Mr Diego Bobbo > Bird & Bird > Milan, Italy > Lawyer Profile

Bird & Bird
VIA BORGOGNA 8
20122 MILANO
Italy

Work Department

Finance and Financial Services

Position

Senior Associate

Career

Diego focuses on the challenges arising from continuous changes to the European and international financial markets, and advise clients on the assessment and implementation of related legal and regulatory changes.

As a member of the Finance & Financial Regulation Group in Milan, his interests are in different areas of European and Italian regulation of capital markets, banking, investment services, insurance and asset management.

He spends most of his time assisting major banks, investment firms, asset managers and insurance undertakings in shaping their business in compliance with relevant legal and regulatory requirements, and helping them to take advantage of opportunities arising from continuous development of applicable frameworks.

His activities range from supporting clients on the structuring of their internal governance and procedures, the building of their distribution networks, the management of their relationships with supervisory authorities (also in the context of sanction proceedings), the provision of banking and investment services and the creation and distribution of investment vehicles, financial instruments and insurance products of any kind.

Furthermore, he has relevant expertise in supporting clients on understanding and dealing with legal and regulatory challenges arising from the application of innovative technologies in their business sectors, as well as in developing and implementing fintech and insurtech solutions.

I also has experience assisting on issues arising from rules on insurance distribution, derivatives, anti-money laundering and market abuse.

Languages

Italian, English

Education

Education
Università Commerciale ‘Luigi Bocconi’ di Milan;
MSc Law

Admissions
Italian Bar Association

Lawyer Rankings

Italy > Banking and finance: Bank regulatory

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.