Member Profile

The main areas of specialization of Filippo Annunziata include commercial, corporate, banking, financial and insurance law, with specific focus on profiles of comparison of legal systems, application of international models and structures, and cross-border activity provided in Italy by foreign operators.

Over the years, Filippo Annunziata has acquired specific expertise in collective asset management, financial and banking services. Filippo Annunziata also provides assistance to listed issuers, with reference to themes connected to corporate regulation and issuing and listing proceedings. His practice also includes insolvency proceedings and crisis-management procedures for financial and non-financial entities.

He is associated professor of Financial Institutions and Markets Law, as well as member of the managing committee of Centro Paolo Baffi, at Bocconi University (Milan). From September 22nd, 2016 he is Fellow Academic Member of the European Banking Institute, the academic joint venture for research on banking regulation.

He is business accountant, enrolled in the Italian auditors register.

He holds offices in companies of the financial sector, and is frequently a speaker at domestic and international conferences on financial market matters.

Filippo is partner and founder of AC Group.

Annunziata & Conso or AC Group is a network of professionals willing to gain recognition, in Italy and outside Italy, as point of reference for advisory and legal/judicial assistance in the fields of Commercial, Insurance, Banking and Financial Markets Laws.

The Group originates from the consolidated partnership between Prof. Filippo Annunziata and Avv. Andrea Conso and it is strengthened with the recent entry of Dott. Fillippo Berneri. AC Group is enriched, moreover, of the partnership of Dott. Donato Varani, in charge of compliance and internal audit services specializations.

AC Group’s specializations historically focus on Financial Markets Law and Regulation. In their over 20 years of professional activity, the Partners of AC Firm (i.e. the legal firm of the Group) have assisted, judicially and extra-judicially, the main (Italian and foreign) financial markets operators, including banks, banking groups and banking foundations, individual and collective asset managers, investment firms, financial intermediaries, insurance companies, pension funds and trusts.

Inside AC Group, AC Firm is the legal firm specialized in the provision of legal advisory regarding corporate law and regulation of financial markets.

AC Firm assists its clients in capital markets operations, M&A/joint venture transactions, constitution of start-up companies and group/corporate restructuring.

Over the years, the professionals belonging to the firm have acquired specific expertise in collective asset management – with particular regard to alternative investments, private equity and real estate –, banking and investment services.

The firm provides assistance in disciplinary and penalty proceedings before the Supervisory Authorities, related to the provision of investment, banking and insurance services.

With reference to its fields of specialization, the firm assists financial market operators in insolvency proceedings, crisis-management procedures and civil, commercial and administrative litigation.

The Professionals of AC Firm are also specialised in assisting both UE and extra UE banks, investment firms, asset managers and other financial operators in cross-border matters related to the provision of their services and activities (including authorization procedures and penalty proceedings before the Supervisory Authorities).

The Professionals of AC Group have a long-time experience in their areas of specialisation, dating back to the 1980s and increasing year after year, and are recognised as point of reference in the field of banking, financial and securities markets law.

The Professionals operating in AC Firm include business accountants, enrolled in the Italian auditors register, and lawyers registered with the Bar.

The Group’s company AC Services, specialized in the provision of assistance and organizational advisory related to corporate governance and internal control systems of financial operators, is as well enrolled in the Italian auditors register.

Filippo Annunziata is author of a wide list of publications, that includes monographs regarding stock markets, collective asset management and financial markets in general.