Marco Penna

Practice Areas

Marco Penna coordinates the Financial Intermediaries Regulations Department and has extensive experience regarding banking regulation, with particular focus on banking & finance law. He regularly assists clients on the regulatory capital of banks and financial intermediaries incorporated under Article 106 of the Italian Banking Act, as well as on banking governance and transparency also in the payment services sector. He also provides assistance in the field of investment services, rules of conduct and off-premises offerings. He regularly deals with regulatory aspect related to M&A transactions in the banking, payments and asset management sectors, as well as in relation to the establishment of regulated entities.

Career

Marco Penna is Partner in Legance since 2018.

Previously he was Senior Counsel from 2016 to 2018 and Counsel from 2011 to 2015 in Legance. Before he was Associate in Legance from 2002 to 2010. From 2001 to 2002 he was Assistant Professor in Italian Civil Procedure, at Università degli Studi di Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy.

Professional Memberships

In 2005 he was admitted to the Milan Bar, Italy.

Publications

He is the author of articles published in Italian legal reviews and has been speaker in different occasion at conferences and seminars. Among others:

- Chapter “Italy” in “Capital Markets: Derivatives”, Chambers and Partners, September 2024;

- Chapter “Italy” in “Fintech”, Panoramic - Lexology, August 2024;

- Chapter “Italy” in “Financial Services Compliance”, Lexology - Getting The Deal Through, April 2022;

- Chapter “Italy” in “Fintech Country Comparative Guide”, The Legal 500, November 2021;

- Chapter “Italy” in “Blockchain 2021”, Global Practice Guides, Chambers and Partners, June 2021;

- Chapter “Italy” in “Financial Services Compliance”, Lexology - Getting The Deal Through, March 2021;

- Chapter “Italy” in “Fintech Country Comparative Guide”, The Legal 500, November 2020;

- Chapter “Italy” in “Financial Services Compliance”, Lexology - Getting The Deal Through, April 2020;

- Chapter “Italy” in “Fintech”, Global Legal Insights, August 2019;

- Chapter “Italy” in “Risk and Compliance”, Getting The Deal Through, April 2019;

- Chapter “Italy” in “Banking Regulation”, Global Legal Insights, March 2019;

- Chapter “Italy” in “Financial Services Compliance”, Getting The Deal Through, March 2019;

- “Diritto degli intermediari e dei mercati finanziari”, Sfameni – Giannelli, Egea, Milan, 2018;

- Chapter “Italy” in “Risk and Compliance”, Getting The Deal Through, 2017;

- “Alcune tipologie particolari di contratti di outsourcing”, (edited by) Paolo Pototschnig, Gabriele Capecchi, Appalti privati e Outsourcing, Wolters Kluwer, Milanofiori Assago (MI), 2016;

- “Diritto degli intermediari e dei mercati finanziari”, Sfameni – Giannelli, Egea, Milan, 2015;

- “Diritto degli intermediari e dei mercati finanziari”, Sfameni – Giannelli, Egea, Milan, 2013;

- “MiFID II e regolamentazione dei mercati: continuità e innovazione”, Diritto 24, 29 March 2012.