Claudio Visco

Training

Admitted to practice law in 1983. Member of the Rome Bar Association. Admitted to practice before the Court of Cassation since 1997. Auditor since 1997. Foreign Legal Consultant in England and Wales.

Law Degree magna cum laude in 1981 (Rome “La Sapienza”). School of Public Administration in 1981-1982; introductory program in American law in 1982 (Georgetown University Law School, Washington); Master of Laws (LL.M.) in 1983 (University of Michigan).

Professional experience

He is active in the areas of Corporate, Commercial and Administrative Law. He has handled numerous acquisitions and corporate reorganizations, coordinating all related activities including the preparation of data rooms, due diligence reports, contractual agreements, shareholders’ agreements and investment agreements in general. He has organized and coordinated numerous internal audit activities for leading Italian and multinational groups in relation to civil, regulatory and criminal proceedings. He has gained particular experience, among others, in the Pharmaceutical and Healthcare sectors.
In other areas, he has been involved since the 1990s in the liberalization of the Energy Sector in Italy, representing Italian and foreign entities in the development and financing of combined cycle power plants and waste-to-energy plants. Over the last fifteen years he has been involved in renewable energy as a consultant in relation to the development of new wind and photovoltaic initiatives, negotiating IPC and O&M contracts and financing energy projects, in particular as a consultant to the sponsor. His practice areas also include financial matters with a focus on commercial and regulatory litigation, including economic criminal law, regulatory litigation and arbitration.

He has organized numerous seminars and conferences, including the IBA Annual Conference 2018 in Rome with the participation of over 6,000 lawyers from all over the world.

He currently holds the position of Auditor and member of the Supervisory Board in numerous companies belonging to multinational groups: Stryker Italia (Chairman of the Board of Auditors and member of the Supervisory Body), Mundipharma Pharmaceuticals (Sole Auditor), Panta Distribuzione (Chairman of the Board of Auditors), Società Italiana Brevetti (Chairman of the Board of Auditors), Interflora (Chairman of the Board of Auditors), ABG Systems (Effective Auditor).

In the past he has held the position of Auditor or Chairman of the Board of Auditors in numerous other companies, including Aersud Elicotteri, Helicopters Italia, British American Tobacco Italia SpA, British American Tobacco Southern Europe SpA (formerly BIT), Forest – CMI SpA, Forest Oil Mediterranean Srl; Sector Group SpA, Greengas Srl, Best SpA, Rohm and Haas Italia Srl, Montecarlo Yatch SpA, Elektromec SpA, Montenero Srl

He is a managing partner of Emme & PS, an auditing firm registered with the Consob.

Associations

Vice President, together with Jaime Carey, and member of the Management Board and the Diversity Council of the International Bar Association (IBA), where he was previously chairman of the Bar Issue Commission (BIC), the Policy Committee, the Securities Committee and the Capital Market Forum.

Publications

• The “Italian Torpedo” vs. the “Pre-Emptive Strike” Testing Articles 22 and 23 of EU Regulation n. 44/2001, in Global wisdom on business transactions, international law and dispute resolution, CHBeck, 2015
• Co-author of chapter 9 Interdictory sanctions and confiscation (also in precautionary proceedings) in the system of Legislative Decree 231/2001, in Administrative liability of entities pursuant to Legislative Decree 231/2001, Ed. Le Fonti, 2015
• Co-author of The applicability of Legislative Decree No. 231/2001 to foreign entities: equivalent models and free-form models, in Criminal Law of the Economy, of the European Union and Transnational, ASLA (Associazione Studi Legali Associati) Ed. La Tribuna, 2015
• Co-author of the chapter on Italy in Corporate Governance, International Reference series, Thomson Reuters, 2015
• Co-author of the chapter on Italy in Corporate Governance, The European Lawyer Reference series, Thomson Reuters, 2013
• Co-author of the volume L’EURO Legal and economic aspects edited by Franco Riolo, Milan, EDIBANK, 1997 and, with Luca Simonetti, of the article L’Euro ed il problema della continuità dei contratti, in Diritto del commerciale internazionale, 1998
• The Historical-Institutional Approach to Credit and Financial Intermediation and Financial Regulation in Italy with Gerardo Coppola and Daniele Corsini in Theory of Credit Intermediation, Banca Toscana, Studies and Information, Quaderno 41 and subsequently, in an updated and revised version in Banks, Information and Economic Development, G. Giappichelli Editore, Turin 1997
• Foreign Funds Operating in Italy, Fund Industry, Regulation 95, Part 2, 1995. Project Finance and Arbitration Conventions in International Trade Law, 1994
• International Survey of Investment Adviser Regulation Italy, Graham & Trotman / Martinus Nijhoff, 1994
• Les Fonds de Plaçement en Provenance des Etats Unis, du Canada et d’Autres Pays Accèdant aux Marchés Européens, in Gestion Collective, number 1, 1993
• Remarks on the Venture Capital Contract Model, in I Contratti, number 1, 1993
• Public Offerings of Securities and Takeover Bids: The New Italian Code, in International Business Lawyer, 1992
• Employee Share Participation in the European Community (Clifford Chance) 1990
• Italian Ambiguity Keeps the EEIGs Waiting in International Tax Review, 1990
• Takeovers and Mergers in Europe (Clifford Chance, 1988)