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Studio Legale Pisano is an Italian boutique firm that specialises in all areas of white-collar crime. The firm specialises in transnational investigations and related aspects of mutual legal assistance and extradition. Studio Legale Pisano benefits from the expertise of specialists in criminal and international law, and interacts daily with counsel of various jurisdictions. The firm has a history of representing prominent individuals and entities in high-profile Italian criminal proceedings. Roberto Pisano founded Studio legale Pisano in 2007, and he is the managing partner of the firm; he obtained a law degree, summa cum laude, from the State University of Milan in 1992, and a Ph.D. from the University of Genoa in 1999. Between 1993 and 1997, he was a research associate at Bocconi University of Milan where, since then, he has worked for many years as a contract professor on business and tax crimes. Mr Pisano was co-chair of the business crime committee of the IBA in 2007 and 2008, and vice-chair of the ECBA in 2008 and 2009. He is the author of several publications on the subject of business crime and mutual legal assistance, including: Tax Crimes (Cedam, 2002, co-author); Criminal Responsibility from Asbestos (Giuffré, 2003, contributor); The Relations Between Domestic Law, Treaty Law and EC Law (Egea, 1995); ‘EU arrest warrant in action’ (in European Lawyer, 2005, co-author); and The Illegal Performance of Financial Intermediation (Cedam, 2007, contributor). In the course of his practice, Mr Pisano has successfully represented prominent individuals and entities in high-profile Italian criminal proceedings with media impact, including: three cases of alleged international tax fraud involving the former Italian Prime Minister (with searches and seizure in the US and Hong Kong and freezing of funds in Switzerland); various cases of corruption involving international corporations and their top managers (with multiple investigations in the US, UK, France, Nigeria, Algeria etc.); various cases of extradition, including the FIFA investigation by the US authorities and representation of foreign States; a case involving a major US bank in the bankruptcy of the Parmalat group; a case against a top manager of a UK telecommunication group in relation to the false accounting of its Italian subsidiary; various claims for restitution of antiquities and paintings by the Italian Ministry of Culture against a prominent US museum and a UK art gallery; various cases of internal investigations for international corporations, with strategical advice about self-reporting, remediation plans, etc. Mr Pisano also advises and represents relevant foreign governments, on issues of international criminal law and in extradition proceedings, and a prestigious UK academic institution in relation to an Italian parliamentary inquiry.