Alessandro Portolano

Alessandro advises Italian and foreign financial institutions in relation to all areas of the banking, financial, insurance, payment services and asset management regulations. He advises banks, asset managers, and other financial institutions on regulatory issues concerning the structuring and execution of extraordinary and complex M&A and financial transactions. His experience includes ex novo charters and assistance in proceedings before Italian and European Regulators, regulatory enforcement matters, structuring of business models, and entry into new markets.

Alessandro Portolano joined Chiomenti in 2003 and become partner in 2008. Since 2024 Head of the "Litigation & Advisory" Department and Co-Head of the "Financial Regulation" Practice Area.

He has previously worked at the Bank of Italy, within the Supervisory Department in Rome.

Member of the Rome Bar (Italy), 1998; Between 2013 and 2015 he has been a member of the Consultative Working Group of the Corporate Finance Standing Committee of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA).