Legal

Legal advisor specialized in Banking & Finance, Capital markets and Regulatory, Corporate M&A, Private Equity and Venture Capital, Shipping & Cruising

Before joining CBA in May 2017 as Partner, Francesco developed his professional experience working for leading Italian and international law firms, initially as Associate, and from 2014 as Partner in the Milan office of an international law firm (Watson Farley & Williams).He mainly advises domestic and international banks on banking law, asset finance and structured finance. His experience also includes advising financial institutions, corporates and investors on real estate finance, project finance, asset finance (with a special focus on transactions made in the field of port sector and shipping, also for M&A issues), and structured finance

Italian, English, German

Admitted to practive in 2005 

Lecturer at Master and specialization courses in the field of Banking and Financial Law.

Member of the European Society for Banking and Financial Law (AEDBF) and member of the Italian institute on Real Estate Evaluation (IsIVI)

J.D. University of Florence.

Post graduate diploma in Islamic Banking and Insurance at Institute of Islamic Banking and Insurance in London (2005)

LL.M. (Finance) at the Institute of Law and Finance in Frankfurt (Germany) in 2003/2004

Training in German Law at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Muenchen (Germany)