Founding partner
Marco Bersani
Avvocato (Bar of Verona), Abogado ejerciente (Bar of Madrid)
Marco founded Bersani Law Firm & Partners in Verona and leads the citizenship practice. He files personally before the Italian courts in citizenship cases, and handles investor visa files for clients moving to Italy.
Clients in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia. Correspondence in English.
Practice
What Marco handles
Six areas, all of them Italian immigration and citizenship law. Each links to the page that sets out the rules.
Italian citizenship by descent
Eligibility under article 3-bis, document chains, consular files and court proceedings.
Read the page →1948 cases
Claims through a female ancestor, which only an Italian court can recognise.
Read the page →Court proceedings
Applications and appeals before the competent Italian tribunal, including files blocked by the absence of consular appointments.
Read the page →Citizenship by marriage
Applications by spouses of Italian citizens, with the residence and language requirements.
Read the page →Investor Visa for Italy
Residence by investment: qualifying investment, nulla osta, residence permit.
Read the page →Elective Residence Visa
For non-EU nationals with sufficient passive income who wish to live in Italy without working.
Read the page →Admissions
Two bars, two jurisdictions
The double admission matters in practice: an Italian citizenship file is filed in Italy, but many clients hold, or are applying for, Spanish or other EU status alongside it.
Education
Bachelor’s degree in Law
Graduated in 2008, with a thesis in international law.
Master’s degree in Law
With a thesis in Italian constitutional law.
Law studies, European and international law
Bachelor’s and Master’s level study in Madrid, concentrated on European and international law.
Post-graduate Master in Law
The qualification leading to admission as an attorney in Spain.
Further study
Recognition
Awards and listings
Each entry below names the publisher, the year and, where the publisher keeps the page online, a link to the source. Nothing here is a ranking we commissioned or paid for.
Top 25 Global Migration Attorneys — 2025
Uglobal, the publisher covering investment-migration markets, listed Marco Bersani among the twenty-five global migration attorneys of 2025.
Top 25 Global Migration Attorneys — 2024
The second listing, again for work on citizenship applications, elective residence visas and investor visas.
Top 25 Global Migration Attorneys — 2022
The first of the three listings, with an interview on the Italian investor visa and on demand for second citizenships in Europe.
Top 10 Immigration Law Firms in Europe — 2022
Manage HR, the US magazine, selected the firm for its annual European list, with a profile on how citizenship and residence files are handled for clients abroad.
Le Fonti Awards — Winner, 2022
Le Fonti, the Italian legal and financial media group, named the firm among its 2022 winners. The ceremony was held at Palazzo Mezzanotte in Milan, the seat of the Italian stock exchange, and broadcast by Le Fonti TV.
The Lawyers Global — Recommended Firm, 2022 and 2023
The Lawyers Global, an international directory of law firms, listed the firm as a recommended firm for Italy, Southern Europe and Europe, with its Legal Excellence badge in 2022 and again in 2023.
Conferences
Speaking
Talks on Italian residence and citizenship programmes, mostly to an audience of advisers and investors.
IMI Connect 2025 — Rome
Speaker on Italian residence programmes for investors and high-net-worth individuals, at the Investment Migration Insider event.
The event →Entrepreneur Global Summit — New Delhi
Speaker on the Italian routes to residence for investors, at the summit hosted by Forbes India with D Globalist.
The summit →Italy Golden Visa webinar — NomadGate
Speaker on the Italian investor visa, alongside an article written for NomadGate on the programme.
The article →Uglobal Immigration Expo — South America
Speaker on the Italian investor visa and the Italian residence-by-investment programme.
Uglobal Immigration Expo — South Africa
Speaker on the Italian residence-by-investment programme.
Wealth, Tax Planning and Immigration Expo — United States
Speaker on the Italian investor visa.
Press
Interviews and publications
Contact
Send us your case
Tell us where your Italian ancestor was born and where you live. You will get an answer in writing from a lawyer, not a sales form.
Or start from the rules: citizenship by descent · 1948 cases · your consulate · what it costs.