How do you approach managing legal aspects during periods of instability or crises, and how does your legal strategy align with the broader business strategy to ensure the organization’s resilience?

Based on my experience, senior legal leaders’ strategies on crisis management typically involve mapping, assessing and mitigating risks that could lead to legal/financial liabilities and reputational harm for organisations.

During a crisis, this process is in fact critical, as the stakes are higher, and the potential for significant legal repercussions increases.

In that context, safe and sound legal risk management ensures that organisations are prepared to navigate the complex legal and reputational landscape that emerges in the wake of a crisis.

By proactively managing legal risks, organizations can thus better protect themselves from lawsuits, regulatory penalties, and reputational damage.

Legal risk management during a crisis involves more than just responding to legal threats as they arise: it calls for a comprehensive approach that covers understanding the legal environment, preparing for potential legal challenges, and aligning legal strategies with broader crisis management efforts.

The objectives of such are deeply inter-connected with the organization’s business goals: hence, senior legal leaders like me are usually very mindful that the above crisis management approach must fit into a broader strategy aimed at defending and facilitating the company-wide business, operational and communications targets

What are the major cases or transactions you have been involved in recently?

In H1/2025 I was involved in several structured finance transactions, such as very sizeable securitizations, trade finance and lending transactions for and with major Italian corporate clients; also, I successfully managed a very complex litigation involving several parties, legal systems and venues. Last but least, I covered pretty profitable derivative transactions.

What emerging technologies do you see as having the most significant impact on the legal profession in the near future, and how do you stay updated on these developments?

AGENTIC AI

Agentic AI is supposedly the most disruptive innovation: in fact, it seems able to automate most or all knowledge work job functions, as well as several types of contracts (the agentic contracts or smart legal contracts). A small group of experts will reap enormous benefits while junior artists, paralegals, software developers, journalists and many others will see job opportunities fade away. It could be a seismic shift driven by market economics that would compel every employer to embrace technology. It is hard to play down the potential impact that agentic AI may have on nearly every business.

CYBERSECURITY

With the opportunities in AI opening the tech-environment, there is an increasing challenge on cybersecurity: fraudsters will also update their technologies; this increased risk will call for increased layers of security and privacy around data. This may entail a tremendous wave of new opportunities to further enhance the security Infrastructure across edge, cloud and business.

ESG

With increased focus on environment and dustainability, and lot more policies and government regulations, there will be increased need of adopting ESG initiatives from carbon neutral to energy, will push further the need to connect supply chains, better product quality, waste and water management, and having governance around various ESG metrics to better report and manage the business.

In your opinion, what are the main trends that are salient in your country currently (these can be legal, political, economy or business-based)?

Italy is facing a deep demographic crisis, being one of the countries with the lowest fertility rates in the world. The population has not grown naturally since 2006, and immigration has not offset the decline. Hence, the number of Italian residents has been decreasing since 2015, a trend that is expected to continue for decades. In that context, single-person households have become the most popular family structure. Conversely, Italians enjoy one of the highest life expectancies globally. These factors contribute to an aging population, raising serious concerns about the long-term sustainability of the social security and healthcare systems and about the labor market: in fact, the tax-payers population shrinks, while the demand for public health services and pensions grows; on top of that, the overall workforce goes down, tanking the internal rate of productivity and the global output of the Italian economic system.