Ms Giovanni Bevilacqua > Bird & Bird > Milan, Italy > Lawyer Profile

Bird & Bird
VIA BORGOGNA 8
20122 MILANO
Italy

Work Department

Finance and Financial Services

Position

Counsel

Career

As a Counsel in the Finance & Financial Regulation group in Milan, Giovanni assists major Italian and EU fund managers on a wide range of legal and regulatory matters, as well as in the structuring of their investment products, with a particular focus on real estate alternative investment fund structures.

His activities range from supporting clients in relation to their authorisation process with the relevant Italian supervisory Authorities (including the structuring of their internal governance and procedures), to assisting them in the structuring, authorisation and distribution of alternative investment funds (both corporate and contractual structures), as well as in the management of their relationships with investors and supervisory authorities (also in the context of administrative sanctioning proceedings).

He is also involved on a daily basis in managing the most varied legal and compliance issues for some of the biggest Italian AIFMs as well as for EU AIFMs managing Italian AIFs, and has relevant expertise in supporting clients on understanding and dealing with challenges arising from the evolution of the applicable legal and regulatory framework.

He also regularly deals with banks and other financial intermediaries on regulatory matters and has been involved in capital markets transactions.

Languages

Italian, English

Education

Education
Università Bocconi, Doctor of Law – JD, Law
Università Bocconi, LLB, Law

Admissions
Italian Bar Association, 2010

Lawyer Rankings

Italy > Investment funds

(Rising stars)

Giovanni BevilacquaBird & 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‘.