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Compliance - Commercial, Corporate and M&A

Senior Partner

Alessandro De Nicola is member of Orrick's Global Board of Directors, Senior Partner of the Italian offices in Milan and Rome, and has acted as European Corporate Group Leader.

Alessandro has extensive experience in commercial and corporate law, M&A, competition law and corporate governance. He has worked on complex domestic and cross-border corporate transactions including acquisitions and corporate restructurings for some of the most important players in the market. He leads extensive corporate governance projects with a particular focus on Legislative Decree 231.

Alessandro has pleaded in front of the Italian Antitrust Authority (AGCOM), Consob (the public authority responsible for regulating the Italian securities market), ECB (European Central Bank), Bank of Italy and civil and administrative courts.

Prior to joining Orrick, Alessandro was the national director of the Italian legal department of Studio Legale Tributario Ernst & Young. He earned his degree at Catholic University in Milan in 1985 and at Cambridge University he earned an LL.M. in 1989 and a Ph.D. in Corporate Law and Economics in 2007.

Since 2000 Alessandro has been teaching as adjunct professor in advanced corporate law and since 2011 in comparative business and European law at Bocconi University in Milan. He also served as scientific coordinator of the Master in Business Law organized by Il Sole 24 Ore Business School.

Alessandro has been a regular columnist for Il Sole 24 Ore from 2000 to 2011. Since 2011, he has been a columnist for L'Espresso, the weekly newsmagazine with the largest circulation in Italy, and for the daily newspaper La Repubblica. Since 2017, he regularly authors articles also for the Italian newspapers La Stampa and Il Foglio.

He has served and is currently member of the Board of Directors as well as chairman or member of a number of Vigilance Bodies of several Italian and international companies and financial institutions.

Italian, English, French

Milan Bar Association Auditor, registered in the Register of Certified Auditors Chairman, The Adam Smith Society Chairman, Oxford and Cambridge Alumni Society of Northern Italy Member, Scientific Committee of the Italian Banking, Insurance and Finance Federation (FeBAF) Member of the International Scientific Committee - Department of Economics - of the Luigi Einaudi Foundation Former member, Scientific Committee of ANIA (Associazione Nazionale tra le Imprese Assicuratrici/ National Association of Insurance Companies) Former member, Scientific Committee of ABI-ANIA Former member, Working Group for the dissemination of biotechnologies established at the Presidency of the Council of Ministers

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano, J.D., 1985 Cambridge University, LL.M., 1989 Cambridge University, Ph.D., 2007 Cambridge University, Executive Master in Business Administration - MBA,  2018