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Laura Pierallini is the founder and name partner of the Italian aviation law firm Pierallini Studio Legale. She is a professor of tourism and air law at the LUISS University of Rome and adjunct professor at McGill University. Laura has practised aviation law since 1988, providing expert advice to clients across the whole of the international aviation sector, including aircraft finance and leasing; antitrust and regulatory; litigation and dispute resolution; employment; restructuring; M&A and corporate issues. Her clientele includes Italian and foreign airlines, manufacturers, lessors, financiers, airports, handlers and travel agents. She is an independent member of the board of directors of Avio S.p.A., a leading company in the aerospace sector in Italy. Ms. Pierallini is recognised Thought Leader in the aviation section of Thought Leaders –Global Elite (2018- 2026) and is recommended as a leading lawyer in the regulatory, contentious and finance sub-chapters of the aviation section of Lexology: Transport. She has been recognized as a 2026 Thomson Reuters Stand-Out Lawyer, Best Aviation Lawyer at the Client Choice Awards 2024 and Lawyer of the Year – Aviation at the WWL Awards 2024. She has been consistently shortlisted for Best Aviation Lawyer at the Europe Women in Business Law Awards. She has been named Italian lawyer of the year in Aviation Finance at Legal Community Finance Awards 2025 and Thought Leader at the LC Italian Awards 2026. Laura regularly participates in conferences on aviation, delivering speeches and moderating panels at various Italian and international symposia, in particular those organised by IATA, IBA, EALA; WALA and EBAA. She organises annual conferences on air law in Rome, attracting international experts, jurists and operators. Laura is aviation committee member of the International Bar Association (IBA), advisory committee member of the Worldwide Airports Law Association (WALA), committee member of the European Air Law Association (EALA), member of Aviation Working Group – Cape Town Convention (AWG) and a member of the International Aviation Women’s Association (IAWA). She is the author of many national and international publications on aviation, tourism and commercial law.