Alessandro Portolano > Chiomenti > Milan, Italy > Lawyer Profile
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Alessandro Portolano

Work Department
Partner - Financial Regulations
Position
Alessandro advises Italian and foreign financial institutions in relation to all areas of the banking, financial, insurance, payment services and asset management regulations. He advises banks, asset managers, and other financial institutions on regulatory issues concerning the structuring and execution of extraordinary and complex M&A and financial transactions. His experience includes ex novo charters and assistance in proceedings before Italian and European Regulators, regulatory enforcement matters, structuring of business models, and entry into new markets. He has assisted the Bank of Italy in relation to complex and innovative matters.
Career
Alessandro Portolano joined Chiomenti in 2003 and become partner in 2008. Since 2024 Head of the “Litigation & Advisory” Department and Co-Head of the “Financial Regulation” Practice Area.
Languages
Italian, English
Memberships
Member of the Rome Bar (Italy), 1998
Education
Graduated in Law, L.U.I.S.S. Guido Carli University, Rome (Italy), 1993
LL.M., University of Chicago Law School (US), 1999
Executive Education, Leadership in Law Firms, Harvard University, Cambridge (US), 2017
Lawyer Rankings
Italy > Banking and finance: Bank regulatory
(Hall of Fame)According to one client, Chiomenti fields the ‘best financial regulatory practice in Italy’. The broad financial regulations practice ranges from prudential regulations and distribution arrangements, to organisational structures, extraordinary transactions, corporate governance and consumer matters. ‘Great with his advice’, Alessandro Portolano‘s expertise covers the gamut of banking, financial, insurance, payment services and asset management regulations; Vincenzo Troiano
‘s career includes working at the Bank of Italy; Felice Azzollini advises on banking, insurance and financial markets-related mandates; and Flavia Pagnanelli assists supervised entities from the banking, financial and insurance sectors.
Italy > Investment funds
Routinely working alongside the firm’s banking, insurance, real estate, corporate, tax and finance groups, Chiomenti‘s investment funds team is experienced in setting-up investment funds, as well as transactions involving funds. The practice is co-led by Vincenzo Troiano, a regular adviser to pension funds, open-ended investment companies, real estate investment trusts, and reserved alternative investment funds; and Alessandro Portolano
, whose career includes working at the Bank of Italy. Other key practitioners are Giuseppe Andrea Giannantonio, who assists with transactions involving real estate investment funds, and Felice Azzollini and Flavia Pagnanelli.
Lawyer Rankings
- Banking and finance: Bank regulatory Italy
- Hall of Fame Italy > Banking and finance: Bank regulatory
- Investment funds Italy
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Administrative and public law
- Banking and finance: Bank regulatory
- Banking and finance: Borrower side
- Banking and finance: lender or arranger side
- Capital markets: Debt
- Capital markets: Equity
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution
- Employment
- EU and competition law
- Industry focus: Luxury goods
- Industry focus: Retail
- Private equity
- Real estate and construction
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Tax