Partners and Professionals of the Firm

Alongside his legal practice, he has extensive experience serving on the management bodies of banks and companies. Since 2018, he has been an independent director of an Italian bank, where he chairs the Related-Party Transactions Committee.

He is also an independent director of a leading Italian fashion and leather goods group and of its affiliated foundation dedicated to contemporary art.

His previous board appointments include an investment company, a company operating a fintech lending platform for businesses, and a real estate group.

He is a member of Ned Community, the Italian association of non-executive and independent directors and members of corporate governance and supervisory bodies.

He has published work on corporate and financial law and was a Research Fellow in Commercial Law at the University of Verona.

He teaches and speaks at professional events on corporate law, corporate distress, bank guarantees, transparency, related-party transactions and anti-money laundering legislation.

He graduated with honours in Law from the University of Bologna, with a dissertation on stock exchange contracts in financial markets law, supervised by Professor Renzo Costi and Professor Luca Enriques. He subsequently worked with both professors on research in commercial and financial markets law.

He is a member of the board of statutory auditors of a local public transport company classified as a public-interest entity (EIP) and a director of a long-established housing co-operative.

His previous roles include independent director and member of the Control and Risk Committee of one of Italy’s largest consumer co-operatives, statutory auditor of a financial consortium in the co-operative sector, statutory auditor of an occupational health and safety services company, and independent director of a University of Bologna spin-off operating in food safety.

He has served on the governing body of the Associazione Nazionale delle Cooperative di Consumatori (ANCC), the Italian National Association of Consumer Co-operatives.

He has also served, and continues to serve, as an insolvency practitioner in judicial liquidation proceedings, a liquidator in the compulsory administrative liquidation of co-operative societies, a liquidator appointed under Article 114-bis of the Italian Crisis and Insolvency Code (CCII) in a going-concern composition with creditors, and a special representative appointed by the Court of Bologna.

He was a Research Fellow and a contract lecturer in Commercial Law at the University of Trento.

He chairs the Bologna ODCEC study committee on co-operative societies (Ordine dei Dottori Commercialisti e degli Esperti Contabili).

He has published work and teaches and speaks on co-operative law, corporate law and corporate distress.

He graduated in Law from the University of Bologna, with a dissertation in commercial law on the financing of co-operative societies.

He obtained a PhD in Commercial Law from the University of Rome Tor Vergata, with a dissertation on co-operative societies.

She is the author of publications on corporate and financial markets law.

She graduated with honours in Law from the University of Bologna, with a dissertation in financial markets law on cross-shareholdings in listed companies, supervised by Professor Renzo Costi. She subsequently worked with him on research in commercial and financial markets law.

She obtained a PhD in Corporate and Financial Markets Law from the University of Bologna, with a dissertation on conflicts of interest involving minority shareholders.

She was an Academic Visitor at the London School of Economics.

Within the Firm, he handles the employment aspects of corporate transactions, reorganisations and insolvency proceedings managed by the business law practice. He also conducts civil litigation, particularly contractual disputes, liability claims, inheritance matters and enforcement proceedings.

He was a member of the Council of the Bologna Bar Association, acting as its representative for employment law and for the Italian electronic civil proceedings system (Processo Civile Telematico).

He was a member of the Bologna Observatory on Civil Justice and of the Employment Contract Certification Commission established at the Bologna Territorial Labour Inspectorate.

He was also a national council member of the Associazione Nazionale Forense and deputy secretary of the Associazione Sindacale Avvocati di Bologna e dell’Emilia-Romagna.

He has spoken at numerous professional training seminars and conferences organised by the Fondazione Forense Bolognese and other bodies and associations, on employment law and civil procedure.

He teaches civil law and civil procedure on postgraduate courses preparing candidates for the Italian bar examination.

He graduated with honours in Law from the University of Bologna, with a dissertation in employment law on collective bargaining and labour market flexibility.