Practice areas

Corporate & commercial; Corporate governance; Intellectual property; M&A

Introduction

Carlo Diego D’Andrea is founder and managing partner of D’Andrea & Partners with offices in China, Italy, Vietnam, India, the UAE, and a Russia desk. Graduated in law from University of Teramo in Italy, D’Andrea subsequently obtained his master’s degree in corporate advisory at LUISS University in Rome and a diploma in Chinese studies at Nanjing Normal University. He is a member of the Italian Bar Association.

Based in China since 2005, he is a renowned international lawyer with extensive experience in a full range of legal services to multinational companies investing in major developing economies. He mainly assists companies with cross-border mergers and acquisitions, assistance in ODI/FDI, relocation projects and intellectual property rights protection.

Currently, he also holds the position of national vice president at the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China, after four years of being chairman of the board of the EUCCC Shanghai chapter.

He is also an adjunct professor of international organisations at the faculty of law of LUISS University. He hosts the podcast “Global Vision – Private Chat With Carlo D’Andrea”, regularly participates in international events and conferences as a speaker on international business and legal matters, and is the author of books on investments in different countries such as China, Vietnam, India and Belarus.

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