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Emanuele Umberto Aurilia

Emanuele Umberto Aurilia

Work Department

Investment Funds & Financial Regulation group

Position

Emanuele is a senior managing associate in the Investment Funds & Financial Regulation group based in Milan.

He has extensive experience in relation to investment funds and related financial regulation matters, including structuring, setting-up, authorisation, restructuring and liquidation of regulated fund managers (AIFM) and alternative investment funds. He regularly provides assistance related to designing, structuring and implementation of bespoke complex and innovative regulated fund structures with real estate, credit, turnaround and private equity strategies.

He also has extensive experience in financial regulation, advising on complex regulatory issues in the field of investment management, fintech, banking and insurance industry. His experience includes, inter alia, advising on authorisation of regulated entities, reorganization of financial groups, Brexit, AIFMD, MiFID II, ESG legislation, PSD II, CRR, prudential regulation, anti-money laundering/ anti-terrorism legislation, change in control, reorganisations, outsourcing as well as conduct of business rules.

Furthermore, he regularly assists financial institutions and sponsors in connection with any regulatory aspect of M&A/Capital markets/banking transactions as well as ordinary and extraordinary transactions involving financial industry-specific regulations.

Career

2021 to date: Senior Managing Associate, Linklaters Milan

2016 to 2021: Managing Associate, Linklaters Milan

2013 to 2014: Legal counsel (secondment), Barclays Bank PLC, Milan Branch

2010 to 2016: Associate, Linklaters Milan

2007-2010: Trainee, Linklaters Milan

2007: Stagiaire, Studio Legale Loiacono e Associati, Milan

Languages

English, Italian

Memberships

Admitted to the Milan Bar Association in 2010

Education

2005-2007: Master of Science in Law (J.D., magna cum laude), Università Commerciale “Luigi Bocconi”, Milan, Italy

2006: Summer School Program, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

2002-2005: Degree in Law, Università Commerciale “Luigi Bocconi”, Milan, Italy

2004: Campus Abroad Program, New York University, New York City, USA

2002: Secondary School Diploma (Maturità Classica), Liceo Classico Istituto Zaccaria, Milan, Italy

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