Angelo became partner at LEXIA Avvocati in 2021. He regularly assists Italian and foreign financial institutions in relation to the regulation of banking, financial, insurance, investment and payment services. He has gained a significant experience in the analysis and launch of business projects in the Fintech space, and contributed to the establishment of several innovative Fintech platforms.

Angelo assists clients in the setting-up and marketing of alternative investment funds, especially those specialized in private debt, direct lending and non-performing loans. He also worked on several M&A transactions (acquisitions, mergers, corporate reorganizations, transfers of business, transfers of loans or insurance portfolios) and capital market deals, with a particular focus on financial institutions and Fintech companies.

Before joining LEXIA Avvocati, Angelo worked for top-tier international law firms in Milan and Rome, as well as at the Frankfurt office of Gleiss Lutz in Germany as visiting attorney (Gastanwalt). Angelo started practicing as trainee at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP and worked as associate for three years at Chiomenti law firm. He then practiced for over five years as senior associate at White & Case LLP. As said, in 2014-2015 he was visiting attorney at Gleiss Lutz in Frankfurt am Main and in 2019 was seconded at the London office of White & Case LLP.

He also worked as intern at the Bank of Italy in the context of the “Donato Menichella” program, where he contributed to the implementation of the AIFMD Directive in Italy, and at the Supervisory Law Division of the European Central Bank, which oversees, among others, the legal issues surrounding the functioning of the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM).

Member of the Italian Bar Association

Partner | Head of Financial Institutions; Co-head of FinTech, Crypto-Assets and Blockchain.

Angelo graduated at the University of Roma Tre in 2009. He was admitted to the Bar in 2012. In 2015 Angelo completed the LL.M. Finance at the Institute for Law and Finance of the Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main (Germany) in 2015.