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AREAS

Banking and Financial Law
Real Estate
Litigation and Arbitration
Commercial Law
Corporate Law and Extraordinary Transactions

Giuseppe Schiavello

Founder | Schiavello & Co

Lawyer for passion.

Graduated in law with honours at the Luiss Guido Carli University of Rome,
he started his training and professional career, after a period of postgraduate studies in civil law, at the major international law firms.

In 2015, he founded the legal atelier Schiavello & Co, an ambitious independent project that strengthened an already renowned reputation in banking, structured finance and securitisation.

Giuseppe assists banks, financial intermediaries, investment firms and industrial and commercial companies in all financing transactions (acquisition finance, real estate finance, project finance, asset finance, supply chain finance).

He assists the arranger, originator, servicer or rating agencies in numerous CMBS (true sale and synthetic), trade receivables securitisation and WBS transactions. He assists investors in structuring and finalising purchase and securitisation transactions of performing loans (trade receivables), often purchased with the involvement of fintech platforms, and non-performing loans.

He is involved in corporate or debt restructuring transactions, mainly as counsel to the lending bank, also advising on bankruptcy law aspects. He also advises on the regulation of banking and investment services (acquisitions of banks and investment firms, authorisation of banking and financial activities and provision of investment services; establishment and authorisation of mutual funds and other UCIs).

Giuseppe also acts as counsel in domestic and international arbitrations – ad hoc and administered – relating to matters in which he advises on substantive law.

Giuseppe has been a member of the Rome Bar since 1993 and was Co-Chair of the Banking Law Committee of the International Bar Association until 2019. He is currently a member of the Senior Advisory Board of the Banking and Financial Law Committee, International Bar Association.

Languages: English and basic knowledge of French

Recognitions

Recommended Lawyer – Legal 500, area Banking, 2015

Highly Regarded Lawyer IFLR 1000, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024

Chambers Global e Chambers Europe dicono di Giuseppe: “Giuseppe Schiavello has significant expertise in securitisation, including the securitisation of non-performing loans and trade receivables”.

Main publications

Circostanze sopravvenute ed esecuzione del mandato, Mondo Bancario, 1996.
Trasferimento e pegno di titoli di Stato in gestione centralizzata presso la Banca d’Italia, Mondo Bancario, 1997.
A practical approach to arbitrato irrituale under Italian Law and its treatment abroad (Co-author: P.M. Patocchi), in The Arbitration and Dispute Resolution Law Journal, 1998.
Commento agli artt. 85, 86 e 204 del D.lgs. No. 58 del 24 febbraio 1998, in Alpa and Capriglione, Commentario al Testo Unico delle disposizioni in materia di intermediazione finanziaria, 1998.
Commento agli artt. 39, 40, 41, 42, 203 e 204 del D.lgs. No. 58 del 24 febbraio 1998, Alpa and Zatti, Commentario alle leggi complementari al codice civile, 2000.
CMBS in Italy: the current issues and the synthetic route, Securitization of derivatives and alternative asset classes, Kluwer, 2005.
Commento all’art. 18 del nuovo regolamento di arbitrato CCI (co-author Rosaria Arancio) Briguglio, Salvaneschi, Regolamento di arbitrato della camera di commercio internazionale, Milano, 2005.
A/B Structures in CMBS Transactions: an overview from an Italian perspective, Innovations in Securitization Yearbook 2006, Kluwer, 2006.
Servicing Italian CMBS Transactions, Expansion and Diversification in Securitization Yearbook 2007, Kluwer, 2007.
Project Financing ed energie rinnovabili: overview della documentazione legale da predisporre, Il sole a trecentosessanta gradi, ISES.
Clawback of security in insolvency, IBA Banking Law Committee Project, 2012.
Chapter XII, The lending and secured finance review, V Ed. The Law Review, 2019