Federico Sutti, formerly a DLA partner and its managing director for Europe and Africa, is to become the new office's head. The other lawyers are specialists in real estate, energy and employment law.

Italy - in world's top ten

Dentons global chair Joe Andrew said: 'Italy ranks amongst the world’s top 10 countries by GDP, and is the third largest economy in the Eurozone. The launch of our Milan office marks another important milestone towards achieving our objective of becoming the world’s leading law firm, capable of offering clients premium counsel in all of the places they do business.' Source: Dentons