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Biography

In 2007 Roberto Pisano founded Studio Legale Pisano, a boutique firm which specialises in all areas of white-collar crime and in complex transnational cases. In 2025 the firm moved into new offices and was renamed PisanoLaw. Mr Pisano is the managing partner of PisanoLaw. Mr Pisano obtained a law degree, summa cum laude, from the State University of Milan in 1992, and a Ph.D. in international tax fraud from the University of Genoa in 1999. Between 1993 and 1997, he was a research associate at Bocconi University of Milan where, since then, he has worked for many years as a contract professor on business and tax crimes. Mr Pisano was co-chair of the business crime committee of the IBA in 2007 and 2008, and vice-chair of the ECBA in 2008 and 2009. He is the author of several publications on the subject of business crime, mutual legal assistance and extradition. In over 25 years of practice, Mr Pisano has successfully represented prominent individuals and entities in high-profile Italian criminal proceedings with media impact, including: three cases of alleged tax fraud involving the former Italian prime minister (with searches and seizure in the US and Hong Kong and freezing of funds in Switzerland); various cases of corruption involving international corporations and their top managers (with multiple investigations in the US, UK, France, Nigeria, Algeria, etc.); various cases of extradition, including the FIFA investigation by the US authorities and representation of foreign States; a case involving a major US bank in the bankruptcy of the Parmalat group; a case involving a top manager of a UK telecommunications group in the false accounting of its Italian subsidiary; a case involving a prestigious UK academic institution in relation to an Italian parliamentary inquiry; various claims for restitution of antiquities and paintings by the Italian Ministry of Culture against a prominent US museum and a UK art gallery; a case alleging multiple homicide of employees of a multinational company manufacturing hazardous products; various cases of fraud involving the Italian and Swiss subsidiaries of a Russian energy group and its managers; various cases of internal investigations for listed international corporations, including for the Dieselgate, with strategical advice about self-reporting, remediation plans, etc. Mr Pisano also advises and represents relevant foreign governments.