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What the Team is Known For

Chiomenti's financial regulation practice advises significant domestic and international banks, payment institutions, tech companies and cryptocurrency exchange platforms. The firm's work includes assisting with data protection and cybersecurity, as well as e-money authorisation and payments matters.

Work Highlights

  • Chiomenti assisted OKCoin with exercising its passporting rights as a registered Crypto-Assets Service Provider in Malta in order to enter into the Italian market. This involved ensuring OKCoin's crypto-asset services were fully MiCA compliant as well as compatible with Italy's own specific regulatory requirements.

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Notable Practitioners

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Alessandro Portolano
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Alessandro Portolano
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Alessandro Portolano is well known for his financial regulatory expertise. He regularly advises notable clients on European and Italian banking and finance as well as payments and crowdfunding matters.

Portolano is always interested and curious about new things and new projects. He's also an excellent lawyer.

Alessandro is a guru and a very well-known and reputable lawyer.

Alessandro comes from Bank of Italy and has a deep understanding of how it works, he's also dynamic and fast and speaks the business language as well as the language of regulators.

What sets Alessandro Portolano apart from other lawyers is his deep technical expertise combined with strategic, business-oriented vision - particularly rare in the regulatory and financial sector.

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Alessandro Portolano
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