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Biography

Filippo collaborated with the Chair of Criminal Procedural Law at the Catholic University in Milan, where he has been Criminal Procedure Expert (cultore della materia). He regularly participates, either as speaker or as a chairman, in many Italian and International seminars and conferences focused on topics relevant to the white-collar crimes area. Filippo collaborates with the UK law journal The Company Lawyer. Filippo is a long-standing member of the International Bar Association, where he currently is Senior Vice-Chair of the Business Crime Committee. Since 2017, he has the privilege to attend, as speaker, the Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime. After almost ten years of practice in business crime, in 2017 he became partner of Cagnola & Associati Law Firm. Filippo is a trial lawyer who provides legal assistance to individuals and multinational companies throughout all the Italian territory and has worked on most prominent criminal cases in the white-collar crimes area, dealing with long and complex Court proceedings. He practices in the whole area of Corporate Criminal Law both in litigations and advisory activities, and has represented executives , businessmen and sport celebrities, as well as legal entities under Law 231/01 (corporate liability in Italy). He also leads internal investigations, often cross-border. Filippo provides proactive compliance counselling to his clients and has deep experience in matters involving corruption, fraud, insolvency, money laundering, tax evasion, health and safety violations, environmental crimes and disasters. He is used to work on cases that involve parallel investigations in Italy and overseas, and often works closely with lawyers based in other jurisdictions. His experience includes advice and representation for those facing requests for mutual legal assistance and he has successfully managed very delicate extradition cases. He acted has expert witness in foreign jurisdictions.