Marzio Ciani

Practice Areas

Marzio Ciani is a Capital Markets expert who worked for several years with a leading US law firm in Rome, Milan and New York assisting underwriters and issuers in some of the most significant equity capital markets transactions of the recent past, including public offers and listings on Borsa Italiana and the New York Stock Exchange, tender offers and exchange offers, rights offerings, private placements to institutional investors and employee offers. Marzio Ciani has considerable experience also in debt capital markets transactions including high yield offers, convertible and exchangeable bonds, European Medium Term Notes programs, US shelf take-downs and issuances of asset-backed securities and collateralized debt obligations. Marzio Ciani regularly assists Italian and foreign clients in connection with public offer rules and available exemptions under Italian and US securities law and foreign banks in establishing branches or secondary offices in Italy.

Career

Senior Counsel in Legance since 2012. Previously Senior Associate, Shearman & Sterling LLP, Rome and Milan, Italy (2008 – 2012). US Associate, Shearman & Sterling LLP, New York, U.S.A. (2006 – 2007). Associate, Shearman & Sterling LLP, Rome, Italy

(2005 – 2006). Associate, Bonelli Erede Pappalardo, Milan, Italy (2001 – 2004).

Professional Memberships

Member of the Supreme Court of the United States since 2012. Member of the New York Bar since 2007. Member of the Rome Bar since 2004.

Publications

He is the author and co-author of numerous articles and commentaries published in important reviews and books on capital markets, including:

• “Global Clampdown on Short Selling: an Overview”, Shearman & Sterling Economic Stabilization Advisory Group, February 2010;

• “Italian Ministry of Economy Obtains Power to Recapitalize Banks”, Shearman & Sterling Client Publication, February 2009;

• “Quattro anni di monitoraggio della giurisprudenza della Corte dei Conti in materia di controllo sulla gestione amministrativa dello stato”, in the volume entitled “Aspetti Istituzionali e Metodologici del Controllo di Gestione”, Corte dei Conti, Seminar on Monitoring and Controls, October 2001;

• “A European Perspective on the Taxation of Company Directors”, contribution to the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation Eucotax-Wintercourse, April 1998.