Overview

Ettore Maria Lombardi is a counsel at the firm and a qualified attorney at law registered with the Italian Bar Association.

 

He is the Professor of Private Law and International Business Law at the University of Florence School of Law and a visiting Professor at some of the most prestigious American, British and German universities.

 

As a member of the Arbitro Bancario Finanziario and the President of the supervisory board at Nuovo Pignone Holding S.P.A., he has extensive experience in corporate capital structures, banking and finance. He routinely helps clients with financial leverage, bond issuance, corporate governance and complex mergers and acquisitions.

 

Prior to joining the firm, he was a counsel at DLA Piper (Rome & Milan) where he worked on corporate matters and international arbitration.

 

Ettore Maria Lombardi holds a PHD in Private Law from the University of Florence School of Law, a LL.M. from Harvard Law School, a J.C.L. from the Pontifical University of Lateran and a LLB from the University of Florence School of Law. He also holds an advanced certificate in Artificial Intelligence from the Oxford Saïd Business School and an advanced certificate in Business Sustainability Management from the University of Cambridge.

 

He is a member of several prominent international legal associations and the Event Officer of the Harvard Law School Association of Europe. He is the Director of the Executive Course on Alternative Investment, which is co-organized by the University of Florence School of Law and Queen Mary University of London and the Executive Course on Art & Law, which is co-organized by the University of Florence School of Law, the Université de Genève and the Gallerie degli Uffizi.

 

He has over fifty publications in the fields of Civil Law, Contract law, Commercial Law, Banking, Finance, Digital Law and has authored award-winning treatises on Private Law.

 

He is fluent in English, French and Italian.

Education
  • PHD in Private Law, University of Florence School of Law
  •  LL.M., Harvard Law School
  • J.C.L., Pontifical University of Lateran
  • LLB, University of Florence School of Law
Academic Appointments
  • Professor of Private Law and International Business Law at the University of Florence School of Law
  •  Director of the Executive Course on Alternative Investment, co-organized by the University of Florence School of Law and Queen Mary University of London (Centre for Commercial Law Studies - CCLS)
  • Director of the Executive Course on Art & Law, co-organized by the University of Florence School of Law, the Université de Genève and the Gallerie degli Uffizi
  •  Visiting Professor at Birkbeck College - University of London (London, UK)
  • Visiting Scholar in Dispute Resolution at the Carey Center for Dispute Resolution, St. John’s Law School (New York, USA)
  • Research Fellow at BRICS Competition Law and Policy Center of the National Research Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia)
  • Visiting Fellow of the Institute for Global Law, Economics and Finance (IGLEF) at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London (London, U.K.)
Certificates
  • Advanced Certificate in Artificial Intelligence, Oxford Saïd Business School (UK)
  •  Advanced Certificate in Business Sustainability Management, University of Cambridge (UK)
Memberships
  • Member of the Arbitro Bancario Finanziario by appointment of the Bank of Italy (Bologna, Italy)
  •  President of the Supervisory Board on “231 Model” at Nuovo Pignone Holding S.p.A. (Global Holding of the Baker Hughes Company - Florence, Italy)
  •  Event Officer of the Harvard Law School Association of Europe
  • Member of the Association Henri Capitant des Amis de la Culture Juridique Française
  • Member of The London Centre for Commercial and Financial Law 
Publications
  • Warranty and Liability in the Sale of Consumer Goods, Giuffré, Milano, 2010
  •  The Financial Authorities’ “Responsibilization”: Models and Functions, ESI, Napoli, 2016
  • The Impact of Digitalization on the Property: the Copyleft ESI, Napoli, 2020

Bar Admissions

  • Italian Bar Association

Languages

  • English (Fluent)
  • French (Fluent)
  • Italian (Fluent)