LEXIA

LEXIA (www.lexia.it) is an Italian, independent legal and tax firm founded in 2016, with over 100 experienced professionals located in Milan, Rome and Palermo. Led by managing partners Francesco Dagnino, Vincenzo Sanasi d’Arpe and Alessandro Dagnino, the firm is committed to providing clients with advice and expertise at the highest level in a range of practice areas, including Corporate, Capital Markets, Finance, Tax, Public Law, Labor and Global Mobility & Corporate Immigration.

With an extensive experience in the financial sector, including venture and debt capital markets, banking and financial credit, financial services, financial technology, and blockchain, LEXIA is reputed for its track-record of innovative and creative solutions that have had ground-breaking impact on business and law.

LEXIA Professionals provide advice to both listed and unlisted companies, financial institutions, and asset managers on a wide range of transactions, including capital market operations (IPOs, ICOs, share buybacks, and public tender offers), corporate finance, acquisition finance, and project finance.

They also assist financial institutions and other financial intermediaries in all regulatory matters related to their activities. Additionally, they provide advice to banks and companies on project finance (infrastructure and energy), acquisition finance, corporate finance, and real estate finance transactions.

FinTech, Crypto-Assets & Blockchain

LEXIA provides comprehensive consulting services to a wide range of clients in the blockchain industry, including exchange platforms, digital wallet providers, digital asset issuers, and various service providers.

The firm offers strategic guidance and support to address the complexities of this rapidly evolving sector, from ensuring regulatory compliance to leveraging market opportunities.

The teamwork brings together expert groups in tax law, corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, privacy, intellectual property, and administrative law. This enables LEXIA to provide personalized assistance tailored to the unique needs of each sector.

The firm approach involves leveraging the expertise of its highly qualified LEXIA lawyers, ensuring that financial services not only achieve effective visibility but also comply with legal and ethical standards.

The lawyers at LEXIA possess exceptional professional and academic credentials, and many of them are members of the most prominent industry association and are frequently invited to contribute for the drafting of new regulations and to speak at conferences and webinars, further demonstrating their expertise and thought leadership in the legal field.

Areas of Practice 

• Fintech
• Alternative Investments
• Open Banking
• DeFi
• Blockchain
• Crypto-Assets.

With its track-record of innovative and creative solutions that have had ground-breaking impact on the industry, the firm has assisted some of the largest Fintech operators in the setting-up of innovative platforms and products offered on the Italian market.

The strength of Lexia’s financial services team is based on the experience gained by its professionals in advising traditional financial institutions combined with a deep knowledge of the Fintech and Blockchain ecosystem. Lexia’s professionals have an in-depth knowledge of the “tech” aspects of Fintech. Some of them have experience in the IT field, having for example contributed to the programming of smart contracts for blockchain platforms.

Lexia is a founding member and exclusive partner for Italy of Fintech Legal Network, the first European network of independent law firms specialized in Fintech regulation, assisting some of the largest Fintech operators in Europe. The firm is also a professional partner of the Milan Fintech District (one of the leading Italian Fintech ecosystems).

The team regularly publishes articles and contributions on financial services regulatory and Fintech matters in leading publications such as the Huffington Post, Cryptonomist, Il Sole 24 Ore, Milano Finanza and Italia Oggi.

In April 2021, the Firm hired Angelo Messore who is the Head of the Financial Services Practice and the Co-Head of the Fintech and Blockchain Practice together with Francesco Dagnino, Managing Partner of Lexia.

Angelo Messore has gained significant experience in financial services regulatory matters, having practiced in this field for major Italian and international law firms. 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.

Francesco Dagnino is unanimously recognized as one of the leading lawyers in Italy in the areas of Fintech, Crypto-Assets and Blockchain, and has been awarded the prize for the best lawyer in Italy for the category Fintech at the Italian Top Legal Industry Awards 2023.

Main Areas of Practice:

• M&A, Private Equity & Venture Capital
• Capital Markets
• Financial Services Regulatory & Fintech
• Banking & Finance
• Data & Technology Innovation
• Foreign Direct Investments & Corporate Services
• Global Mobility & Immigration
• Labor
• Energy
• Public law
• Real Estate
• Tax

International Work:

Our firm has a robust international focus and a well-established network of top-tier independent foreign law firms and exceptional foreign professionals. This network enables us to provide comprehensive legal assistance to clients involved in complex multi-jurisdictional transactions while upholding the quality and flexibility that defines our independent law firm.

Offices:

Milan 

Via del Lauro, 9

20121 - Milan (Italy)

Phone: 0039 02 3663 8610

Email: [email protected]

Rome 

Piazza del Popolo, 3

00187 - Rome (Italy)

Phone: 0039 06 3265 0892

Email: [email protected]

Palermo 

Via Quintino Sella, 77

90139 - Palermo (Italy)

Phone: 0039 091 3090 62

Email: [email protected]