Studio Legale Jacobacci Sterpi Francetti Regoli De Haas & Associati has three offices in Italy as well as a best-friends relationship with UK firm Slaughter and May. The firm is led by senior partner Fabrizio Jacobacci. In big cases, Massimo Sterpi and associate Angela Tasillo helped Mac Group, Meet Comunicazione and Sanremorally reach settlements on the worldwide use of the trade mark Mille Miglia. Alberto Camusso advised Flos, a well-known lighting design company, on IP enforcement, while Jacobacci was mandated by Autostrade per l'Italia to defend it against a damages claim based on a patented automatic toll payments system.
The firm is the biggest IP boutique in the country and litigated about 10% of all IP cases. It also handles IP aspects of transactional cases and counts among its clients Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Gucci, Hermès, Ferrero and British American Tobacco.