Rita Gismondi, Counsel, Gianni & Origoni (Italy)

Formerly an Associate at Delfino e Associati – Willkie Farr & Gallagher, Rita joined the Italian law firm Gianni & Origoni (Rome office) in 2004, providing advice and assistance in relation to any civil and commercial litigation, as well as restructuring remedies and insolvency proceedings.

Rita has gained a deep and significant experience in company crisis and turnaround, reorganization and insolvency legal tools, including relevant litigation proceedings. She handled important insolvency proceedings and restructuring transactions, also in connection with the main extraordinary administration proceedings for large insolvent companies (such as Parmalat and Alitalia).

Rita advises domestic and foreign clients, either from debtor’s side, or from creditors’ side, in the framework of different businesses and sectors (e.g. industrial, banking, aviation, telecommunication, food, health, retail and fashion), with focus on any distress or crisis situations in which a restructuring, reorganization or insolvency legal tool is required, also in connection with cross-border insolvency issues.

A member of the INSOL Europe Council and Co-Chair of the IWIRC European Network, Rita is also Fellow of INSOL International.

Graduated in Law "maxima cum laude" from the University LUISS Guido Carli, with special focus on corporate and insolvency law, Rita is author of various publications and articles in corporate and insolvency law. Rita regularly speaks at conferences and seminars and she is recommended from the directory Who’s Who Legal for restructuring and insolvency.

Rita is a member of the Rome Bar Association and she has been admitted to practice also before the Italian Supreme Court. She speaks Italian and English.