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As a business operating in today’s increasingly regulated markets, you need to manage your commercial risk while achieving your business objectives.  Sector-specific contractual arrangements are key to this, wherever you operate. With over 350 lawyers across 34 countries, CMS’ commercial multi-disciplinary team is trained to understand the business variations impacting your commercial arrangements.

In Italy, our team is composed of professionals which focus, inter alia, on the drafting, negotiation and the management of commercial agreements and can help you in handling complex problems and in finding the best possible solutions. 

We organise our teams around sectors and industries relevant to you. Our professionals have a specific expertise and knowledge in the single areas of law including: financial services, manufacturing, automotive, consumer products, energy, hotels and leisure, infrastructure and projects, lifesciences, publishing, real estate and construction, technology, telecoms, media and sports.

Whether you require advice in Italy or abroad in relation to commercial contracts, supply services, e-commerce, IT or telecoms agreements, data protection, design and manufacturing, advertising, sponsorship and marketing, consumer sales, software licensing, outsourcing or sales, agency, distribution and franchise agreements, our specialists can guide you towards the best business outcome for you. In addition to this, our professionals have matured a specific experience in the resolution of issues and for the litigation procedures relating to these contracts.


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08/09/2021
Com­mer­cial rent pay­ments in Italy
1. Gen­er­al over­view To date, we have lis­ted sev­er­al de­cisions re­lat­ing to this is­sue.The pro­ceed­ings were mainly sum­mary pro­ceed­ings. A few de­cisions are de­cisions on the mer­its of the case (some be­ing...
Expert Guide Commercial
31/08/2021
Re­ima­gin­ing Trans­port: Hy­dro­gen Trains
In the first in our Re­ima­gin­ing Trans­port series, we look at the po­ten­tial for hy­dro­gen powered trains to be­come a part of the rail net­work’s move to net-zero. Already in op­er­a­tion in se­lect rail lines...
Law-Now Energy & Climate Change
23/07/2021
Fit for 55: A new cli­mate pack­age
On 14 Ju­ly 2021, the European Com­mis­sion pub­lished the largest le­gis­lat­ive pack­age re­lated to the cli­mate and en­ergy: “Fit for 55”. The main as­sump­tion of the new pack­age is a re­duc­tion of 55% in...
Law-Now Real Estate
23/07/2021
GDPR 3 years on – The greatest hits (and misses)
More than three years have passed since the GDPR ap­plied and a lot has happened in the world of data pro­tec­tion dur­ing that time – fines, class ac­tions, court chal­lenges and more. We give our “playl­ist”...
Law-Now GDPR
15/07/2021
European Com­mis­sion pub­lished drafts of the re­vised Ver­tic­al Block Ex­emp­tion...
On 9 Ju­ly, the European Com­mis­sion pub­lished its draft re­vised Ver­tic­al Block Ex­emp­tion Reg­u­la­tion (VBER) and the cor­res­pond­ing Ver­tic­al Guidelines. The VBER con­cerns ver­tic­al agree­ments, which are agree­ments...
Law-Now Commercial
16/06/2021
EDPB ap­proves first EU GDPR Code of Con­duct for Cloud Ser­vice Pro­viders
Fol­low­ing the sub­mis­sion by the Bel­gian Data Pro­tec­tion Au­thor­ity, on May 19 the European Data Pro­tec­tion Board (EDPB) ap­proved the EU Cloud Code of Con­duct with sub­sequent fi­nal ap­prov­al by the Bel­gian...
Law-Now GDPR
15/06/2021
New GDPR Code of Con­duct ap­proved for Cloud In­fra­struc­ture Ser­vice Pro­viders
The European Data Pro­tec­tion Board (EDPB) and the French Data Pro­tec­tion Au­thor­ity (CNIL) ap­proved the CISPE Data Pro­tec­tion Code of Con­duct of Cloud In­fra­struc­ture Ser­vice Pro­viders in Europe (CISPE...
Law-Now GDPR
11/06/2021
EDPB is­sues Re­com­mend­a­tion on cred­it card data stor­age for one-click pay­ments
The European Data Pro­tec­tion Board (EDPB) has ad­op­ted a new re­com­mend­a­tion on the leg­al basis for the stor­age of cred­it card data by e-com­merce mer­chants for the pur­pose of one-click pay­ment of fur­ther...
Law-Now GDPR
08/06/2021
Trade secrets in Italy
Gen­er­al 1. Has the Dir­ect­ive (EU) 2016/943 of the European Par­lia­ment and of the Coun­cil of 8 June 2016 on the pro­tec­tion of un­dis­closed know-how and busi­ness in­form­a­tion (trade secrets) against their...
Expert Guide Intellectual Property
Comparable
08/06/2021
European Com­mis­sion moves ahead with pro­posed 'Data Act' reg­u­lat­ing ac­cess...
On 28 May, the European Com­mis­sion launched an ini­tial con­sulta­tion on its plans for a ‘Data Act’, which would – if ad­op­ted – in­tro­duce rules for ac­cess to and use of data, both in busi­ness-to...
Law-Now GDPR
01/06/2021
Some leaks can­'t be fixed
“Con­fid­en­tial in­form­a­tion is like an ice cube... give it to the party who has no re­fri­ger­at­or or will not agree to keep it in one, and by the time of the tri­al you have just a pool of wa­ter.” This...
Law-Now Coronavirus (COVID-19)
01/06/2021
First in­sect product gran­ted nov­el food ap­prov­al in the EU
On 3 May 2021, the European Com­mis­sion’s Stand­ing Com­mit­tee on Plants, An­im­als, Food and Feed (“PAFF Com­mit­tee”) voted in fa­vour of a draft leg­al act au­thor­ising dried yel­low meal­worm to be placed...
Law-Now Consumer Products
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