Mandatory Certified E-mail (PEC) for Company Directors: What Changes in 2025?
Italian companies and directors are very familiar with PEC. This acronym literally means posta elettronica certificata, certified email. In the next …
The Hidden Cost of Greenwashing: when Sustainability Misleads a Logistics Giant
The focus on environmental issues pushes companies to market products as eco-friendly, often leading to misleading claims. What is the risk …
Retail Real Estate Trends XI Edition: Sustainability as a Competitive Advantage
On February 26, the Retail Real Estate Trends, now in its 11th edition, once again proved to be a key gathering …
The Municipality of Milan introduces New Rules for Food and Beverage Activities
The City of Milan, with resolution no. 32 of May 6, 2024, approved a new discipline for food and beverage activities …
Commercial Agents in Italian Law: the Obligation Not to Compete After Contract Termination
Contracts with commercial agents often include “post contractual non competition clauses”, also known as “restraint of trade clauses”. These clauses restrict …
EUDR: Key Considerations for Companies dealing with Multiple Suppliers awaiting Implementation Delay
The recently adopted Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 marks a significant step towards fighting deforestation and promoting sustainable supply chains within the European …
EU General Court rulings on the Prohibition of Legal Advisory Services to Russia
On October 2, the EU General Court issued three significant rulings concerning the prohibition of providing legal advisory services to the …
Applicable Law to the Set-offs of the Claims in European Union Insolvency Proceedings
The transnational insolvency proceedings often bring to the forefront the complex issue of the setoffs: a legal rule allowing the parties, …
Does inaction or delay in enforcing a right mean that the holder has waived that same right?
Is the German principle of “Verwirkung” applicable in Italian law? In a recent Supreme Court decision concerning lease agreements, the Italian judges addressed the issue of inactivity in enforcing a right and clarified to what extent the delay in enforcing a right may give rise to a reasonable expectation on the other party that the right has been waived by its holder and, therefore, whether there could be a breach of the “good faith” clause if the right is enforced with delay by its holder.
Many ways to terminate a contract under Italian law: how not to get lost in translation
Commercial contracts normally include clauses which grant to one or both parties the right to stop the contractual relation, at certain conditions. But terminology may vary from a legal system to another.