About

Gianluca Di Nunzio is the head of legal for Italy at global online payments company PayPal, and leads a team that is spread out over several European Union countries from his base in Milan. Describing the his multinational legal department, Di Nunzio explains that there are ‘colleagues in Paris and Amsterdam reporting into me as I am responsible for legal affairs in Benelux and legal marketing affairs for the Central European region’. Preferring to see their work within the context of a ‘business unit effort rather than a strictly legal team set-up’, Di Nunzio is particularly proud of the innovation the team has overseen – ‘not just in Italy but in EMEA’ – including assistance with creating initiatives like PayPal Carica; ‘an app which gives Italian PayPal users the ability to top up their mobile phones, the first time PayPal developed an app for the Italian market’. The project took three years and was subject to ‘very high media coverage, and the legal team received a number of compliments from the PayPal CEO in the US and EMEA regions’ according to Di Nunzio. In addition to these innovations, the team is well-placed to deal with the emerging regulation that affects PayPal at the EMEA level, including a number of directives that ‘require constant assessment and analysis’, as well as the developments in the fintech business. Speaking daily with PayPal Italy’s general manager, with whom Di Nunzio shares a ‘live interaction’ with, the team operate with a ‘good and frequent interaction at all places’, including the company’s base in the United States, where he states ‘we had the opportunity to take care of several products with US colleagues and the vice president based in the US’, evincing the recognition of the value of the team in whichever geographical locale they operate in.