Allen & Overy è uno studio legale internazionale con sedi, in Italia, a Milano e Roma.  Oggi lo studio può contare su un team di oltre 180 avvocati con grande esperienza nell’assistenza a imprese di rilievo nazionale ed internazionale, grandi istituti di credito, primarie compagnie di assicurazione ed istituzioni governative. La perfetta integrazione dei professionisti nel network internazionale consente loro di assistere i clienti in materia di diritto italiano, inglese, statunitense e comunitario, avvalendosi nella loro opera del patrimonio informativo, organizzativo e tecnologico di Allen & Overy, che conta 453 partner e uno staff globale di 4.800 persone che operano in 24 Paesi nel mondo.
Lorenzo Parola
Location:  Italy
Practice(s):  Commercial Contracts , Corporate Governance , Energy and Utilities , Joint Ventures , Mergers and Acquisitions , Projects
Date Joined:  1998, became partner in 2006
Education:  Univerisity of Manitoba, J.D. Catholic University of Milan, MGI (Master for Legal Consultants) SAA School of Management University of Turin
Spoken Languages:  Italian, English, French
Experience: 
Lorenzo Parola is a partner in the Rome office, qualified both as an Italian Advocate and as a Solicitor of England and Wales.
His practice is devoted to domestic and cross-border acquisitions and divestitures, joint ventures, mergers and corporate reorganisations as well as to the commercial and regulatory aspects in the energy, utilities and petrochemical sectors. He has substantial experience in acquisitions of IPPs and petrochemical businesses, project finance transactions, EPC contracts, tolling arrangements, power purchase agreements, long-term gas and hydrocarbons sales agreements, pipeline transportation agreements and physical and financial energy trading, including emission and green certificates trading.

• Energy Code (Codice dell'Energia). This collection of laws and regulations related to the electricity and natural gas sectors is currently undergoing publishing
• "Development Of New Generation Capacity In The Italian Market And Tolling Structures (Sviluppo di nuova capacità di generazione nel mercato italiano e strutture tolling)" in L'Energia Elettrica, No. 1- 2005
• "Development Of New Generation Capacity In The Italian Electricity Market And Tolling Structures" in Energy Technologies From Italy 2004-2005, November 2004, p. 65-69
• "Gas Sales Agreements (I contratti di somministrazione di gas naturale)" in La Termotecnica, October 2004
• "Novelties Of The Edipower Tolling Agreement (Le novità del contratto di tolling Edipower)" in Staffetta Quotidiana, 20 September 2003, p. 11
• "Gas Sales Agreements, Take Or Pay And Project Financing (Contratti di somministrazione di gas naturale "take or pay" e "project financing")" in the Italian Legal Journal I Contratti, 2002, p. 195-204
• Italy: Databases - Legislation in C.T.L.R. 2000, 6(2), N17-18, Legal Protection Of Databases in www.internationallawoffice.com, 20 September 1999
• The New Legal Framework For Tele-work in www.internationallawoffice.com, 5 May 1999.