LEXIA

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Firm Overview:

LEXIA (www.lexia.it) is an independent law firm founded in 2016 by Francesco Dagnino and Alessandro Dagnino, with offices in Milan, and Palermo. With a team of over 100 professionals, including lawyers and accountants, LEXIA is recognized in the most prestigious international legal directories.

LEXIA‘s mission is to drive the success and sustainable innovation of its clients by providing top-tier legal services. The firm stands out for its ability to combine expertise, specialization, and innovation, offering high value-added personalized solutions.

LEXIA operates as a multipractice firm across a wide range of sectors, including Corporate/M&A, Capital Markets, Financial Services Regulatory & Fintech, Tax, Energy & Environment, Data & Technology Innovation, Corporate Crisis, Global Mobility, and ESG Advisory. This integrated approach ensures the firm to maintain a high standard of excellence in all services provided.

LEXIA boasts a recognized leadership in assisting businesses operating in sectors characterized by rapid technological innovation and continuous regulatory evolution, including Technology, FinTech, and Renewable Energy. Our adaptability makes us the ideal partner for cutting-edge companies.

Financial Services Regulatory & Fintech

LEXIA provides comprehensive consulting services to a wide range of clients in the blockchain industry, including exchange platforms, digital wallet providers, digital asset issuers, and various service providers.

LEXIA offers strategic guidance and support to address the complexities of this rapidly evolving sector, from ensuring regulatory compliance to leveraging market opportunities.

Our teamwork brings together expert groups in tax law, corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, privacy, intellectual property, and administrative law. This enables us to provide tailored, personalized assistance tailored to the unique needs of each sector.

Our approach involves leveraging the expertise of our highly qualified LEXIA lawyers, ensuring that financial services not only achieve effective visibility but also comply with legal and ethical standards.

Areas of Practice

Fintech
Alternative Investments
Open Banking
DeFi
Blockchain
Crypto-Assets.

With its track-record of innovative and creative solutions that have had ground-breaking impact on the industry, the firm has assisted some of the largest Fintech operators in the setting-up of innovative platforms and products offered on the Italian market.

The strength of Lexia’s financial services team is based on the experience gained by its professionals in advising traditional financial institutions combined with a deep knowledge of the Fintech and Blockchain ecosystem. Lexia’s professionals have an in-depth knowledge of the “tech” aspects of Fintech. Some of them have experience in the IT field, having for example contributed to the programming of smart contracts for blockchain platforms.

Lexia is a founding member and exclusive partner for Italy of Fintech Legal Network, the first European network of independent law firms specialized in Fintech regulation, assisting some of the largest Fintech operators in Europe. The firm is also a professional partner of the Milan Fintech District (one of the leading Italian Fintech ecosystems).

The team regularly publishes articles and contributions on financial services regulatory and Fintech matters in leading publications such as the Huffington Post, Cryptonomist, Il Sole 24 Ore, Milano Finanza and Italia Oggi.

In April 2021, the Firm hired Angelo Messore who is the Head of the Financial Services Practice and the Co-Head of the Fintech and Blockchain Practice together with Francesco Dagnino, Managing Partner of Lexia.

Angelo Messore has gained significant experience in financial services regulatory matters, having practiced in this field for major Italian and international law firms. He has prior working experiences at the Bank of Italy, where he was part of the working group responsible for the implementation of the AIFMD in Italy, and at the Legal Department of the European Central Bank, where he worked on the legal aspects concerning the functioning of the Single Supervisory Mechanism.

Francesco Dagnino is unanimously recognized as one of the leading lawyers in Italy in the areas of Fintech, Crypto-Assets and Blockchain, and has been awarded the prize for the best lawyer in Italy for the category Fintech at the Italian Top Legal Industry Awards 2023.

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