Gianni Origoni Grippo & Partners has named a new managing partner as 85 departing lawyers break off from the Italian leader to form a new independent firm practising as Legance.
Rome-based M&A lawyer Tomaso Cenci has been confirmed as the new managing partner of Gianni Origoni, which still has around 250 lawyers.
Cenci, who headed the firm's New York office between 2000 and 2004, will lead an executive committee that also includes Milan-based M&A partners Gianluca Ghersini and Ottaviano Sanseverino as well as Rome real estate partner Domenico Tulli and City banking partner Marco Amedeo Zaccagnini.
