Taylor Wessing Announces Strategic Alliance With Orsingher Ortu
The alliance marks a trend for Taylor Wessing to expand its reach substantially, rather than incrementally;
Taylor Wessing Announces Strategic Alliance With Orsingher Ortu
The alliance marks a trend for Taylor Wessing to expand its reach substantially, rather than incrementally
Taylor Wessing has announced a strategic alliance with Italian law firm, Orsingher Ortu.
The firm has 17 senior partners and 12 junior partners, and offices in Rome and Milan, and services clients such as Omega Pharma, Thought Machine, Innishboffin, and Banca Etica.
The alliance enhances Taylor Wessing’s offering in key practice areas such as corporate/M&A which is Orsingher Ortu’s most prominent department having 12 partners, disputes, and IP and regulation.
The fourth-largest European economy, Italy, offers client opportunities in core sectors such as TMT, life sciences and healthcare, private wealth and real estate, as well as infrastructure and energy.
Orsingher Ortu was founded in 2007 and has evolved from an IP, media and technology boutique into a full-service law firm. Recently in December 2024, the Italian law firm added a seven-lawyer Italian life sciences team led by Francesco Setti and Stefano Giberti from Franzosi Del Negro Setti.
Shane Gleghorn, Taylor Wessing’s global co-chair, hailed the company’s ‘exciting partnership’ with the Italian law firm, which he said was based on shared long-term commitments to clients across Europe and beyond, while his German counterpart, Oliver Bertram, said that the firm looked forward to developing their respective client relationships while nurturing strong bilateral connections.
Orsingher Ortu's Managing Partner, Matteo Orsingher, reportedly said: "We are honoured that Taylor Wessing has chosen us as its partner for Italy: this confirms our positioning in strategic areas and industrial fields of great importance and offers us new growth opportunities.”
The alliance continues the trend of Taylor Wessing expanding its reach substantially, rather than incrementally. In 2021, it hired an 11-lawyer London private client team from BCLP alongside a 10-lawyer team from Deloitte Legal in Poland the same year.
