Banking and Financial Regulation

Sergio Visalli is Senior Associate at Alma LED within the Banking & Financial Regulation Department based in Rome.

Sergio is specialized in the regulation of banking, insurance, financial and investment services. He regularly advises Italian and foreign clients in the areas of governance, compliance (including transparency, anti-money laundering and privacy), conduct of business and prudential rules, product regulation, as well as in the context of extraordinary transactions with relevant regulatory profiles and supervisory and sanctioning proceedings in the various areas of finance.

Sergio is also an expert on cryptocurrency regulation; NFTs and decentralised finance.

He has gained experience in assisting both national and international industrial groups and financial institutions by providing support in relation to both ordinary business (including cross-border) and financing transactions (corporate, leveraged and acquisition finance) as well as M&A transactions.

2019-today  Alma LED (formerly Alma STA) - senior associate

2023-2023  Secondee – Legal Office Enel X Financial Services S.r.l.

2022-2023  Secondee – Legal Office PayTipper Istituto di Pagamento S.p.A.

2018-2019   CMS Adonnino Ascoli & Cavasola Scamoni - associate

2017-2018   Gianni, Orrigoni, Grippo, Cappelli & Partners - junior associate

Italian, English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Romanian, Greek

2024  Admitted to the Luxembourg Bar (Liste IV)

2022  Executive Course on 'Islamic Banking & Finance', International Chamber of Commerce, Rome

2021  LLM in Data Protection, University of Lisbon, Portugal

2020  Certificate - Blockchain Innovation Manager, ITALY4BLOCKCHAIN Association, Milan

2019  Admitted to the Italian Bar

2019  LLM in Financial Markets Regulation, Università LUISS, Rome

2017  Bachelor Degree in Law cum laude, Università degli Studi di Messina, Messina

2016   Master in Droit interne et international de l’Arbitrage, Université de Montpellier, France

2015   Faculty of Law, University of Lisbon, Portugal

2014   Executive Course in International Private Law, The Hague Academy of International Law, The Netherlands

2014   Faculty of Law, University of Bonn, Germany

2013   Faculty of Law, University Complutense of Madrid