About

Nicola Verdicchio joined Pirelli Group, the Italian tyremaker and one of Europe’s best-known industrial brands, as chief legal officer in January 2014 in charge of all legal issues, international corporate affairs as well as of all the IP activities of the group. During his time at Pirelli he was involved in the company’s global restructuring, where he was instrumental to the segregation of consumer and industrial areas of all tangible and intangible assets of the group in the context of Pirelli delisting in 2015, and then its subsequent relisting on the Milan Stock Exchange in 2017. Prior to this role he served as group senior vice president of Italy’s main telecommunications group and important international player, Telecom Italia, where he was appointed head of international legal affairs department, in charge of the legal assistance on the international business activities of Telecom Italia Group and, afterwards, of all domestic and international M&A activities. In 1999, he was appointed head of international business development within the legal and corporate affairs department of Telecom Italia Group. Prior this role, in 1987, he joined Stet (Società Finanziaria Telefonica), covering a variety of roles within the legal and corporate affairs department of the company and in 1997 he was appointed head of the legal and corporate affairs department of the multinational company Stet International.