
Expertise
- Corporate law, with particular focus on:
- restructuring/bankruptcy
- extraordinary finance operations
- capital markets
- Litigation
- Bankruptcy proceedings
Foreign languages: English
Background
- Member of the Corporate Governance Focus Team
- Made Of counsel in 2014
- Joined in 1999
- Managing partner of the firm (1999-2001)
Ranking and Awards
The Chambers & Partners and The Legal 500 EMEA international legal directories list Giovanni as a professional with consolidated experience in the area of company law and corporate restructuring in Italy
Testimonials
Market sources highlight his “great standing” in the Italian restructuring market, with one highly impressed client describing him as “the best of all.”
(Chambers & Partners)
Qualifications
- Professor of commercial law at the department of Economics of the University of Genoa (since 1995)
- Member of the Italian Bar
- Specialisation from the legal department of the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna of Pisa
- Law degree from the University of Pisa

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