Avv. Roberto Antonio Catanzariti

Roberto Antonio Catanzariti is a member of the Cassino Bar, admitted since 1996 and qualified since 2009 to practise before the Court of Cassation and the other higher courts. He practises in Milan, where Legal Aid, the law firm partnership of which he is founding partner and sole director, is based.

His practice is devoted to business criminal law. He assists entrepreneurs, directors, statutory auditors, liquidators, professionals and corporate entities in proceedings for bankruptcy and insolvency offences, tax and social security crimes, corporate crimes, offences against the public administration, money laundering and self-laundering, and in proceedings concerning corporate administrative liability under Legislative Decree 231/2001. He personally handles the precautionary phase, with particular regard to preventive seizures and confiscations, which in economic proceedings often decide the fate of the business before the merits are even reached, and he handles proceedings before the Court of Cassation and, where necessary, applications to the European Court of Human Rights.

His working method stems from the conviction that corporate offences cannot be defended on criminal grounds alone. A bankruptcy charge requires reading the financial statements, the accounts and the management decisions that preceded the insolvency; a tax charge requires engaging with the assessment and its outcome in the tax courts; a charge against a director almost always opens a civil liability front towards the company, its creditors or the insolvency office. The defence is therefore structured from the preliminary investigation in an integrated way, weighing criminal, financial, corporate and reputational consequences together, with the aim — beyond the client's personal position — of business continuity.

His training in insolvency law, with a master's programme for bankruptcy trustees, and in fashion and luxury law, with the master's degree from the Catholic University, underpin two specific areas of the practice: criminal and insolvency litigation arising from judicial liquidation procedures, and the criminal protection of industrial property, counterfeiting and the supply chain. The picture is completed by assistance in proceedings for environmental and workplace safety offences and in extradition and European arrest warrant procedures.

Alongside courtroom defence, he supports companies in criminal risk prevention, in building adequate organisational structures and compliance models, and in managing relations with the judicial authorities and the Financial Police during investigations.