Barbara Schiavo

Barbara has 20 years’ expertise in the Bankruptcy sector.

She is a member of the Restructuring & Insolvency team in Italy and her expertise focuses on business crisis.

As an expert in insolvency law, she advises on corporate restructuring operations, using the variety of restructuring tools available under Italian legislation and including business continuity arrangements, liquidation arrangements with creditors, rationalisation and restructuring programmes, and settlements with the tax authority.

She also deals with bankruptcy liability actions against directors and auditors, applications to prove debts in bankruptcy proceedings, oppositions and bankruptcy petitions. She advises receivers in appointments by the Court in relation to the liability of directors and auditors, debt collection procedures and appeals.

Barbara’s recent work includes operations in the industrial, energy, real estate, logistics, publishing and retail sectors.

She graduated in 1999 from the University of Milan, qualified in 2004, was admitted to the Bar in 2005 and in 2019 was granted rights of audience before the Supreme Court. In 2022 she also qualified as a negotiated settlement expert (Iscritta nell'elenco degli esperti della composizione negoziata della crisi).  In 2023 she was also registered on the Role of official receivers (Albo dei soggetti incaricati dall'autorità giudiziaria delle funzioni di gestione e di controllo nelle procedure di cui al codice della crisi e dell'insolvenza).

Preliminary observations on Law Decree dated 8 April 2020, no. 23 ‘Decreto Liquidità’ – The impact of Covid-19 on insolvency proceedings (Read more)

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