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.

VeronaOrdine degli Avvocati
MadridColegio de la Abogacía
2008Called to the law
IT · EN · ESWorking languages

Clients in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia. Correspondence in English.

Marco Bersani, Avvocato, founding partner of Bersani Law Firm & Partners in Verona

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.

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1948 cases

Claims through a female ancestor, which only an Italian court can recognise.

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Court proceedings

Applications and appeals before the competent Italian tribunal, including files blocked by the absence of consular appointments.

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Citizenship by marriage

Applications by spouses of Italian citizens, with the residence and language requirements.

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Investor Visa for Italy

Residence by investment: qualifying investment, nulla osta, residence permit.

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Elective Residence Visa

For non-EU nationals with sufficient passive income who wish to live in Italy without working.

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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.

Avvocato — Bar of Verona

Admitted in Italy and entered on the roll of the Ordine degli Avvocati di Verona. This is the admission under which the firm files before the Italian courts.

Abogado ejerciente — Bar of Madrid

Admitted in Spain and registered with the Ilustre Colegio de la Abogacía de Madrid as a practising lawyer, after the post-graduate qualification at Nebrija.

Education

University of Verona

Bachelor’s degree in Law

Graduated in 2008, with a thesis in international law.

University of Verona

Master’s degree in Law

With a thesis in Italian constitutional law.

Madrid

Law studies, European and international law

Bachelor’s and Master’s level study in Madrid, concentrated on European and international law.

Universidad Nebrija, Madrid

Post-graduate Master in Law

The qualification leading to admission as an attorney in Spain.

Further study

United Nations, New YorkNMUN programme at UN headquarters: drafting resolutions in the General Assembly framework, alongside participants from other universities.
Harvard University (HarvardX)American Contract Law: Trust, Promise and Contract.
University of LondonCitizenship and the Rule of Law.
Consiglio d’Europa and CNFBusiness and Human Rights in International Law.

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.

Uglobal 2025 Top 25 Global Migration Attorneys banner naming Marco Bersani
Uglobal · Published 30 December 2025

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.

Uglobal 2024 Top 25 Global Migration Attorneys winner banner for Marco Bersani
Uglobal · Published January 2025

Top 25 Global Migration Attorneys — 2024

The second listing, again for work on citizenship applications, elective residence visas and investor visas.

Uglobal Top 25 Global Migration Attorneys banner for Bersani Law Firm and Partners
Uglobal · Published 21 April 2023

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.

Manage HR Magazine Top 10 Immigration Law Firms in Europe 2022 cover featuring Bersani Law Firm
Manage HR Magazine · 2022

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 plate, 2022
Le Fonti · March 2022

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 Legal Excellence recommended firm badge, Italy, 2023
The Lawyers Global · Two consecutive years

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.

7–8 October 2025

IMI Connect 2025 — Rome

Speaker on Italian residence programmes for investors and high-net-worth individuals, at the Investment Migration Insider event.

The event →
18 November 2024

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 →
December 2025

Italy Golden Visa webinar — NomadGate

Speaker on the Italian investor visa, alongside an article written for NomadGate on the programme.

The article →
7 May 2021

Uglobal Immigration Expo — South America

Speaker on the Italian investor visa and the Italian residence-by-investment programme.

3–4 February 2021

Uglobal Immigration Expo — South Africa

Speaker on the Italian residence-by-investment programme.

9 December 2020

Wealth, Tax Planning and Immigration Expo — United States

Speaker on the Italian investor visa.

Press

Interviews and publications

Business Insider ItaliaInterview on the Italian investor visa programme.
Investment Migration InsiderInterviews on the Italian investor visa, with the 2022 update, and on citizenship by descent applications.
Italy MagazineInterview on the requirements and procedure for citizenship by descent.
The Italian TimesArticles on Italian citizenship, in Italian.
EUBusiness NewsFeature on citizenship by descent.
Italian Roots and GenealogyPodcast interview on the Elective Residence Visa.
A note on the name. There is a well-known Italian economist and essayist also called Marco Bersani, who writes on public water and on economic policy. He is a different person. This Marco Bersani is an Italian lawyer in Verona, admitted in Verona and in Madrid, working on citizenship and immigration law. If you arrived here looking for the economist, you want the other one.

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.

Please, write it correctly – or it will be impossible to reply to you back.
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