Banking & Finance Law

Italian avvocato admitted to the Court of Cassation and English qualified solicitor.

Partner of BSVA Studio Legale Associato, heading the banking & finance department of the Firm, including restructuring and capital markets and, upon need, litigation.

Marco Lantelme Partner

BSVA Studio Legale Associato

Tel: +39 02 783 811 m.lantelme@bsva.it www.bsva.it

He has handled, in his career, transactions for an aggregate value in excess of € 75 billion, often drafting all relevant documents. He has been working in these areas of practice for 30 years. He has been assisting leading Italian and international banking groups and industrial groups and companies in dozens of financial, banking, corporate M&A and restructuring deals. As part of his professional activity in the last three years, he has advised clients on the setting up of over twenty Italian companies for non-Italian listed groups and provided related comprehensive legal advice.

Based in Milan, he also assists clients in managing relations with regulatory authorities such as, among others, the Bank of Italy, Consob (the Italian securities and exchange commission), IVASS (the Italian insurance authority), the Italian Ministry of the Economy and Finance, the Italian Ministry of Enterprises and the ECB.

He is reported as an expert in banking & finance law and restructuring by several publications and researchers. He has been a contributor to national and international legal publications and a speaker at conferences and seminars in Italy and abroad. He serves as a chairman and as a board member of companies belonging to listed international groups and has chaired AmCham task force on insurance in Italy.

He is an appointed expert (esperto nominato) for the negotiation of settlements (composizione negoziata) out of the official list for the Italian Chambers of Commerce and the Tribunal of Milan, in restructuring transactions, he also serves as member of the Supervisory Committee of one of the largest Extraordinary Administration procedures in Italy. He is a correspondent for Italy of a leading banking & finance law journal, and has also contributed to the drafting, or revision, of some Italian laws and regulations in banking & finance and insurance matters.

He holds an Italian university law degree (cum laude) and an English university law degree and has passed the English solicitor finals at the College of Law in London.

Partner of a law firm since 2004, prior to joining the firm as a partner, he spent more than eight years as a partner in a historic Italian law firm, heading banking & finance, and more than fifteen years in three of the top five UK international law firms, working both in Milan and in the City of London, out of which approximately the last five years as a partner. He is bilingual in Italian and English.