Francesco Ferrini

EuroLegalNet is a network of lawyers that makes available appropriate legal counsel and assistance to Italian and international clients. The expertise of EuroLegalNet lawyers is derived directly from their academic and professional endeavours, most of which have been pursued through work for international law firms and multinational corporations.

The EuroLegalNet lawyers are particularly knowledgeable in assisting Italian companies with international expansion and in working with foreign individuals and companies intending to set up business in Italy or having a conflict with Italian counterparties or the need to maintain working relationships with them. In addition, the EuroLegalNet lawyers are capable of tackling and solving legal issues, from both a technical and an operational standpoint, resorting where necessary to the support offered by a network of lawyers, professionals, and qualified academics in a range of different sectors and countries.

Francesco Ferrini

He graduated in law from the University of Ferrara in 1993. During the 1991-1992 academic year, he was an Erasmus student at the University of Leeds, United Kingdom. In 1998, he completed a master’s degree in law (LL.M.) at the Wake Forest University School of Law in the United States of America. He is a member of the European Corporate Governance Institute. He has worked in Rome and Milan for national and international law firms, and in Washington, DC, USA, for Arnold & Porter as visiting foreign lawyer. Between 2005 and 2008, he was ABN AMRO Bank N.V.’s legal director for Italy. He has been a member of the Italian Bar Association since 1996 and he started his own practice in 2009.

A specialist in banking law, capital markets law, and international financial operations, his current practice is focused on providing counsel in court and out of court regarding:

• corporate and commercial law, including: (i) commercial contracts; (ii) corporate restructuring and insolvency; (iii) the Italian law 231/2001 and organizational model of companies in Italy; (iv) private placements, initial public offerings, corporate reorganizations and recapitalization; (v) governance of public companies and closely held corporations;
• financial transactions, including financing coordinated by banks and financing for acquisitions (both national and international);
He is fluent in English, Spanish and Chinese through a dedicated China practice team.