Crystal & Giannoni-Crystal LLC

Crystal & Giannoni-Crystal, LLC is a legal services firm in Charleston, SC. The boutique practice serves individuals, companies, and other law firms, with a particular focus on lawyers-for-lawyers services, international legal matters, and contract and business services. Founded and operated by Nathan Crystal and Francesca Giannoni-Crystal, the firm draws on nearly four decades of Nathan Crystal's work in contract law and professional responsibility, and Francesca Giannoni-Crystal's career spanning Italy and the United States advising industrial, commercial, and technological companies, banks, financial institutions, and law firms on contractual, international, technology, and corporate matters. The firm maintains offices in SC, New York, and Washington, DC, and supports clients in the United States and abroad through a network of local counsel.

The firm's work centers on three practice areas: lawyers-for-lawyers services, international services, and contract and business services. Within contract law, the firm offers general advice, expert witness testimony in American and English courts, contract drafting and negotiation, and arbitration and mediation of contract disputes. In professional responsibility and ethics, services include formal ethics opinions, retainer-based advice to law firms, representation of attorneys and judges before the SC Commission on Lawyer Conduct and the Commission on Judicial Conduct, arbitration and mediation on ethics matters, and continuing legal education presentations. The international practice covers cross-border agreements such as licensing, distribution, cooperation, intercompany, and employment agreements, with experience in Italy, the UK, Spain, Germany, the United States, Brazil, Argentina, Australia, India, China, Indonesia, and Hong Kong. The firm also advises on technology and Internet agreements, data protection and privacy (including GDPR compliance), and civil-common law bridging for both transactions and litigation. Services are available in English, Italian, and Spanish, with advice on documents and transactions in German, French, and Portuguese.

The office is on Marbel Lane in Charleston, SC 29403.