Dentons

Banking and Finance

Valerio Lemma is an of counsel in the Banking and Finance practice. He focuses on asset management, banking, financial and insurance regulation.

Valerio has extensive experience in structuring and implementing investment funds (including credit and real estate funds) and regularly advises financial institutions and other regulated entities with respect to a broad range of regulatory matters and dealings with regulators.

He is also highly experienced in the field of Fintech, Insurtech and digital payment services, where he provides assistance in relation to legal and regulatory issues. He authored several scientific papers and a monograph focused on the Fintech sector (“Fintech Regulation: Exploring New Challenges of the Capital Markets Union” Springer, 2020) and also participated in primary roundtables and conferences on this topic.

Valerio is Full Professor of Economics Law at “Università degli Studi G. Marconi” and he is the author of several monographs and publications on scientific journals (he is in the Top 10% of authors on SSRN - by all-time downloads – SSRN is a network devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks). He also teaches Economics Law at Luiss Guido Carli University in Rome.

He has been awarded the Italian grant for research project (PRIN 2020 - Projects of Relevant National Interest) in the context of academic activities funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (MIUR), as Principal Investigator of a project on “Regulating technological driven finance: activities, subjects and supervision in the digital era.”

In 2024, he was appointed as a member of the Consultative Working Group (CWG) of ESMA’s Investment Management Standing Committee (IMSC).

English, Italian

Admitted to the Bar, Rome, 2009

Admitted to the Supreme Court, Italy, 2014

University of Rome 'LUISS Guido Carli', 2010, PhD, “Economia e tecnica della finanza di progetto”

University of Rome 'LUISS Guido Carli', 2006, JD

University of Rome 'LUISS Guido Carli', 2003, Degree in Economics