Dentons

Banking and Finance

Alessandro Engst is a partner in the Banking & Finance practice and the Head of the Financial Services area in Italy.

Alessandro focuses on financial institutions regulation, derivatives and investment funds.  He has a broad range of experience advising banks, fund managers, broker-dealers, investment firms, insurance companies, payment institutions, fintech companies and pension funds on the establishment and regulation of investment funds (including NPL and private debt funds), on a wide range of derivative transactions and on regulatory matters (including advising on MIFID II, CRR/CRD IV, UCITS V, EMIR, IDD, PSD2 and ELTIF regulation).

He is the author of various banking and finance law manuals and scientific articles.

Before joining Dentons, he was a partner at Eversheds Sutherland. Prior to that, he spent around 10 years at Simmons & Simmons.

English, Italian

Admitted to the Bar, Italy, 2004

Education: University of Rome “La Sapienza”, 1999, JD