GC Influencers
Most Influential GCs - Italy
Nicola Verdicchio of Pirelli
Renowned Nicola Verdicchio acts as Chief Legal Officer at Pirelli since 2014 and in 2017 he was additionally named Senior Vice President.
He started his career in Danone, followed by the position of General Counsel at Stet International, before taking up the role of head of legal department at Telecom Italia, where he worked for a decade, developing his experience in the management of complex corporate and regulatory affairs.
Verdicchio has played a key role in several high-profile transactions in past years, including its complex corporate restructuring. The work involved the merger with ChemChina in 2015, followed by the spin-off in two separate companies for consumer and industrial products respectively and its delisting from the stock market. Pirelli was subsequently re-listed in the stock exchange in 2017.