Europe
Practice Areas
Restructuring & Bankruptcy
Mergers & Acquisitions
White Collar Defense & Investigations
Career
Bruno Cova, European Co-Chair of Restructuring & Insolvency and Compliance Groups, focuses his practice on complex transactions such as cross-border acquisitions and restructuring of distressed companies. He also regularly advises international corporations and financial institutions in dealing with corporate governance and legal risks issues, devising internal controls or contractual mechanisms to minimize those risks, investigating legal and compliance problems, and defending clients before regulatory authorities or in the context of criminal investigations.
Concentrations:
Restructuring and insolvency transaction
Corporate governance
White collar, internal investigations and compliance
Professional Memberships
Member of the troika of experts advising the Corporate Governance Committee of the Italian stock exchange on corporate governance reforms
Member of the High Yield Insolvency Committee within the Association of Financial Markets in Europe
Former member of the European Commission’s Working Group on the reform of community law on cross-border bankruptcy
Past-Chair of the Anti-Corruption Committee and the Corporate Counsel Forum of the International Bar Association
Member of the Advisory Board of the Anti-Corruption Committee of the International Bar Association
Founder and member of the Executive Committee of AISCA, the Italian association of company secretaries
Member of the Executive Committee of Fondazione Giovanni e Irene Cova
Member of the Advisory Board of the Global Counsel Leaders Circle
Member, Milan Bar
Publications
Chambers Global: Leading Individual for Restructuring and Insolvency, Compliance and Corporate/M&A, 2021, 2022
Chambers Europe: Leading Individual for Restructuring and Insolvency, Compliance and Corporate/M&A, 2021, 2022
Personal
Education:
Università degli Studi di Milano
King's College London
