Arnaud Zabaldano

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Leaders in Law endorses Arnaud Zabaldano as our exclusively recommended Business Law expert in Monaco. If you wish to get in touch with Arnaud please use the contact information provided above.

Arnaud ZABALDANO is the founder of ZABALDANO Law Office. He works as Avocat Défenseur in Monaco.

Education & Appointments:

  • July 2000 : Masters degree in Law
  • September 2001 : Diploma in Higher Applied studies in Business and Economic Law
  • 22nd October 2001 : Admitted at the Monaco bar
  • 22nd October 2009 : Appointed as an Avocat Défenseur (Defence Lawyer)

Experience:

  • October 2001 up to September 2006 : Partner of Cabinet PASQUIER-CIULLA & ZABALDANO
  • September 2006 up to July 2011 : Founder and partner of GZ AVOCATS
  • 2007 and 2008 : Co-creator, organizer and lecturer at the Francis Lefebvre Monegasque Labour law courses
  • 2009 : Lecturer at the University of Brazzaville (Congo) on Law and Monegasque legal practice
  • 2010 : Lecturer on the new anti-money laundering Law in Monaco for the Monegasque Compliance Officers’ Association
  • Since July 2011 : Founder and partner of Etude ZABALDANO

Credentials:

  • Correspondent and lawyer of PRICE WATER HOUSE COOPER
  • Best friend of ALLEN OVERY
  • Business Partner of MAITLAND GROUP
  • Member of G.L.I.U (Global Law Intelligence Unit)
  • Member of I.A.L (International Association of Lawyers)
  • Member of Global Law Experts
  • Member of L.N.A (Legal Netlink Alliance)

Client Base:

  • Various banking and finance institutions in Monaco
  • Various realty construction companies in Monaco
  • Various Monegasque institutions
  • Extensive experience in complex and international cases

Business Law Practice:

Zabaldano Law Office works with its clients in all areas of business law advice by providing assistance and representing them in both transactional and litigation matters.

Main areas of expertise:

  • Consultations in various areas of commercial law;
  • Negotiating and drafting of commercial contracts;
  • Intellectual and industrial property;
  • Commercial Leases;
  • Insolvency;
  • Assistance and representation in any proceedings relating to commercial law.

Zabaldano Law Office:

Zabaldano Law Office is a law firm established in the Principality of Monaco dealing with the most complex matters often with an international dimension.

It represents corporate and private individual clients who require dedication, professionalism and commitment.

The Law office consists of a multi-disciplinary team who have extensive experience in practice areas such as banking and finance, commercial and business law, international law, real estate and construction as well as employment law and criminal law.

Arnaud Zabaldano, its founder, is a Barrister at the Monaco Bar where he has practiced since 2001.
With a postgraduate degree in Economic and Business Law, he has naturally focused the law office practice on business law, in litigation, arbitration and advice.

Committed to the values ​​of the legal profession, Mr Zabaldano strives to best meet clients’ needs, combining legal excellence, availability and innovation.

Vincent de Bonnafos

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Leaders in Law endorses Vincent de Bonnafos as our exclusively recommended Banking & Finance Law expert in Monaco. If you wish to get in touch with Vincent please use the contact information provided above.

Vincent is active in financial and securities laws, banking regulatory and transactional matters. He also advises on general commercial matters in particular in sports and new technologies.

Vincent has a doctorate degree in law (Ph.D) for his thesis on the enhancement of corporate social responsibility. He also participated in the Commission for modernising Monaco corporate and commercial laws (Commission de Modernisation du Droit Economique Monégasque). He also provides on-site AML and compliance training for banks, law-firms and sports clubs.

Before joining DL Corporate & Regulatory, Vincent worked in French banking institutions as well as French and Monaco law firms. He speaks French and English fluently.

Vincent lectures on banking law and law of technologies at Nice University.

Firm Overview:

DL Corporate & Regulatory is a firm of business lawyers authorised to render regulatory and transactional legal advice in Monaco and abroad. The firm specialises in corporate, financing and commercial transactions, securities laws, mergers & acquisitions, restructurings and regulatory compliance in particular in the banking/finance, capital markets and sports areas.

 

Jean-Charles S. GARDETTO

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Leaders in Law endorses Jean-Charles S. Gardetto as our exclusively recommended Human Rights Law expert in Monaco. If you wish to get in touch with Jean-Charles please use the contact information provided above.

Admitted to the Bar in Monaco in 1988, Jean-Charles S. Gardetto has practised as an Avocat-Défenseur since 1997. He is the former President of the Monaco Bar Association (Ordre des Avocats et Avocats-Défenseurs de Monaco) and a former member of its board.

Jean-Charles S. Gardetto handles both advice and litigation. His main practice areas are business law, civil law, banking and financial law, contract law, international private law and business criminal law.

He holds the following academic qualifications:

– Master of Laws (L.L.M.) (1987), Cornell Law School (USA);
– Diplôme d’Etudes Supérieures Spécialisées, DESS de Juriste d’Affaires Internationales – Commerce extérieur (1985), University of Aix-Marseille III, Institute of Business Law (France);
– Diplôme de Juriste Conseil d’entreprises, option internationale (1985), University of Aix-Marseille III;
– Maîtrise de droit privé (1984), University of Nice Sophia Antipolis (France).

Jean-Charles S. Gardetto was a Member of the National Council (Parliament) of Monaco and Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee from February 2003 to February 2013.

He was Head of the Delegations of Monaco to the Parliamentary of the Council of Europe and to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly and was elected Vice-President of both Assemblies.

He was also a member of Monaco’s delegations to the Inter-Parliamentary Union, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean and the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (EuroMed) of the Union for the Mediterranean.

Jean-Charles S. Gardetto is also a member of the International Bar Association, the American Bar Association and the Union Internationale des Avocats.

Firm Overview:

Jean-Charles S. Gardetto, Attorney at law (Avocat-Défenseur) admitted to the Bar of Monaco in 1988, has built up a practice handling both advice and litigation in the Principality of Monaco, and covering several areas of law.

Backed by law degrees from both French and American universities, Jean-Charles S. Gardetto soon built up the international client portfolio that has determined the firm’s general course.

The Law Offices of Jean-Charles S. GARDETTO currently comprise six multilingual legal practitioners: a partner, Attorney at law, Jean-Charles S. Gardetto and six associates, graduates of universities in France and abroad, spanning all the main practice areas.

The firm offers its clients, Monegasque and foreign nationals alike, a highly skilled and professional team who between them possess all the competencies required to tackle a comprehensive range of legal issues, including both litigation and advisory work, and to resolve the most complex situations.

The Law Offices of Jean-Charles S. GARDETTO even accompany its clients beyond the borders of the Principality thanks to a network of international correspondents.

 

Peter Walford

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Peter Walford and Frederic Mege have both been recognised as leading experts in their field by Chambers & Partners Global, Europe 2014 and the Citywealth Leaders List (2014). Walford is described by Chambers Europe as a “gifted trusts and estate planning specialist.”

We speak English, French, Russian and Ukrainian. Our client base comprises entrepreneurs, entertainers, financial and banking services companies, fund managers, trust companies, sporting personalities and international families from many jurisdictions.

Clients trust us to deliver efficient and cost-effective advice, with a particular emphasis on commerciality and confidentiality. To learn about how we can help you pursue your business interests, please contact us.

Donald Manasse

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Leaders in Law endorses Donald Manasse as our exclusively recommended Private Client Law expert in Monaco. If you wish to get in touch with Donald please use the contact information provided above.

Donald Manasse has more than 20 years of experience representing victims and judicial administrators in international fraud cases with connections in Monaco, France and Italy. He has assisted in planning and implementing international asset tracing and recovery programmes for clients.

He has served as counsel in one of Monaco’s most notorious Ponzi scheme trials (Hobbs-Melville) in which a US businessman was accused of defrauding investors out of millions of euros after the brokerage firm he owned collapsed.

Mr Manasse has been authorised as a counsellor at law in Monaco since 1989 and is a member of the Bar in Nice, France, where the practice was founded in 1986.

As a French lawyer, he has access to investigative files during the preliminary and “instruction” procedures and appears as counsel in the criminal trials where his familiarity with international financial customs and practices is put to good use.

He has worked internationally in the pursuit and recovery of millions of dollars for creditors, trustees and receivers. Most recently Mr Manasse was instrumental in securing the arrest and conviction of an international fraudster who created his own stock exchange and has lead a team of lawyers seeking the return of misappropriated funds.

Born and raised in Milan, Italy, and schooled in Italy, the United States and France, Mr Manasse was first admitted to the Bar in New York. His cultural versatility and skills help bridge the challenges associated with international prosecutions.

Mr Manasse and his firm are the Monaco representatives of ICC FraudNet, the world’s leading asset recovery legal network.