Member Profile

Roberto Ferretti is one of the founding partners of Studio Legale Bonora e Assocati, an independent law firm established in 2000 and belonging to the Italian network LibraJus.

Roberto and his team assist multi-national groups, corporations and financial institutions in the negotiation and arrangement of complex corporate and financial transactions, such as M&As, transfers of businesses, restructuring and winding-up of companies, joint ventures, credit facilities, syndicated loans and pool financing, inter-company loans, subordinated and hybrid loans, cash pooling and debt restructuring.

They also cover all the regulatory aspects relating, among others, to:

- Licensing, conduct of business and winding-up of regulated entities, such as banks, insurance companies, financial and payment institutions, investment firms and asset management companies;

- Transfer of shareholdings in those institutions;

- Transfer of financial businesses and portfolios;

- Establishment of Italian branches of foreign institutions.

- Banking and Finance

- Corporate

- M&A

- Arbitration

- ADR

- Mediator for the Italian Banking and Financial Mediation Centre (or Organismo di Conciliazione Bancaria), Rome

- Member of the Banking and Financial Ombudsman (or Arbitro Bancario Finanziario, ABF), the alternative dispute resolution system promoted and managed by the Bank of Italy

- Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan (J.D., 1988)

- University of Heidelberg (Institut für Ausländisches und Internationales Privat- und Wirtschaftsrecht, various periods of study from 1989 to 1993)

- Advanced Training Course in Banking and Financial Law of European Union, Brussels, 1996

- Un altro passo verso la trasparenza degli assetti proprietari: prime note di commento ai profili societari della l. 12 agosto 1993, n. 310, Banca, borsa, 1994, I, 227

- Commento agli articoli 20, 23 e 24, Le nuove modifiche al testo unico bancario. Commentario al d.lgs. 4 agosto 1999, n, 342, edited by A.A. Dolmetta, Giuffrè, Milan, 2000

- Codice della banca, Zanichelli, Bologna, 2° ed., 2000 (edited together with Professor P. Abbadessa)

- L’ADR dans le secteur bancaire, Euredia – Revue Européenne de Droit Bancaire et Financier, Brussels, issue 1/2010

- Commento degli art. 126-quater e 126-septies, Testo unico bancario. Commentario, edited by M. Porzio, F. Belli, G. Losappio, M. Rispoli Farina, V. Santoro, Giuffrè, Milan, 2010

- L’arbitrato e i sistemi alternativi di risoluzione delle controversie nel settore bancario, M. Rubino Sammartano (edited by), L’arbitrato – Disciplina comune e regimi speciali, Cedam, Padua, 2010

- The Legal Measures taken in Italy in Reply to the Crisis: Inventory, Presentation and Comments, Euredia – Revue Européenne de Droit Bancaire et Financier, Brussels, issue 1/2011

- Assistant Professor of Banking Law, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan, from 1989 till 2004

- Permanent collaboration with CeTIF, Research Centre for Technology, Innovation and Financial Services, and CEFIRS, Centre for European Financial Regulation Studies, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan

- Member of teaching staff of various Master's and advanced training courses in Banking and Financial Markets Law

Member of the Research Group:

- Research Project of Relevant National Interest promoted by the Italian Ministry for University and Research (PRIN 2013) on Market Governance in the EU

- Research Project of Relevant National Interest (PRIN 2006) on Consumer Protection and Payment Services in the New EU Legislative Framework

- Research Project promoted by the European Commission in 2008 on the Reform of the Directive 2001/24/EC on the Reorganisation and Winding up of Credit Institutions

- Member of the Board of Directors of the Italian Committee, of the European Scientific Committee and of the Presidency Bureau of the European Society for Banking and Financial Law, Paris

- Member of the "Gian Franco Campobasso" Society for Commercial Law, Naples

- Member of the "Giorgio Ambrosoli" Centre for Legal Studies, Milan

- 2013 and 2015 Financial Transactions Law Firm of the Year in Italy, Global Law Experts Awards.

- 2014 Financial Transactions Law Firm of the Year in Italy, Corporate Intl Global Award