Mr Raimondo Maggiore > Bird & Bird > Milan, Italy > Lawyer Profile

Bird & Bird
VIA BORGOGNA 8
20122 MILANO
Italy

Work Department

Finance and Financial Services

Position

Partner

Career

Raimondo is the co-managing partner of Bird & Bird’s Italian offices. As an expert in financial regulation, he heads our Italian banking and financial services regulatory team.

In Milan and Rome, he manages a team of about 20 professionals with banking, insurance and financial markets regulation expertise, in areas including bank capital requirements, derivatives, asset management, investment services, activities performed by way of establishment and in freedom of services, insurance and bank assurance, public offerings and pension funds.

He has a high level of expertise in contentious regulatory issues and enforcement matters. He assists primary financial operators and key individuals in proceedings before national courts and local regulatory bodies for alleged violation of laws and regulations.

He supports banks, investment managers and other financial intermediaries in defining and drafting internal procedures and manuals, and in the implementation of any relevant law and regulation.

Moreover, he assists Italian and international asset management companies in regards to the structuring of alternative investment funds, with particular focus on real estate and private equity. He also advises alternative fund managers in their ordinary and extraordinary operations, as well as in their investment and divestment transactions.

Before joining Bird & Bird in 2003, he worked in the financial intermediaries department at CONSOB (National commission for Companies and the Stock Exchange) acquiring extensive knowledge and experience in European asset management and financial services regulation.

Languages

Italian, English

Education

Education
Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali ‘LUISS – Guido Carli’, Degree in Law, 1997

Admissions
Italian Bar Association, 2003
Admitted as Attorney at Law to the Supreme Court (‘Corte di Cassazione’), 2017

Lawyer Rankings

Italy > Compliance

Advising on the entire spectrum of compliance work, Bird & Bird‘s Italy practice houses experts in regulatory compliance, corporate 231 matters, data protection, cybersecurity and product compliance. The team’s expertise also covers advertising pre-clearance, consumer protection and antitrust. Key figures include financial regulation specialist Raimondo MaggioreStefano Febbi, a regulatory compliance adviser; and Simone Caddedu, who focuses on EU and Italian administrative regulation. In addition, the department features Rossella Sansone, who is experienced in asset management and financial services, and Federico Marini Balestra, a former legal officer at the Italian Communications Authority.

Italy > Banking and finance: Bank regulatory

(Leading individuals)

Raimondo MaggioreBird & Bird

Bird & Bird‘s wide-ranging expertise covers investment services, compliance with capital requirements, marketing investment funds and issuing financial products. Other key areas range from market abuse, insurance distribution and fintech, to sustainable finance regulation, AML, derivatives, consumer credit and payment services. Financial regulation specialist Raimondo Maggiore heads the banking and financial markets regulation department, which features Stefano Febbi, an expert in banking, financial services and insurance regulation; and Rossella Sansone, who routinely advises on asset management and financial services. Other active practitioners are Annapaola SchinoDiego Bobbo and Diego Cefaro.

Italy > Investment funds

(Leading individuals)

Raimondo Maggiore – Bird & Bird

Including former officers from the Supervisory Authorities, Bird & Bird‘s banking and financial markets regulation team practice is experienced in UCITS, as well as real estate, credit, and private equity alternative investment funds. The group is jointly headed by financial regulation specialist Raimondo Maggiore, an active adviser to Italian and international asset management companies on structuring real estate and private equity funds; and asset management and financial services expert Rossella Sansone. Sansone and Giovanni Bevilacqua, who assists fund managers with structuring investment products, are ‘remarkable for their deep legal expertise‘.