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Italy 2016

Massimo Romano

head of legal and company secretarial department | BNP Paribas Lease Solutions

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Massimo Romano

head of legal and company secretarial department | BNP Paribas Lease Solutions

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Joining the company in October 2009 and establishing the legal department over the 2009/10 period; Massimo Romano is responsible for the structure, mission and performance of the legal department at BNP Paribas Lease Solutions. An expert in banking and finance organisations, his current role adds to Romano’s track record of successfully organising and managing legal functions, something that he had previously done at Fortis Bank and Banca 24-7. Romano’s department at BNP Paribas Lease Solutions oversee the legal needs of the five separate business units of the company plus another five entities of the wider group. A flexible and versatile manager tasked with a comprehensive remit, Romano’s department deal with matters related to advisory, client contracts, litigations and settlements, company secretarial and more. Inseparable from the wider reaches of the business, Romano saw fit to utilise existing tools within the company in efforts to improve communication lines between legal and other company functions. In expressing the biggest highlight of his in-house career, he points to the settlement of high risk cases ‘without recourse to external law firms’, evidencing the department’s internal strength. Working right at the heart of the commercial operation, Romano finds great enjoyment in ‘being involved in all the main projects and deals of the company’, evidencing the integral nature of the function he was responsible for creating. Romano credits this close interaction with the business as giving him the opportunity to work on a ‘variety of activities’ and gain a ‘deep understanding of the business’. Romano has also been a member of the company’s executive committee since September 2015.

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