Mario J. Abate

Mario J. Abate is Of Counsel to the Firm and is located principally at the Milano Office, conducting his profession  in connection with the Desk US.

Mario has gained extensive experience in M&A, start ups of businesses in Italy and abroad principally in the field of fashion and luxury, and other forms of business transactions, providing legal advice and assistance to Italian and foreign  clients in out of court dispute settlements  international joint ventures ,and other  transactional matters,   including labor, licensing, Italian and US corporate and commericial law and the establishment of foreing Trusts.

He is a Fellow of the American Bar Association (ABA) as well as the International Bar Association (IBA) and the New York State Bar Association.

Practice Areas

• Corporate and Commercial
• Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Equity

Bar Admissions

• Bar of the State of New York and New Jersey
• Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States
• Bar of the City of Naples (Italy) as practitioner attorney and Notary Public for the State of New Jersey

Education

• Università Federico II di Napoli (Law Degree )
• Georgetown University Law Center (LL. M. in International and Comparative Law, and Third Year JD law student)
• Temple University School of Law, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Juris Doctor)
• Drew University, The College of Liberal Arts – Madison, New Jersey (B.A in Political Science and Spanish Literature)

Languages

• Italian (native speaker)
• English (native speaker)
• Spanish
• French