About

After starting his career at private practice law firms, Luca Braulin moved in-house to the international banking and financial services sector first with ING, and later at Pioneer Investments, and UniCredit. Assuming the role as head of legal and compliance for The Royal Bank of Scotland in Italy in 2012, Braulin leads an internal team as well as managing outside counsel in overseeing all domestic and cross-border legal and regulatory issues for the Italian branch of the banking group. ‘Creating value’ is what Braulin cites as being the main focus of his work, and with that end in mind has achieved success by ‘increasing efficiency and improving work quality, whilst cutting external counsel costs by 30%’. Braulin enjoys a very good relationship with the CEO, which is based on being a business partner in addition to being a lawyer; acting as a key source of commercial as well as legal advice ‘to help to develop the bank going forward’. Braulin also sits on the executive committee, enabling him to develop ‘good business acumen’ and the chance to ‘exercise key influence on the most important decisions’ combining commercial astuteness with a solid legal background. Citing a ‘proven history of succeeding in complex matrixed environments and when working under pressure’, Braulin has received both internal and external recognition, perhaps most notably by achieving positive results in 25 concurrent tax lawsuits in 2014.