Banking and Financial Intermediaries Law

Giorgio Tarzia e Associati is one of the most popular and valued Italian law firms in banking and financial intermediaries’ law.

Among others, the Firm expertise includes the following:

• assisting banks, both in judicial and out-of-court proceedings, in all those issues relating to the execution of the banking and credit activity
• assisting and providing legal advice to intermediaries in all disputes concerning the placement of financial instruments on the market
• advising banks and intermediaries in setting up the most suitable instruments to ensure the compliance with the regulation in force.

Giorgio Tarzia e Associati relies on a network of lawyers and counsels enabling the very same level of professionalism in the assistance to clients all over Italy.

The Firm provides assistance and legal advice in all those matters related to banking and credit activities, such as:

• the validity of contractual terms (interest, charges and further fees and additional)
• authorization of credit to clients in all its forms and conditions
• the creation of security interests and guarantees, typical and atypical, ancillary or autonomous (mortgages, pledges, assignments of credit, mandate in rem propriam, guarantees, first-demand guarantees, patronage letters, etc.)
• enforcement of security interests and guarantees, typical and atypical, ancillary or autonomous, both on the lending bank side and the guarantor bank side.
• the various sorts of actions to protect the bank’s claims (credit recovery, seizure and other precautionary measures, enforcement, simulation actions and claw-back of acts of debtors and guarantors assets dispersion).
• the drafting and update of banking contracts in compliance with the current laws and regulations aimed at reducing disputes against credit institutions.
• the negotiation of credit instruments of both in order and bearer form.

Giorgio Tarzia e Associati developed over the years a remarkable experience in the placement of financial instruments on the market. In particular, over the last years the Firm has been assisting and advising financial intermediaries:

• in the placement of saving and investments instruments (shares, obligations, policies, etc.) with their customers and possible litigations
• liaising with customers about financial instruments, including derivatives, and possible litigations.