Corporate criminal lawyers in Milan
A law firm of partners for the criminal defence of entrepreneurs, directors and companies.
A law firm dedicated to corporate criminal law
Legal Aid is a law firm incorporated under Article 4-bis of the Italian legal profession act and dedicated to economic criminal law. The corporate form is not a formality. It reflects the conviction that criminal proceedings arising from business activity cannot be handled by the criminal lawyer alone, because they require reading financial statements and accounting records, reconstructing financial flows and assessing the management decisions challenged by the prosecution. The firm permanently organises these competences around a single person responsible for the defence.
In proceedings for bankruptcy, tax crimes, corporate crimes and administrative liability of entities under Legislative Decree no. 231/2001, the legal classification of the facts almost always depends on the correct reconstruction of the economic facts. For this reason the firm's work starts from the examination of corporate, accounting and tax documentation, continues with the review of the technical reconstructions made by investigators and by the bodies of the insolvency procedure, and leads to a strategy defined from the preliminary investigations onwards, with constant attention to personal and asset-related precautionary measures.
Every engagement is handled personally by a partner lawyer, who defines the strategy, coordinates technical consultants, accountants and authorised investigators and is personally accountable for it, in accordance with the principle of personal performance that the law reserves to professional partners. The client has a single point of contact throughout the entire process, from the preliminary investigations to the proceedings before the Supreme Court.
The criminal defence of a business does not end with the trial. A charge produces effects on assets, on governance, on relations with banks, suppliers and supervisory authorities, and on reputation. The firm assesses these effects alongside the procedural strategy and supports the business in preventing criminal risk, building adequate organisational structures and managing relations with the judicial authorities and the Guardia di Finanza, with business continuity as its objective.
Assistance is provided in compliance with the legal profession act and the code of professional conduct, with clarity on costs, timescales and the limits of the professional obligation, which is one of means and not of result.
The Founders
Avv. Roberto Antonio Catanzariti
Founder and Sole Director
Member of the Cassino Bar since 1996, admitted since 2009 to practise before the Court of Cassation and the higher courts. He also acts before the European Court of Human Rights.
A business crime lawyer for over twenty-five years, he assists entrepreneurs, directors, statutory auditors, liquidators, professionals and companies in proceedings where criminal investigation intersects with corporate, tax, accounting and insolvency issues. He leads the defence from the preliminary investigation to the Court of Cassation, personally handling precautionary measures against both persons and assets, and coordinating the civil and accounting expertise that corporate defence requires.
Areas of practice
Avv. Donatella Conicella
Of Counsel | Legal Aid – Società tra Avvocati S.r.l.
Lawyer of the Cassino Bar, admitted to practise before the Italian Supreme Court and the other higher jurisdictions
A Law graduate of Sapienza University of Rome, she has built her practice in civil and corporate law and litigation, extending it to tax matters and to the criminal law issues arising from the management of a business. She works with Legal Aid as of counsel and handles the civil and corporate dimension of the firm's cases: the reconstruction of relations between shareholders and directors, liability actions, contractual disputes and litigation within insolvency proceedings, with particular attention to proceedings before the Supreme Court.
Areas of practice
The Lawyers
Avv. Antonio Francesco Catanzariti
Of Counsel | Legal Aid – Società tra Avvocati S.r.l.
Lawyer admitted to the bar since 2011, practising at the Milan office
A Law graduate of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Piacenza campus, he trained at a leading criminal law firm and has focused his practice on criminal law from the outset. At Legal Aid he handles proceedings concerning corporate and bankruptcy crimes, tax crimes and crimes against the public administration, covering the entire proceedings from preliminary investigations to trial, and supports the firm in the criminal law areas that complete the defence of a business: workplace safety, the environment, crimes against the administration of justice and reputation protection.
Avv. Luana Bozza
Of Counsel | Legal Aid – Società tra Avvocati S.r.l.
Lawyer of the Milan Bar, admitted to the bar in 2025
A Law graduate with full marks from the University of Milan, with a thesis on substitute sanctions for short prison sentences, she trained at a Milan criminal law firm and at the Bar School of the Milan Bar Association. Of counsel at Legal Aid, she practises at the Milan office and works on the firm's matters on an ongoing basis, while maintaining her own professional practice. She defends suspects and defendants and assists victims, with particular attention to the protection of personal liberty in precautionary proceedings and in extradition and European arrest warrant procedures. She speaks fluent Spanish.
Avv. Luana Simonetti
Of Counsel | Legal Aid – Società tra Avvocati S.r.l.
Lawyer of the Cassino Bar, admitted to the bar since 2009, with an office in Palestrina (Rome)
A criminal lawyer trained at the National School of the Union of Italian Criminal Bar Associations, she has practised criminal law for over fifteen years at every stage of proceedings, from preliminary investigations to trial, appeals and enforcement of sentences. Of counsel at Legal Aid, she works on the firm's matters on an ongoing basis, while maintaining her own professional practice, and handles in particular personal precautionary proceedings, assistance to victims and the enforcement phase, which in business proceedings complete the defence of the entrepreneur and director when a charge affects them personally.
Avv. Marialoreta Corsi
Of Counsel | Legal Aid – Società tra Avvocati S.r.l.
Lawyer of the Cassino Bar, admitted to the bar since 2015
A Law graduate of Sapienza University of Rome, with a thesis in criminal procedure on the means of gathering evidence, and a graduate of the Specialisation School for the Legal Professions of the same university, her criminal law training was completed by the two-year course on technique and ethics of the criminal lawyer of the Union of Criminal Bar Associations. Of counsel at Legal Aid, she works on the firm's matters on an ongoing basis, while maintaining her own professional practice. She handles proceedings for tax, corporate and bankruptcy crimes, analysing tax and accounting documentation, testing the prosecution's reconstructions and drafting opinions and pleadings, with particular attention to seizures and precautionary measures on assets.