Mr Marco Penna > Legance - Avvocati Associati > Milan, Italy > Lawyer Profile

Legance - Avvocati Associati
VIA BROLETTO 20
20121 MILAN
Italy

Work Department

Financial Intermediaries Regulation - Compliance - Corporate Finance - Insurance

Position

Partner

Career

Marco Penna is the Head of the Financial Intermediaries Regulations Department and has extensive experience regarding financial markets, with particular focus on investment services, securities offerings and off-site offerings. He regularly assists clients in relation to banking law, including regulatory capital and financial intermediaries incorporated under Article 106 of the Italian Banking Act. He has drafted agreements in relation to collective investment schemes, including UCITS and alternative investment funds, with specific reference to relevant shareholdings, shareholders activism and corporate governance. He has been involved in the incorporation of Italian asset management companies and collective investment schemes. He has provided assistance in relation to the regulatory profiles of banking, insurance and asset management M&A transactions.

Languages

Italian, English

Memberships

Member of the Milan Bar, Italy.

Education

In 2001 he graduated in Law, maxima cum laude, at Università degli Studi di Ferrara, Italy.

Lawyer Rankings

Italy > Banking and finance: Bank regulatory

(Next Generation Partners)

Marco PennaLegance – Avvocati Associati

Legance – Avvocati Associati‘s financial intermediaries regulations practice acts for banking, financial and insurance clients on an array of regulatory matters, including related litigation and M&A deals. The ‘skilled and technicalMarco Penna predominantly focuses on investment services, securities offerings and off-site offerings; Giuseppe Alessandro‘s practice encompasses both regulatory issues and compliance matters, along with capital requirements, internal governance, general business activities and product governance; and Giovanna Tassitano advises banks, insurance companies and financial institutions on regulatory issues. Banking, financial services and asset management regulation specialist Federico Vezzani joined the group in February 2024 from BonelliErede, while former partner Marco Romanelli departed the firm in July 2023.

Italy > Compliance

Legance – Avvocati Associati‘s compliance department advises on regulatory compliance, anti-money laundering, anti-corruption legislation and Decree 231 matters. The team also assists with banking and insurance compliance. Andrea Fedi has substantial experience in compliance, privacy and anti-bribery work. Marco Penna heads the firm’s financial intermediaries regulations department. Niccolò Bertolini Clerici focuses on white-collar crime-related work. The practice further includes litigator Valentina Masi, whose practice includes the administrative liability of entities.