Maria Cristina Franchini is a co-founding partner of De Berti Jacchia Franchini Forlani and head of the litigation team.
Previously, she spent a teaching period at Genoa State University, and worked at Studio Graziadei, then the leading international law firm in Italy.
Maria Cristina’s areas of concentration are domestic and cross-border litigation, private international law, IP law and litigation, licensing and commercial.
In the recent years, Maria Cristina masterminded the defense of various patented active principles belonging to Big Pharma multinationals, as well as of renowned luxury and fashion brands.
She has been in charge of a number of multi-jurisdiction litigations in contractual, insurance and corporate cases.
She is familiar with criminal and public law aspects, and has developed proven skills of multidisciplinary work in coordination with criminal and administrative law counsels, foreign lawyers, forensic economists, experts and consultants.
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De Berti Jacchia, con un team composto dai partner Roberto A. Jacchia, Maria Cristina Franchini e Silvia Doria, ha assistito vittoriosamente dinanzi alla Corte d’Appello di Roma Merck Sharp & Dohme Italia e Merck Canada Inc. (MSD) in una causa che le vedeva contrapposte a Teva Italia Srl, ed alla sua controllante israeliana Teva Pharmaceuticals Ltd.
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Nel corso dell’evento annuale dell’Associazione di Studi Legali Associati, ASLA Women ha conferito allo studio De Berti Jacchia Franchini Forlani il neo-istituito premio ASLA Women Pari Opportunità.
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Nel corso dell’evento annuale dell’Associazione di Studi Legali Associati, ASLA Women ha conferito allo studio De Berti Jacchia Franchini Forlani il neo-istituito premio ASLA Women Pari Opportunità.
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Assisting and representing on continuous basis the Italian subsidiary of the worldwide leading supplier of IT services for the travel and tourism markets, in various contentious cases in the Milan Court, including a dispute related to claims raised on several agreements for the supply of a multifunctional platform. Complex technical IT issues are being dealt with in the instruction phase of the proceedings. Attachment proceedings are pending (amongst others, on trademarks owned by the counterparty).
Practices
Litigation
Industries
IT&TMT
Assisting and representing a major project engineering company, belonging to a Group, in proceedings related to projects supplied for the realization of the new Stadium of the Rome Football Team. The litigation started with an ex parte order of payment obtained against the general contractor. Merit proceedings are pending.
Practices
Litigation
Industries
Costruction
Representing a major Taiwanese company quoted on the Taiwan Stock Exchange, which operates in the solar power industry. The dispute involves parallel court proceedings in Italy, Luxembourg and Taiwan and international commercial arbitration proceedings in Singapore under the Singapore International Arbitration Centre Rules.
The subject matter of the dispute arises out of joint venture agreements entered into by the Taiwanese company and two other partners (a Singapore company and a Taiwanese company) and the control of the Italian subsidiary companies which own a number of photovoltaic plants. Central questions concern the jurisdiction of the arbitral tribunal and of the courts, the validity of a capital increase carried out by a Singapore holding in Luxembourg and the control of the Italian subsidiaries as a consequence, and the recovery of significant investments made by the Taiwanese company into the joint venture.
The proceedings cover a broad range of legal areas, including the validity and efficacy of agreements governed by different laws, the existence of alleged forged documents, the validity of corporate resolutions under different laws, relationships between arbitral and ordinary jurisdiction and procedural aspects. The Italian litigation has given rise to interim provisional remedies and complex enforcement proceedings, including the garnishment of future income.
The interim provisional measures obtained by the Firm have been confirmed by final judgments on the merits.
Practices
Litigation
Industries
Energy and Environment
Assisting and representing the Italian subsidiary of a leading Swedish supplier of automatic doors, in a dispute involving damages allegedly caused to a person while passing through a revolving door. Several technical and medical issues are being dealt with in the instruction phase of the proceedings.
Practices
Litigation
Industries
Industrial Products and Equipment
Assisting and representing for many decades a leading US Big-Pharma multinational in enforcing its patents and defending its active principles in Italy, amongst others, in various contentious cases in the Rome and Milan IP Courts, including a) participating in the settlement of a multi-jurisdiction case (a monoclonal antibody for the treatment of certain types of cancer) (b) + (c) two new cases in first instance (a cholesterolaemic medicine and a contraceptive device) and (d) an appellate case (a respiratory medicine) commenced in 2016.
Practices
Intellectual Property
Industries
Pharmaceuticals and Life Sciences
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Represented for many decades a leading UK/US Big Pharma multinational in defending its patents and active principles in Italy. There have been cases, inter alia, in the Rome Court of Appeal as an aftermath of a series of patent cases and Supreme Court judgments won in the past against several infringers (of an anti-ulcer patent and active principle). All judgments rendered were favourable to the multinational and other companies belonging to the Group and became final during 2016.
Practices
Intellectual Property
Industries
Pharmaceuticals and Life Sciences
Assisting and representing a Hungarian producer of a famous liqueur, in final settlement negotiations with a German company. The settlement closed a case on the validity of a trademark (reproducing a stag’s head) owned by the producer, which lasted for decades and involved a series of nullity and cancellation proceedings brought by the German company at all levels of jurisdiction, successfully defended on behalf of the Hungarian producer.
Practices
Intellectual Property
Industries
Agri-Food
Titolo della pubblicazione 01
Il Diritto Industriale n. 3/2008, pag. 213
2008
Titolo della pubblicazione 02
Riv. Dir. Int. Priv. Proc., n. 3/2008
2008
