Roberta Crivellaro

Partner | Milan Padua London


Secretary Maria Grazia Sannicandro

 

Track record

Family business reorganizations

Roberta is active in family business reorganizations, regularly assisting prominent Italian families with complex successions and corporate restructuring issues. In addition, she often advises on M&A transactions on behalf of the founders of family businesses.

Italian real estate advice

Roberta is a leading expert in Italian real estate. By way of example, she provides ongoing assistance to an international luxury club and hospitality complex that has invested in new concept hotels in Italy. She is also very active in trophy asset transactions where one of the parties is often a foreign investor.

Wine industry advice

Due to her long-standing experience in the food & beverage sector, with a particular focus on wine, Roberta provides ongoing assistance to some of Italy's most prominent wine producers and organisations. She acts for them in various matters such as M&A, joint ventures, acquisitions of wine estates and a variety of commercial agreements especially in relation to their international activities.

Legal Community

In 2021 Roberta was listed in LegalCommunity's annual rankings of the 50 best business lawyers in Italy, one of only five women.

Talks

Roberta often participates as a leading speaker and moderator in various events and round tables. Amongst her latest featured events and webinars:

  • Lecturer - AIFO's Family Offices Master Programme, 2016 - 2025

  • Chairman of the “Law Firm Symposium 2025 - Law Firms 4.0: Strategies for the New Legal Era” by Global Symposium, 2025

  • ​Event "Family businesses at the challenge of the generational transition: experiences, perspectives and legal innovations", Withers and Banca Generali (2025)

  • Event “Envisioning2035 - Wine (R)evolution: Strategic Plan for Italian Wine”, (2025)

  • Round Table “Building bridges, not walls: reconnecting families, values and visions to preserve and transform the great shared wealth”, Withers and Alti Tiedmann (2025)

  • Lecture ‘Succession planning after the reform of the Consolidated Law on Succession and Donations: novelties and opportunities’ at the Advanced Training Course ‘Generational Transfers and Family Business’, SAF Triveneta and Order of Chartered Accountants (2025)

  • Lecture ‘The family office as a family governance tool’ at the Executive Programme in Family Office Professional, Politecnico di Milano (2025)

  • Lecture ‘Corporate Governance and Generational Transitions’ at the Master in Fasion and Luxury Law, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (2024)

  • Annual conference ‘The Skills Challenge for Family Offices’, Family Office Observatory - Politecnico di Milano (2024)

  • Event “Family businesses: corporate governance and opening to capital: new market instruments”, UBS and Gatti, Pavesi, Bianchi, Ludovici (2024)

  • ‘Presentation of 2023 Family Office report’, Politecnico di Milano (2023)

  • "Wine Calling: Strategies for investing in US wineries," Withers presentation for select Italian clients - January 27, 2022, co-presenter

  • 'Covid-19 and hospitality: challenges and future of the sector', Webinar in partnership with Gianni Origoni Grippo Cappelli & Partners, World Capital, Silver Fir Capital, Currie & Brown and Credit Agricole, May 2020

  • 'Generational succession in Italian SMEs', Webinar in partnership with Milano Notai and Bocconi University, AIDAF, May 2020

  • Ambrosetti - Withers: 'Governance, tutela del patrimonio e continuità generazionale nelle imprese familiari', ('Governance, wealth planning and generation continuity in family business'), Arcugnano (Vicenza, Italy), September 2019

  • 'Facciamo 31': 'Thinking out of the box', September 2019

  • STEP Annual Italy Congress: 'The new vocabulary in Wealth Planning' - 'Family businesses: governance and succession agreements; evolution and proposals' November 2019 (and previous STEP annual congresses)

  • 'Investing in wine estates in the US: opportunities and regulatory considerations', Winetowine (Vinitaly), December 2017

  • 'Conversations on women talent: Withers champions Italy's female professionals', April - May - July 2017

  • Lecturer at the Executive Master on Wine Export Management, organized by Edmund Mach Foundation, May 2017