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Our podcast Next Legal reaches the important milestone of 100 episodes! Thanks to Futura's editorial staff, guests and most of all listeners.Until the next episode: keep following us...

Futura's third monograph dedicated to MiCAR and Electronic Money Tokens (EMT) to delve into the Regulation of Crypto-Activity Markets and in particular issuance requirements, fund management, the importance of the White Paper and implications for the...

How nice to find out on the occasion of our third birthday that Corriere della Sera mentioned us among the "finalists" of Law Firms of the Year 2024.Special featured in the insert "The Economy"  

Futura's second monograph devoted to MiCAR and Asset-Referenced Tokens (ART), in which we address the main features of the regulation including requirements for ART issuers, authorization for ART offerings, white paper drafting and...

A new monograph from Futura! Dedicated to MiCAR and the rules for cryptocurrency marketing communications in the EU, which must be clear, accurate, non-forbearing and consistent with the information in the white paper. Download the monograph in pdf Listen to the...

ESG Makers | A Guide to the Leading Players of Sustainability It is a pleasure to be featured in ESG Makers | A Guide to the Leading Players of Sustainability among the leading players of the sustainable transition in Italy. Many thanks to ESG News.    

[ebook] Blockchain and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) How best to implement blockchain for sustainability purposes?With expertise in ESG and tech-law, Freebly and Futura have produced a publication that reports on some of the case...

Futura Law Firm with Raffaele Battaglini, Claudia Borghini and Larissa Stieven Trizotto, advised the founders of insurtech Axieme on the legal aspects of the transaction to join Vitanuova Group.Phoenix Capital acted as financial advisor...

Third Edition - September 11-12, 2023 Projected into the future of the legal market .... an industry in transformation: from artificial intelligence, predictive justice, through sustainability to the digitization of public administration. Our...

On Monday, July 24, our Raffaele Battaglini and Amedeo Perna spoke during the first day of the week-long event organized by ELSA Turin for the Summer School in Food Law to share with participants knowledge of blockchain as applied...

Futura Live!What better opportunity for the Futura team to get together to share and compare experiences from the first half of the year and welcome new things.Now for some summer rest and then from early September, it's back to chasing goals!  

Berlin, July 6, 2023: International and Interdisciplinary Workshop on Generative AI and the Law.An interesting opportunity for our own Santiago M. Caravaca as the keynote speaker at the closing address of the Workshop on Generative AI and the Law of Future...

Futura has published its Benefit Report for 2022: goals achieved, impact assessment according to the BIA, and goals for 2023. Read the report in pdf    

Term Sheet: guidelines for Start-ups and VCs A new Futura Monograph. A guide dedicated to the Term Sheet that in Start-up investment transactions plays a key role, because drafting a good Term Sheet means drafting a good contract of...

Raffaele Battaglini joins the Operational Board of Legal Hackers, in the role of "legal and compliance." Operational Board Members: Kanan Dhru, Laura Fauqueur, Rosemary Koech-Kimwatu, Mauricio M. Ocampo Villaseñor, Victor Scarpa de A. Maranhão, Raphael.

Once again this year Futura Law Firm appears among the 100 Professionals of Consulting, in the Italian Boutique category, featured in the April Forbes Italy Annex. 100 Professionals 2023 Boutique  

Also this year, our own Raffaele Battaglini with Alessandro Chelli of Apio gave a lecture to the Master's program "Business and Company Law: European and International Perspectives" at Luiss Guido Carli University on how to "Write a Smart Contract: the language...

Raffale Battaglini, as legal counsel for JurProject, gave a workshop on Web3 litigation for the ScytaleAcademy. Jur is developing networkstate: infrastructure and tools to help Web3 natives manage member and business...

Ns Raffaele Battaglini was invited to moderate the event on 01/17/23 in Paris by Romain Vidal and Claire Le Floch of LES France - Licensing Executives Society. The panel composed of Olivier Scherenberg, Laurent Nowak, Alessio Balbo and Bastian Best addressed...

Spotify has given us a gift! A Wrapped for Podcaster full of "good data" for our Next Legal podcast:- 421 minutes of new content: 80% more than other creators in the Business category;- Was listened to in 12 countries;- In the top 10% of the most shared at...

Turin-based startup benefit Eoliann has closed a seed investment round supported by lead investor Primo Ventures and Exor Seeds. Futura supported Eoliann, for legal aspects, with a team coordinated by Raffaele Battaglini and composed, for the...

The association of professional benefit firms is born.It was founded by eight Italian firms distributed among Lombardy, Piedmont, Veneto and Sicily: Freebly, Lexant,Fidone Associati, Lawal, Futura Law Firm, SDBA, FL20 Studio and Iplus. Probenefit is a new...

Futura present at the Web Summit 2023 in Lisbon with our own Amedeo Perna. The Web Summit is the world's largest, annual event that brings together the people and companies redefining the tech industry: founders and CEOs of fast-growing tech companies and startups...

Our Amedeo Perna is one of the mentors of Metaverse 4 Finance the first Italian accelerator program for startups in the metaverse. Metaverse 4 Finance Accelerator is promoted by Sella Group and is implemented by venture incubator dpixel with the support of Ogr...

Kicking off the third season of Next Legal! New format, ten-minute episodes, new content organized by subject areas, short story arcs, new image, new contributors because the team has grown. Thanks to you who have supported us with ratings...

Why can blockchain be useful in the agribusiness sector? On Thursday, September 29 in the webinar organized by ICC Italy, our Emanuela De Sabato and Raffaele Battaglini together with Alessandro Chelli (founder of Apio | Humanity First and Trusty | Food security...

As part of the European Law Institute's Annual Conference to be held in Madrid from September 5-8, 2022, Raffaele Battaglini will participate in a panel discussion entitled "Blockchain Technology and Smart Contracts" to be held on September 8 from 09:00 to...

VI edition of aCourma! - July 24 Our own Raffaele Battaglini spoke about legal aspects of the Metaverse as part of a panel discussion together with Alessio Balbo, Flavio Trione and Pietro Bonarda. Thanks to Interpatent s.r.l. for the organization    

Giuffrè Francis Lefebvre has published the book "The Digital Transformation of Notarial Activities," edited by Remo Maria Morone, a notary public in Turin, in which Avv. Raffaele Battaglini also participated and wrote the chapter entitled "Online Constitution of...

Futura in England! Futura is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with FIDLAW on legal services for the blockchain industry. The services concern legal compliance of blockchain platforms and token issuance, smart legal contracts and...

The Futura team spent two days: the team is growing and it was necessary after these first six months of the year to take stock, congratulate each other on achievements, look each other in the eye and share goals and aspirations. Organisational vision,...

Futura is partner of NextEdu Futura contributes to NextEdu, an acceleration programme for startups in the edutech sector run by xEdu in collaboration with OGR Torino and Fondazione CRT. In the legal training session, Raffaele Battaglini and Larissa Stieven Trizotto...

Futura joins ICC Italia, the prestigious body dedicated to the dissemination of the business and legal culture of international business. ICC is the network operating in more than 120 countries worldwide as the institutional representative of over 45 million companies,...

Futura produces an e-book to address the topic of Pay-to-Earn from the perspective of a legal analysis of the business model. The authors of Play-to-Earn Videogame Business Model: a Legal Analysis are Raffaele Battaglini, Luigi Cantisani and Selen Ekinci. (...) we...

As required by law, Futura published its Benefit Report for 2021, containing the targets achieved and to be achieved, the impact assessment according to the BIA and the targets for 2022.

Welcome to Assobenefit Futura Law Firm S.t.a.r.l. S.B.! "Futura is a company among lawyers born benefit because it has chosen to innovate legal advice, make its business transparent and invest on training and welfare of its human capital to create...

The first season of 24 episodes of our podcast Next Legal, which aired on our Telegram Channel, is now available for streaming on Spotify! We talked about innovation topics such as: smart legal contracts and NFT; video games, play-to-earn, metaverse;...

Emanuela De Sabato, a lawyer, and Federica Fugiglando, a chartered accountant, involved the Giuffrè publisher Francis Lefebvre to write about Benefit Societies as an innovative way of doing business for profit, pursuing aims of common benefit and operating in a...

Oxford University Press has published the book "The EU Crowdfunding Regulation", edited by Marije Louisse, senior legal counsel at the Central Bank of the Netherlands, and Pietro Ortolani, professor at Radboud University, in which he also participated...

Cambridge University Press has recently published the book "Lawyering in the Digital Age" edited by Larry A. DiMatteo, University of Florida, André Janssen, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, Pietro Ortolani, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, Francisco de Elizalde, IE...

On a Saturday morning, we had a very pleasant chat with Davide Tammaro, one of the founders of Boniviri s.r.l., a non-profit company. Benefit company, born from the commitment of young people who promote oil and the products of their Sicily: he wanted to listen to our project and he...

Acquisition International, as part of the 2021 Legal Awards, has recognised Futura as the winner of the Most Innovative Tech Law Firm | Italy award. Acquisition International designed the Legal Awards programme to recognise and reward those firms and...

23 October 2021 c/o Talent Garden - Fondazione AgnelliFutura Law Firm sponsors the CL+SI FEST organised by Legal Hackers Torino. A day dedicated to talk about computational law, new technologies and especially social impact. Legal Hackers Torino for the...

Many thanks to Francesco Antonioli who writes about Futura Law Firm on the pages of Piemonte Economia of La Repubblica. Here to read the article: "Benefit corporation", Turin leads the way.

At Corporate LiveWire's Innovation & Excellence Awards 2021, Futura was named Boutique Tech Law Firm of the Year | Italy. In 2020, the Corporate LiveWire team received 14,292 nominations from 19 countries around the world. The winners...

... the Futura team gathered on the terrace of their headquarters to celebrate: the recognition as social impact assessor for Emanuela the joining of Santiago in the team the publication of a book by Raffaele for Giuffrè Francis Lefebvre the admission...

Published by Giuffrè Francis Lefebvre, the text "Smart Legal Contract: from the idea to the code" is out. Written by Raffaele Battaglini, lawyer, and Paolo Alberto Nicorelli, blockchain developer, it illustrates the logical, legal and IT path to translate a contract into...

On the air the Telegram channel of Futura Law Firm On Wednesday, 8 September, the Telegram channel of Futura Law Firm dedicated to the theme of Innovation was inaugurated with insights on Next Legal, New Technology and Impact Benefit. The first podcast was dedicated to the...

22 July - 5th edition of aCourma! On the day dedicated to innovation, Raffaele Battaglini, Founder and CEO of Futura Law Firm, participated in the round table entitled BLOCKCHAIN & NFTs: THE INTERSECTION BETWEEN ART, LAW AND TECHNOLOGY. The meeting, moderated by...

Bench-Mark | Dialogues from the benchInterview by Francesco Antonioli. In Turin in 2021, some lawyers wondered how the legal profession could benefit in terms of social impact. Driven by this common goal, they have created Futura Law...

Founders Emanuela De Sabato and Raffaele Battaglini were interviewed by Giacomo Giudice for 4C Legal on the model of a company between lawyers and the value of being a benefit society. To read the interview.

Legal Hackers is the world's largest community for legal innovation, a global movement of entrepreneurs, computer scientists, lawyers, researchers, students, professors, regulators, innovators and technologists exploring and developing solutions for legal...

Futura Law Firm, with Avv. Raffaele Battaglini (LL.M.), assisted the sellers of the innovative start-up MiaCar S.r.l. in the sale of its entire share capital to Facile.it, managing the structure, corporate aspects and contractual profiles of the transaction....

Futura Law Firm, with attorneys Raffaele Battaglini and Emanuela De Sabato, assisted the founders of Essedarii in setting up a corporate entity, first in Piedmont, to be at the same time an Innovative Start-Up, a Social Vocation, a Benefit Company. In particular,...

Forbes Italy has included Futura Law Firm among the Italian boutiques in the 100 Professionals 2021 (paper attachment to the March issue) for "Innovative approach to the legal profession". Click here to read the article.