the Internet are enough. Starting from this idea, on September the 4th the Italian Government signed an agreement with the e-commerce Chinese giant Alibaba, in order to ...
Innovative start-ups: Farewell to the Notary
- Friday 29 July 2016
- Business Development, Contratti, Diritto Commerciale e Contratti, Diritto Societario, Information Tecnnology, Novità legislative, Start up
- Italia, Startup
A directorial decree marks an important breakthrough in the field of creation of innovative start-ups, reversing the typical Italian tendency towards the excessive bureaucracy and formalism. As of July 20, it is possible to set up a LTD qualified as "innovative start-up" directly online...
PATENT BOX DEVELOPMENTS: THE ITALIAN REVENUE AGENCY EXPLAINS THE REGULATION
- Friday 29 April 2016
- Business Development, Diritto Civile, Diritto Commerciale e Contratti, Diritto Societario, Information Tecnnology, Internazionalizzazione, Marchi e brevetti, Novità legislative, Sharing economy, Start up
- Europa, Italia, Startup
On April 7th, 2016, the Italian Revenue Agency issued Circular No. 11/2016 in relation to Patent Box, in order to solve some issues arisen after the application of this particular taxation system. The Patent Box regime, introduced in Italy with the Law No. 189 of December 23rd, 2014 (2015 ...