Gabriella Covino specialises in private M&A, corporate and commercial law and joint ventures. She advises domestic and multinational companies in significant acquisition transactions with a focus on drafting and negotiating joint ventures agreements, shareholders’ agreements and commercial agreements.

Gabriella graduated in Law maxima cum laude from the University LUISS “Guido Carli” of Rome. She also holds a Business Law Degree from U.C.L.A. and an M.J.C. from New York University School of Law.

Gabriella joined the firm in 1995 and in 2004 was made partner; in addition she has worked as an international associate at a US firm in Paris after having worked for several years at the Rome office of a leading US law firm. She has also cooperated with IRI – Istituto per la Ricostruzione Industriale S.p.A. in connection with major privatizations.

She is a member of the Italian Bar as well as the New York State Bar.

She is currently Senior Vice Chair of the Corporate and M&A Law Committee and member of the Constitution and Governance Committee of the International Bar Association (IBA). She is also Vice President of Banca del Fucino.

In 2021 Gabriella received the award “Lawyer of the Year” at the TopLegal Awards for “Strength and merit symbol. A guarantee for the firm and its clients”, and in 2012 the award “Lawyer of the Year - Restructuring” at the Top Legal Awards “for having managed complex and multifaceted cases, of great strategic importance for the market”.

She speaks Italian and English.

Bar Admissions

• ROME Bar (Italy)
• NEW YORK Bar

Education

• University LUISS "Guido Carli" of Rome
• University of California "UCLA", Business Law Program
• New York University, Master in "Comparative Jurisprudence"

Significant Accomplishments
1998: International Associate, Sherman & Sterling, Paris.

• New Emergency Measures Adopted after the "Sostegni Decree"

  By Gabriella Covino |April 2021

• COVID-19 - Legal Updates For Employment Law: The "Sostegni" Decree

  By Gabriella Covino |March 2021

• Covid-19 Legal Updates for Employment Law: The Conversion into Law of the August Decree and the "Ristori" Decree

  By Gabriella Covino |December 2020