Giovanni Sabatini joins GA as senior advisor, where he will coordinate the entire area of expertise in Banking, Regulatory, and Financial Services. In particular, he will be in charge of strategic consultancy in relations with Italian (Bank of Italy, Consob, Ivass, Agcm, Covip) and European (European Commission, European Central Bank, ESMA, EBA, SRB) institutions in the banking, financial and insurance fields.

Graduated in Economics and Business at the LUISS University in Rome, he began his professional career in 1984 at Arthur Young & Co. After an experience in Consob, in 2001 he was CEO of Monte Titoli S.p.A. and Chairman of ECSDA.

After joining Consob as Director of the Intermediaries Division, he was Head of the Legal and Banking Affairs Department of the Ministry of Economy and Finance.

In 2008 he returned to Consob as Co-Director, and from 2009 to 2024 he took on the role of Director General of the ABI.

In recent years, he has been for two two-year terms Chairman of the Executive Committee of FBE, Chairman of the Strategic Committee for Sustainable Growth of FBE, member of the EESC; Vice-Chairman of Bancomat, member of the Board of Directors of Fondo Italiano di Investimento, member of the Italian Committee for Corporate Governance, member of the Consultation Committee of Borsa Italiana. He is Vice-President of CBI and independent director of the Deposit Protection Fund.

‘’We are very excited‘’, says Francesco Sciaudone, Global Managing Partner of GA, ‘’that Giovanni will be able to contribute to the development of GA in a strategic sector such as banking, finance and insurance in Italy and Europe, to the benefit of all national and international clients. Giovanni's contribution will be fundamental to finally building a professional service offer (strategic, legal and tax) for the market and economic operators who have always had to deal with an increasingly complex regulatory mosaic and a plurality of stakeholders.‘’

Gianluca Bertolotti is Grimaldi Alliance's new of counsel in corporate governance and corporate crisis. His arrival further strengthens the Rome office and its area of expertise in commercial, corporate and industrial law, advisory and litigation.

Bertolotti is Professor of Commercial Law and Industrial Law at the University of Roma Tre, where he is also Director of the Commercial Law Area of the School of Specialisation for the Legal Professions. He is also a lecturer at the Guardia di Finanza School of Economic and Financial Police and a member of the Scientific Committee of the Ministry of Economy and Finance for the continuous training of Legal Auditors.

Bertolotti is a highly experienced professional with significant expertise in corporate law, financial markets, corporate governance, arbitration, banking law, crisis law and restructuring; in his long career he has held and continues to hold prestigious institutional and academic positions.

Professor Bertolotti has also been Legal Advisor to the Bicameral Commission of Inquiry into the Banking and Financial Markets System, Judicial Advisor to the Rome Court of Appeal and Head of Assonime's Corporate and Financial Markets sector, and is a lawyer admitted to practice before the Superior Jurisdictions.

"We are delighted to welcome Gianluca Bertolotti to Grimaldi Alliance. I am sure that he will bring with him an important professional background deriving from his years of experience in the academic world and in the profession and will be able to further enrich the quality of professional services that we increasingly want to offer in an integrated manner to national and international clients,’ commented Francesco Sciaudone, Global Managing Partner of Grimaldi Alliance.

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