He has been practicing for more than thirty years in M&A and corporate advisory particularly for companies in media, telecommunication and tech industries: his experience includes assistance to public companies on extraordinary transactions and governance matters. He has assisted boards of directors and committees of listed companies in connection with corporate transactions with profiles of particular regulatory complexity, including related party transactions, also handling relations and interactions with market and supervisory authorities. He acts as arbitrator in disputes on national and international commercial law issues.

He graduated cum laude from the Faculty of Law, University of Pisa in 1986. Winner in 1987 of one of two ‘D. Menichella’ scholarships from the Bank of Italy. In 1989, he obtained a Master of Laws degree from the University of Chicago. He then worked in New York at the firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, where he focused on corporate law.

He is a full tenure professor of commercial law at the Faculty of Economics at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, where he also teaches capital market law.

From 1 January 2004 to 31 December 2006, he was a member of the Board of Arbitrators of Borsa Italiana S.p.A., with which he then continued to collaborate as a member of the Committee of Experts for the revision of the 2010 edition of the Corporate Governance Code and participating in working groups on corporate governance issues. He has been an independent director of listed companies and a member of several committees.

Languages: Italian, English