Mr Alessandro Engst > Dentons > Rome, Italy > Lawyer Profile

Dentons
VIA XX SETTEMBRE, 5
ROME 00187
Italy

Work Department

Banking and Finance

Position

Alessandro Engst is a partner in the Banking & Finance practice and the Head of the Financial Services area in Italy.

Alessandro focuses on financial institutions regulation, derivatives and investment funds.  He has a broad range of experience advising banks, fund managers, broker-dealers, investment firms, insurance companies, payment institutions, fintech companies and pension funds on the establishment and regulation of investment funds (including NPL and private debt funds), on a wide range of derivative transactions and on regulatory matters (including advising on MIFID II, CRR/CRD IV, UCITS V, EMIR, IDD, PSD2 and ELTIF regulation).

He is the author of various banking and finance law manuals and scientific articles.

Career

Before joining Dentons, he was a partner at Eversheds Sutherland. Prior to that, he spent around 10 years at Simmons & Simmons.

Languages

English, Italian

Memberships

Admitted to the Bar, Italy, 2004

Education

Education: University of Rome “La Sapienza”, 1999, JD

Lawyer Rankings

Italy > Banking and finance: Bank regulatory

(Leading individuals)

Alessandro Engst – Dentons

Well-recognised in the market‘, Dentons‘ Italian financial services team is highly active in deals involving bank regulatory issues. Italy financial services head Alessandro Engst focuses on financial institutions’ regulations, investment funds and derivatives; and Alessandro Fosco Fagotto heads up the firm’s Italy banking and finance department. The practice further features Valerio Lemma, an adviser on on banking, financial and insurance regulation and asset management, and ‘outstanding lawyer’ Lorenzo Toppini.

Italy > Investment funds

Comprising experts from the firm’s corporate, real estate, tax, M&A, and banking and finance practices. Dentons‘ Italian team is particularly focused on the establishment of real estate, private equity and credit funds. Heading up the financial services practice in Italy, Alessandro Engst acts for banks, fund managers, investment firms, insurance companies, payment institutions, fintech companies and pension funds on regulatory matters. Engst also assists with the establishment of investment funds.