Cilio & Partners is an international law firm with offices in New York City, and affiliated offices in Milan and Rome, Italy.

The Firm’s areas of practice are: M&A, corporate law, corporate restructuring, international commercial agreements, intellectual property, real estate, immigration, arbitration, and commercial litigation.

Cilio & Partners represents overseas clients doing business in the United States as well as U.S. companies and investors doing business abroad. Our cultural familiarities and foreign language capabilities directly benefit our clients by avoiding expensive coordination mistakes, delays and confusion that frequently frustrate investors and companies attempting to start or run a business or complete a transaction in the United States or in Italy.

Cilio & Partners law firm works in all aspects of corporate law, from the assistance in corporate formation to the structuring and day-by-day activities of listed and non-listed companies.

Cilio & Partners law firm’s expertise in the corporate arena includes all areas pertaining to the operation of the companies and the relationship among their shareholder.

Cilio & Partners law firm has represented over the years Italian clients in mergers and acquisitions of financial and industrial companies both in Italy and the United States.

Over the years Cilio & Partners law firm has also developed a strong know-how in advising SMI entrepreneurs, assisting them in development programs of their companies in the U.S. market.

The skills of the firm in this area include the restructuring of enterprises, negotiation, operating agreements and the management of relationships between shareholders.

Cilio & Partners law firm advises clients on joint venture agreements, supply, distribution, franchising and licensing agreements (including trademarks, patents and intellectual property).

Cilio & Partners law firm’s arbitration and litigation experience is in matters relating to the liability of directors, officers and professionals under the Italian, European, and New York law and in shareholders and members disputes.

The firm also has developed a strong knowledge in contract matters, including arbitrations and litigations arising from the termination of distribution agreements, sales representative, employment agreements and debt collection.

The firm also advises clients in litigation concerning disputes on trade secrets, international treaties, unfair competition and antitrust, real estate, and insurance issues.

Cilio & Partners law firm represents both corporate and private clients in all proceedings and transactions concerning real estate properties, including the purchase, management and sale of properties, land use, construction, leasing agreements and asset examinations.

Cilio & Partners law firm advices several clients on a wide range of issues relating to the intellectual property.

More in detail, the law firm provides support for the negotiation and drafting of intellectual property license agreements, the acquisition and sale of businesses whose primary assets consist of intellectual property, securing finance transactions with intellectual property registered in Italy, Europe and the United States.

Bruno Cilio, is the founder and owner of Cilio & Partners Law Firm, PC., and he is admitted to practice both, in the State of New York, and the Republic of Italy

Mr. Cilio is a graduate of the University of Naples, Italy and holds a Master Degree in Comparative Law from Pace University School of Law in New York.


Mr. Cilio has worked throughout his career as a business and corporate attorney in Italy and New York, representing overseas clients doing business in the United States as well as U.S. companies and investors doing business abroad. 


Mr. Cilio is a member of the New York Bar Association and the United States Federal Court, Southern and Eastern District of New York.

You can contact us directly from this form, or writing us an email to bcilio@cilioandpartners.com.