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Ms Rossella Sansone
Work Department
Finance and Financial Services
Position
Partner
Career
As a partner in Bird & Bird Finance & Financial Regulation Group in Milan, she is a specialist in the regulation of financial markets, with extensive experience in asset management and financial services.
Since she joined Bird & Bird in 2004, her focus has been on banking, financial services and asset management regulation, advising prestigious financial institutions on their core business and regulatory compliance.
She represents domestic and international asset managers, banks, financial intermediaries, investment firms and insurance companies in regulatory and compliance matters, offering specific expertise in the organisational and procedural requirements set forth by the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID), the Undertaking for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities Directive (UCITS Directive), and the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD).
My work includes drafting agreement and related documents for banking, financial and insurance products and services; advising clients on regulatory issues, including disputes with regulatory authorities, and drafting essential operational agreements for financial institutions such as distribution agreements, outsourcing agreements and tied agent agreements.
In recent years, I have been involved in the incorporation of Italian asset management companies and collective investment schemes, including UCITS and non-UCITS funds, as well as setting up organisational models to be implemented by foreign UCITS when marketing their units in Italy.
Education
Education
Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi – Milan, Law Degree, 2003
Admissions
Italian Bar Association, 2007
Lawyer Rankings
Italy > Compliance
Advising on the entire spectrum of compliance work, Bird & Bird‘s Italy practice houses experts in regulatory compliance, corporate 231 matters, data protection, cybersecurity and product compliance. The team’s expertise also covers advertising pre-clearance, consumer protection and antitrust. Key figures include financial regulation specialist Raimondo Maggiore; Stefano Febbi, a regulatory compliance adviser; and Simone Caddedu, who focuses on EU and Italian administrative regulation. In addition, the department features Rossella Sansone, who is experienced in asset management and financial services, and Federico Marini Balestra, a former legal officer at the Italian Communications Authority.
Italy > Banking and finance: Bank regulatory
(Next Generation Partners)Bird & Bird‘s wide-ranging expertise covers investment services, compliance with capital requirements, marketing investment funds and issuing financial products. Other key areas range from market abuse, insurance distribution and fintech, to sustainable finance regulation, AML, derivatives, consumer credit and payment services. Financial regulation specialist Raimondo Maggiore heads the banking and financial markets regulation department, which features Stefano Febbi, an expert in banking, financial services and insurance regulation; and Rossella Sansone, who routinely advises on asset management and financial services. Other active practitioners are Annapaola Schino, Diego Bobbo and Diego Cefaro.
Italy > Investment funds
Including former officers from the Supervisory Authorities, Bird & Bird‘s banking and financial markets regulation team practice is experienced in UCITS, as well as real estate, credit, and private equity alternative investment funds. The group is jointly headed by financial regulation specialist Raimondo Maggiore, an active adviser to Italian and international asset management companies on structuring real estate and private equity funds; and asset management and financial services expert Rossella Sansone. Sansone and Giovanni Bevilacqua, who assists fund managers with structuring investment products, are ‘remarkable for their deep legal expertise‘.
Lawyer Rankings
- Next Generation Partners Italy > Banking and finance: Bank regulatory
- Banking and finance: Bank regulatory Italy
- Compliance Italy
- Investment funds Italy
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Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance: Bank regulatory
- Compliance
- Investment funds
- Administrative and public law
- Data privacy and data protection
- Dispute resolution
- Employment
- Industry focus: Energy
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- Industry focus: TMT
- Capital markets: Equity
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- EU and competition law
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Banking and finance: Borrower side
- Banking and finance: lender or arranger side
- Real estate and construction
- Tax
- Private equity