Partner
Massimo joined the Firm in 2005 and has been a partner since 2008.
He previously practised at the Milan office of Baker & McKenzie (2000-2005), where he was also a visiting lawyer in the Sydney office (July-October 2000), advising some of the most important multinationals in the pharmaceutical, environment, procurement and town planning sectors, also in relation to major M&A operations.
Prior to this, he was a trainee lawyer (1997-2000) with a well known Milan law firm specialising in Administrative Law (Tanzarella), working mainly on Environmental, Procurement, Planning and Commercial Law.
After Classical High School, Massimo Colicchia obtained a Law Degree from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan (1996-1997 academic year), with a dissertation on the adversarial principle in informal arbitration. In 2003 he obtained a Master of Laws (LLM) degree in European Law from King’s College, London, with a dissertation on the Golden Share.
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