NCTM Law Firm
NCTM is an independent law firm operating in Italy. NCTM has offices in Milan, Rome, Verona, Brussels and London and 310 professionals, including 44 equity partners, and is Italy’s largest law firm by numbers (Legal 500, 2009 edition).
The firm offers full legal services across all corporate sectors to both international and domestic clients through its network of offices in all of Italy’s major commercial hubs as well as Brussels and London.
The firm’s clients include multinationals, funds, banks, insurance companies, financial institutions as well as trading, industrial and service companies.
History
NCTM was founded in 2000 out of the merger between Negri-Clementi Montironi & Soci and Toffoletto e Associati. Nearly ten years ago, NCTM was predominately an Italian firm with small domestic operations. Since then, due to an aggressive growth strategy, it has become one of the top five players through organic growth and a serious of acquisitions.
NCTM opened its newest office in London in November 2008, NCTM Limited Liability Partnership, in response to clients’ growing demand for legal services from Italian clients operating in the region.
In the first half of 2009, NCTM agreed terms for the integration of one of Italy’s leading real estate boutiques, Delli Santi & Partners with 30 lawyers and also absorbed Italian independent law firm Janni, Fauda and Associates with about 40 lawyers to the firm.
In June 2009, the firm merged with specialist Brussels based firm O’Connor and Company. O'Connor’s expertise is in international economic law with particular emphasis on WTO and EU law, litigation before the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg and WTO dispute settlement in Geneva. This move completes NCTM’s wide-range of business law services to both international and domestic clients.
Notable Transactions
Acquisition of N&W Global Vending SpA by a consortium of equity investors led by Barclays Private Equity and Investcorp (2008)
Acquisition of 100% of I.Net, aimed at the de-listing of the same, by BT Group (2007)
Global Initial Public Offering of Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (2007)
Global Initial Public Offering of Toro Assicurazioni S.p.A. (2005)
Main practice areas
• Antitrust and Competition
• Banking and Finance
• Bankruptcy and Debt restructuring
• Communications and technologies
• Corporate and Commercial
• Dispute Resolution and Arbitration
• Energy
• Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS)
• Industrial and Intellectual Property
• Insurance and Reinsurance
• International Trade
• Italian and European Community Administrative Law
• Labour law
• Mergers & Acquisitions /Private Equity
• Real Estate
• Tax
Chambers & Partners ranks NCTM as a top-tier performer in more than 12 practices.
External links
Chambers and Partners
Legal Week
The Lawyer
Financial Times
Official Site