Eurispes, bankruptcies of Italian companies and appeals to procedures are growing

The number of Italian companies declaring bankruptcy continues to increase and the use of tools to manage corporate crises is also growing.

At the end of 2025, judicial settlements reached 9,869 procedures, an increase of 7.2% on 2024.

Looking instead at the overall number of all the various types of crises, it is 13,470, again in 2025, with an increase of 15.5% compared to the previous year.

This was revealed by a study by Eurispes, based on data from Unioncamere and the Cribis survey, which highlights how approximately 20% of new businesses close within the first two years of activity, "demonstrating - we read - the fragility of the system".

Another increase is that of the use of the tools provided for by the Corporate Crisis and Insolvency Code.

In particular, the use of negotiated settlements with more than 1,776 requests in 2025, followed by the use of simplified compositions (143 requests in 2025 compared to 85 presented in 2024).

"In such a context - we read in the study -, the Corporate Crisis Code has introduced various crisis regulation procedures which, if not correctly managed, could represent a sort of self-generated 'pardon', capable of reducing, if not eliminating, debts, even millions, accumulated over the years not only towards private individuals, but also towards the State and in particular the Treasury, therefore to the detriment of the entire community".