THE CHAMBERS
Genoa Chambers is the structure where a group of lawyers and accountants carry on their professional activity, with the purpose of reconciling two apparently conflicting aims: guaranteeing the maximum individuality and autonomy of their profession and, at the same time, taking advantage of the benefits deriving from an exchange of opinions, from collaboration and, when necessary, from team work.

Genoa Chambers was created in 2004, an idea of Avv. Maurizio Dardani, maritime lawyer, and Dott. Paolo Botta, corporate and tax adviser. Avv. Paola Barucco joined at that time after resigning as a partner from a maritime law firm. Avv. Luca Di Marco entered Genoa Chambers from the beginning after having practiced previously for four years with Avv. Maurizio Dardani. Then Avv. Giuseppe Dell’Acqua, corporate and commercial lawyer, became a member by continuing his partnership with Pavia Ansaldo law firm in Milan. During 2006 the group of lawyers was strengthened by the entry of three maritime lawyers, partners of Studi Legali Consociati of Naples, namely Avv. Vittorio Porzio, Avv. Alberto Serino and Avv. Giancarlo Porzio. Thereafter a lawyer of Palermo, Avv. Marco Manzone, and Avv. Lawrence Dardani, who is member of Italian Bar and also barrister of Inner Temple, joined Genoa Chambers to support the team lead by Maurizio Dardani with Luca Di Marco. In the meantime also the team of accountants was reinforced with the entry of two accountants, namely Dott. Giorgia Nobile and Dott. Loredana Damiani.

Every lawyer and accountant appertaining to Genoa Chambers has his own specific experience and expertise, personal and professional characteristics, his own preferences for certain matters rather than for others. Sometimes a specialization in a particular sector of law or economics.

Genoa Chambers derives from the conviction that the only way to perform the profession is the individual relationship between client and single professional and that any form of association, partnership or society of professionals alters such relationship.

Hence, the professionals of Genoa Chambers are not members of an association, nor part of a partnership or a firm, but they are completely independent of each other, each one self-employed and committed to carry on his own professional activity in his own way, independent of the others, guaranteeing absolute secrecy and privacy regarding the data and information provided by the clients.

At the same time the complexity of the work, the continuous changing of laws, the technological progress and the acceleration of communications deriving therefrom, require a strenuous effort of study, of keeping up to date, of acquiring information, that a single professional can no longer handle alone.

Therefore the lawyers and accountants of Genoa Chambers are in the privileged situation to collaborate by studying and by working together, i.e. exchanging ideas, organizing courses, seminars, debates and mock cases; forming working groups whenever the dimension of the single case requires it or even makes it necessary.

The professionals of Genoa Chambers have a primary vocation for maritime law and economics, for transportation and for the law and economics of international trade and business enterprise .

Avv. Kristian Kielland, who left us in 2005, was a member from the beginning and his memory is honoured in a separate page of this website.