The first Italian decision on the suspension of the rent payment during the lock-down period
As it is well known, Courts are not able to keep up with the business and they necessarily express their judicial decisions on facts which occurred in the past. Therefore,...
COVID-19: ban on workers dismissal
Following the health emergency due to the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and the consequent and inevitable economic crisis that hit Italy, the Italian Government, with art. 46 of Decree...
German Constitutional Court vs. Court of Justice of the European Union? – The German Constitutional Court’s ruling on ECB Quantitative Easing
The recent ruling of the German Constitutional Court on the Public Sector Purchase Programme (PSPP) issued on 5 May triggered an institutional earthquake. Here we try to outline the actual...
Force majeure and international sale of goods
Force majeure can be defined as an objective, extraordinary and unforeseeable event, occurring after the execution of the contract and having such force as to make its fulfilment impossible. Force...
Effectiveness of bank guarantees in coronavirus times
With decree no. 3071 of 2020, the Court of Venice has ruled in the last few days, in the urgent procedure pursuant to article 700 of the code of civil...
Designer masks? Yes, but only if original
What do Myss Keta, Junior Cally, and Billie Eilish have in common? The fact of being artists and, in particular, singers. True, but there is something else. Even with completely...
The recovery after Covid-19: shall we (re)start from the new insolvency act?
Before the diffusion of Covid-19 one of the most discussed topics among the Italian entrepreneurs and professionals was the entering into force of the New Insolvency Act (Legislative Decree n....
The impact of Covid-19 on the Italian retail market and the first reactions of tenants and landlords
The Italian situation In a few weeks from the discovery of the first official Covid-19 case Italy has been paralyzed in a way which is unprecedented. The lockdown adopted on...
Italian measures to face ongoing Covid-19 outbreak – FAQ
On January 31, 2020, the Council of Ministers of the Italian Government declared, for six months, the State of Emergency as a consequence of the health risk connected to the...
Q&A – Covid-19 and pending commercial agreements
Does the COVID-19 pandemic constitute a force majeure reason in the Italian legal system? Yes. The COVID-19 is a pandemic also from a legal perspective and therefore constitutes a force...