The Firm’s lawyers consistently hold key roles in the Italian market for financial derivatives. The team stands out for its particular ability to combine great sensitivity in structuring all kinds of transactions, from equity derivatives to credit derivatives, from interest rate derivatives connected with financing transactions, to energy and other commodity derivatives. It has an uncommon grasp of the complex regulatory features of each of these classes of financial products, including EMIR rules on margins and clearing, market abuse rules, MiFID II/MIFIR, shareholder disclosing obligations. Over the last 15 years the Firm has also acted for major international and Italian financial institutions on the most prominent Italian civil lawsuits involving derivatives products. These have frequently culminated in complex settlement arrangements, where the Firm’s detailed understanding of the underlying products and of the various contractual dynamics has provided clients with significant added value.