Angelo Messore

Practice Areas

Angelo became partner at LEXIA Avvocati in 2021. He regularly assists Italian and foreign financial institutions in relation to the regulation of banking, financial, insurance, investment and payment services. He has gained significant experience in the analysis and launch of business projects in the Fintech space, and contributed to the establishment of several innovative Fintech platforms.

Angelo assists clients in the establishment and marketing of alternative investment funds, especially those specialized in private debt, direct lending and non-performing loans. He also worked on several M&A transactions (acquisitions, mergers, corporate reorganizations, transfers of business, transfers of loans or insurance portfolios) and capital market deals, with a particular focus on financial institutions and Fintech companies.

Career

Angelo was admitted to the Bar in Italy in 2012.

He graduated with honors at the Roma Tre University and completed an LL.M. in Finance at the Institute for Law and Finance of the Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main (Germany) in 2015.

Angelo Messore has gained significant experience in financial services regulatory matters, having practiced in this field for major Italian and international law firms (White & Case, Chiomenti and Freshfields). 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. Recently he specialized in Fintech, DeFi and Blockchain projects. He is a member of the technical commission established by the Italian Private Banking Association (AIPB) on the use of innovative technologies (such as blockchain and crypto-assets) for the private banking business, and provides seminars and webinars to Italian private banking institutions on regulatory matters (such as the recent proposal for a Regulation on Financial Data Access).

Industry Sector Expertise

Financial Services

Fintech, Crypto-Assets & Blockchain

Startups & Venture Capital

Investment Funds

Capital Markets

Corporate

Awards