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Mr Alessandro Engst

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
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 partners)The broad offering at Dentons encompasses M&A-related regulatory filings; the establishment of regulated entities; structuring internal control systems; and banking and investment services contracts. It is also experienced in capital requirements regulations; derivatives and stock lending regulations; and anti-money laundering and anti-terrorism regulations. Alessandro Engst is a highly-rated financial services regulatory specialist; Valerio Lemma focuses on banking, financial and insurance regulation and asset management; and Lorenzo Toppini is ‘very talented’.
Italy > Investment funds
(Leading partners)Experienced in real estate, private equity and credit fund formations, Dentons‘ practice regularly works alongside the firm’s real estate and corporate M&A teams. With ‘deep knowledge of the Italian and EU funds market’, Alessandro Engst leads the Italian financial services group. Engst advises banks, fund managers, investment firms, insurance companies, payment institutions, fintech companies and pension funds on regulatory matters, as well as the establishment and regulation of investment funds.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading partners Italy > Banking and finance: Bank regulatory
- Leading partners Italy > Investment funds
- Banking and finance: Bank regulatory Italy
- Investment funds Italy
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Administrative and public law
- Banking and finance: Borrower side
- Banking and finance: lender or arranger side
- Capital markets: Debt
- Data privacy and data protection
- Dispute resolution
- Industry focus: Healthcare and life sciences
- Industry focus: TMT
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Banking and finance: Bank regulatory
- Capital markets: Equity
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Compliance
- Employment
- EU and competition law
- Investment funds
- Private equity
- Tax
- Intellectual property