Gina M. Piazza | Tarter Krinsky & Drogin
Gina M. Piazza is a skilled advisor and a valuable resource to clients with extensive experience representing global companies, start-ups, and private individuals across various industries. Clients depend on Gina’s responsiveness and quick turnaround, deep understanding of their businesses, and ability to anticipate potential legal and business issues before they arise.
As a partner in the firm’s International and Retail Practice Groups, Gina also co-chairs the firm’s Italy Practice. In addition, Gina serves on the firm’s Diversity & Inclusion committee.
Gina’s familiarity with the language and customs of her Italian clients allows her to provide culturally savvy legal advice in both English and Italian.
Gina regularly serves as clients’ outside general counsel, effectively and efficiently guiding them through all phases of their day-to-day business operations, transactional and contract matters, as well as their more complex and time-consuming matters. From common contracts to complex corporate transactions, employment to corporate governance, and pre-litigation negotiations between adversaries, Gina’s experience reaches across many diverse practice areas. As a trusted business advisor, Gina finds herself providing professional advice on many aspects of her clients’ businesses, helping Italian companies and their subsidiaries navigate the intricacies of conducting business in the United States. Due to her in-depth familiarity with her clients’ respective businesses and working styles, Gina is extremely sensitive to her clients’ needs and desires and is able to seamlessly tailor her legal advice and guidance accordingly. She is resourceful, with meticulous attention to detail, an emphasis on preparedness and responsiveness. She is always ready, willing, and able to help her clients, in the smallest or largest of matters.
Gina has represented clients in a broad range of industries, including luxury goods, fashion, footwear, lingerie and legwear, beauty and cosmetics, furniture and lighting, housewares, jewelry, architecture and design, public relations, food and beverage, wine and spirits, hospitality, e-commerce, logistics services and technology, real estate and construction, and industrial machinery.
She collaborated with Giuliano Iannaccone and Luigi Perin on the employment chapter of their book Stati Uniti d’America: Diritto e Fiscalità d’Impresa (United States of America: Business Law and Taxation), IPSOA/WoltersKluwer, 2019. She has also co-authored articles for leading retail industry publications, including WWD.