Gianni Forlani is a co-founding partner of De Berti Jacchia Franchini Forlani and deals mainly with corporate law and M&A both at domestic and international level as well as with tax and regulatory aspects relating thereto.
Gianni has broad experience of negotiation and advises clients on private M&A, disposals, demergers, joint ventures, restructurings and regulatory compliance, with a particular focus on complex, cross-border transactions.
He holds professional appointments in important companies both as Director and as fully qualified Legal Auditor.
He also developed a long and deep expertise in real estate and retailing, namely as shopping centers are concerned.
In the recent years, Gianni has assisted and supported leading domestic and multi-national clients on company law and corporate governance.
He also is frequently involved in litigations in the areas of his expertise.
Gianni has an in-depth knowledge of the industries sectors of the clients he has assisted for many years, including waste recovery and recycling (Italian recovery and recycling aluminum consortium created and active under European legislation and leading French company in the area active world-wide), retail (leading world-wide furniture and, of design company Swedish origin).
He has been regularly mentioned since many years on Legal500 in the Corporate and M&A practice and the Real Estate practice.
He is a member of the Managing Board and Executive Committee of ASLA, the association of the largest law firms in Italy, the representative of the Firm in the International Attorneys’ Club (IAC) and an active member of the International Bar Association (IBA).
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Milan
November 19th, 2019
Gianni Forlani
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Milan
April 9th, 2018
Gianni Forlani
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Milan
November 26th, 2015
Gianni Forlani, Guido Callegari
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Il Consiglio di Stato ha accolto il ricorso del Consorzio Imballaggi Alluminio (CIAL) proposto contro il decreto adottato nel 2013 dal Ministero dell’Ambiente di concerto con il Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico che approvava lo schema tipo che ciascun Consorzio costituito per la gestione dei singoli imballaggi avrebbe dovuto adottare entro una data prefissata.
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Rome
November 22nd, 2013
Gianni Forlani
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Lo Studio Legale De Berti Jacchia Franchini Forlani ha assistito il gruppo francese Malteurop nell'acquisizione della società Diamalteria Italiana S.r.l., con stabilimento a Darfo Boario, in provincia di Brescia, e specializzata nella produzione di estratto di malto e farina di malto destinati ai mercati alimentari.
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Assisting a major French company operating worldwide in environmental services in the restructuring of its Italian network of companies as well as in a multiple party high value litigation originated from the non-performance of a preliminary share purchase agreement to acquire a business constituted by large waste sites, involving complex issues of corporate, contractual, environmental and civil law and connected to criminal trials and administrative proceedings.
Practices
Contractual Law
Corporate and Commercial
Energy and Environment
Industries
Real Estate and Retail

Regularly assisting a national consortium for the development of urban aluminum recycling centers in relation to its activities under European and Italian corporate and administrative laws and regulations.
Practices
Corporate and Commercial
Industries
Energy and Environment

Regularly assisting a world’s famous consumer furniture and household goods company since the opening of their first store in Italy in the early 1980’s, working with the Italian subsidiaries and other non-Italian affiliates, assisting them on issues of building of new stores and real estate retail, as well as a variety of corporate issues connected to the operations of their stores.
Practices
Real Estate and Retail
Industries
Consumer Goods

Regularly assisting the Italian subsidiary of a major US company providing metal packaging for beverages, foods and household products in corporate issues.
Practices
Real Estate and Retail
Industries
Consumer Goods
Le régime fiscal introduit par la Loi de Finances 2017 sur les revenus produits à l’étranger par les personnes physiques qui transfèrent leur résidence fiscale en Italie
FORLANI G.
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April 18th, 2017

Corporate Taxation in the European Union
FORLANI G.
Business Monitor
1995

Fiscal Harmonization in the European Union
FORLANI G.
International Tax Planning, Kluwer
1995