About

Overseeing two teams as part of his multifaceted role, Davide Spreafico leads both the legal advice and legal shared services (including litigation and governance) functions at Barclays Italy, a position he has held since May 2011. A highly competent and specialised lawyer with vast experience in his field, Spreafico has several years of leadership managing in-house legal teams in banks, intermediaries and financial institutions. More recently, Spreafico has successfully led a huge restructuring effort of Barclays’ Italian legal team with the view to designing a tailor-made function that is able to meet changing company strategy and priorities. In assessing and outlining objectives and keeping a close eye on the implementation of these changes, the end result saw new procedures imposed that have been proven to ‘improve efficiency, delivery and savings’. Additionally, results-driven Spreafico has also managed to achieve risk reduction via ‘promptly tackling and properly escalating the main issues’, requiring prioritisation and allocation of resources appropriately. Spreafico points to several highlights during his in-house career, including notable transactions involving the recovery of €37m form a bankruptcy procedure, digitisation of the premier bank in 2013-2014 involving a complete review of the legal documents, advising the projects stakeholders, dealing with regulators, plus the restructuring of the retail business and the management of the asset transfer deal in 2015. Spreafico’s previous experience includes terms at Allianz Bank and FinecoGroup S.p.A., where he accrued his knowledge of the sector and the experience in founding and running in-house legal departments he draws on to this day.