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Biography

Antonia Verna is a partner of the firm which joined in 2008. She has more than 20 years of experience assisting Italian and foreign clients mostly in mergers and acquisitions, joint venture agreements and venture capital operations. Antonia is a regular speaker at conferences and seminars on venture capital investments and startups. Antonia has authored various articles on the above subject matters, which have appeared in a number of newsletters and online magazines. She acts as mentor for some startup programs such as those organized by Unicredit StartLab, Bheroes, Zcube e Endeavour. She is an active member of the International Bar Association (IBA) being part of the organizing committee of the IBA Startup Annual Conference. She is also member of the European Women Lawyers Association (EWLA) where she has been entrusted with the role of treasurer and she is in charge of a startups program aimed at supporting female entrepreneurs around Europe.