Our Professionals
Stefano Macchi di Cellere - Partner
Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales. Lawyer of the Court of Justice of the European Union. Avvocato of the Italian Supreme Court of Cassation. Admitted to Italian Bar in 1993. Member of the Milan Bar.
Law degree at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”(J.D.) in 1990; Academy of American and International Law, Institute for International and Comparative Law, Dallas, Texas; Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. (U.S. Law Course); Italian Association European Jurists (EC Law course); King’s College London (LL.M.).
Member of the Law Society of England and Wales, the International Bar Association (IBA), the American Bar Association, the Inter-Pacific Bar Association (Council Member and Chair of the Aerospace Committee 1998-2000, Vice Chair 1996-1998), and the Alumni Association of the Academy of American and International Law (Deputy Secretary General 1990-1991). Advisory Board Member Pro Bono Italia ETS (Vice President 2017-2025).
Andrea Gangemi - Partner
Admitted to Italian Bar in 2006. Member of the Rome Bar. Registered Foreign Lawyer with the Solicitors Regulation Authority.
Ph.D. in civil law at Università degli Studi di Roma Tre in 2009; Law degree magna cum laude at Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza” in 2006. Exchange student and visiting student at Philipps Universität in Marburg (Germany) and at Université Paris Descartes (France). Assistant to the chair of private and civil law at Università degli Studi di Roma Tre.
Member of the International Bar Association (IBA). Member of the Association for cultural exchanges between Italian and German jurists.
Arcangelo D’Apolito - Partner
Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales since 2008. Admitted in Italy as Dottore Commercialista e Revisore Legale in 2006.
Law and Economics degree at the University of Milan (2002). LL.M. at King’s College London (2015).
Tax practitioner with over 20 years of experience in London and Milan, advising private capital managers on fund structuring, M&A cross-border transactions, equity ownership arrangements, carried interest, co-investment structures, and private wealth structuring. Awarded the "Freedom of the City of London" and membership in the Worshipful Company of International Bankers (WCIB) in 2016.
Pietro Marangoni - Associate
Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales. Enrolled in the Special Register of Trainees of the Milan Bar.
Law degree at the University of Bologna in 2022. LL.M. in Intellectual and Information Law at King’s College London in 2021.
Paolo Lazzeretti - Of Counsel
Admitted to Italian Bar in 2005. Member of the Lucca Bar.
Law degree at the University of Pisa in 2002. LL.M Master Degree in Maritime Law at the University of Southampton (carriage of good by sea, international trade, marine insurance) in 2005. He collaborated as lecturer with the Department of Italian Civil Procedure Law of the University of Pisa in 2002-2003.
Member of the Italian Maritime Law Association (AIDIM) and of the British Italian Law Association (BILA).
Francesco Bentivegna - Of Counsel
Admitted to Italian bar in 1977. Member of the Milan Bar.
Law Degree at the University of Palermo, Summa cum Laude, in 1973. Admitted to the Institute for International Political Studies – ISPI – Milan, 1976. Academy of American and International Law, Dallas, Texas, 1981.
Member of the British – Kazakh Society (2011), British – Azeri Law Association (2013), Russian and CIS Arbitration Network (RCAN) (2013), London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA (2015), London Maritime Arbitrators Association (LMAA) (2017), Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (CRCICA) (2018), Scottish Arbitration Centre (SAC) (2018), Czech Arbitration Court (CAC) (2019), Dubai International Arbitration Centre (DIAC (2019).