Laura Pierallini
Position: Name Partner and Founder
T: +39 06 88 41 713
F: +39 06 88 40 249
E: l.pierallini@pierallini.it
Studio Legale Pierallini & Associati
28, Viale Liegi
Rome 00198
Italy
Laura Pierallini is the founder and name partner of the Italian aviation law firm Pierallini Studio Legale.
She is a professor of commercial law and air law at the LUISS University of Rome.
Laura has practised aviation law since 1988, providing expert advice to clients across the whole of the international aviation sector, including aircraft finance and leasing; antitrust and regulatory; litigation and dispute resolution; employment; restructuring; M&A and corporate issues.
Her clientele includes Italian and foreign airlines, manufacturers, lessors, financiers, airports, handlers and travel agents. She has recently advised the most important M&A transactions in the aviation sector, including the sale to the newly established flag Italian carrier (Italia Trasporto Aereo S.p.A. – ITA Airways) of the Alitalia aviation business.
Ms Pierallini is recognised Thought Leader in the aviation section of Thought Leaders –Global Elite (2018-2024) and is recommended as a leading lawyer in the regulatory, contentious and finance sub-chapters of the aviation section of WWL: Transport.
She has been named Best Aviation Lawyer at the Client Choice Awards 2024 and Lawyer of the Year – Aviation at the WWL Awards 2024. She has been consistently shortlisted for Best Aviation Lawyer at the Europe Women in Business Law Awards. She has been named Italian lawyer of the year in Transport Law at Top Legal Industry Awards 2021 and 2022 and Italian lawyer of the year in Aviation Finance at Legal Community Finance Awards 2023.
Laura regularly participates in conferences on aviation, delivering speeches and moderating panels at various Italian and international symposia, in particular those organised by IATA, IBA, EALA; WALA and EBAA.
She organises annual conferences on air law in Rome, attracting international experts, jurists, and operators.
She is aviation committee member of the International Bar Association (IBA), committee member of the European Air Law Association (EALA) and a member of the International Aviation Women’s Association (IAWA).
She is the author of many national and international publications on aviation, tourism and commercial law.