Niccolò Abriani

Niccolò is one of Italy’s leading experts in corporate law, corporate governance and bankruptcy law. Among his many activities, he advises clients (i.e., independent directors and boards of statutory auditors) on related-party transactions, takeover bids, amendments to articles of association and the review and application of corporate governance rules. He also assists companies, bankruptcy proceedings, directors and auditors in liability actions and allegations of serious irregularities. He acts as advisor, board member, liquidator and legal commissioner for major restructuring and turnaround operations in the context of composition agreements, debt restructuring agreements and certified recovery plans.

Niccolò joined LCA in 2022.
He is full Professor of Commercial Law at the University of Florence (since 2005), Professor of Corporate Law at the Ph.D. and Master’s Degree of LUISS University in Rome (since 2012) and member of the Committee for Appointments and Promotions of Bocconi University in Milan (since 2016).
He holds a Ph.D. in Commercial Law from Bocconi University in Milan, where he taught Commercial Law and Corporate Governance, and was Dean of the Faculty of Economics at the University of Foggia (2003-2005).
He was also Coordinator of the Italian-Spanish research project on the legal forms of SMEs, University of Florence – Universidad de Valencia from 2005 to 2007.
Niccolò also works as an extraordinary commissioner, bankruptcy liquidator and legal commissioner of judicial settlements with business continuity.

Key Lawyer for Dispute Resolution
Highly recommended for Restructuring & Insolvency

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Commercial Law, Bocconi University of Milan (1995)
Law degree, University of Turin (1990)

PROFESSIONAL ORDER

Italy (Rome Bar)

LANGUAGES

Italian, English, French, Spanish

Niccolò is a member of national and international arbitration panels, as well as an independent member of administration and control bodies. He has been an independent director and statutory auditor of banking and financial companies, and of listed industrial companies (e.g., member of the Board of Statutory Auditors of Leonardo, formerly Finmeccanica, S.p.A., independent director, appointed by Fondo Atlante, of Banca Popolare di Vicenza S.p.A.). He is a member of the supervisory bodies of companies (i.e., Chairman of the Board of Statutory Auditors of Telespazio, a company owned by the Leonardo Group and the Thales Group, of SEIF, a company listed in Milan and Paris, and of Iren Toscana Ambiente) and non-profit organizations (e.g., Chairman of the Board of Statutory Auditors of the Mandela Forum Association in Florence and member of the Supervisory Board of the Casa della Carità Angelo Abriani in Milan). Author of numerous studies and publications, the most recent of which are dedicated to the impact of artificial intelligence on corporate governance, corporate crises, financial structure and the control system of listed companies.

Founder and co-editor of Rivista del Diritto Societario; co-editor of Rivista di Diritto dell’Impresa; member of the referee committee (i.e., evaluation committee) of Rivista delle Società, Rivista del notariato, Giurisprudenza Italiana, Il Fallimento e degli Annali Italiani del Diritto d’Autore – AIDA. Coordinator for the Commercial Law sector of the Dizionari di diritto privato edited by Natalino Irti; coordinator for the Corporate Law sector of Il diritto, Enciclopedia giuridica de Il Sole-24 Ore.

Director of the School of Legal Professions at the University of Florence.
Member of the Commission for Business Studies of the National Council of Notaries.
Member of the Commission for the elaboration of rules of conduct for the Board of Auditors of the National Council of Chartered Accountants and Accounting Experts
Member of the Scientific Committee of the Institute for Corporate Governance.
Member of the Company Law Observatory of the College of Notaries of Florence.

Since 12 March 2024, he has been appointed by the MEF to participate in the “Comitato di coordinamento per l’analisi e l’approfondimento delle tematiche inerenti alla riforma organica delle disposizioni in materia di mercati di capitali” nel “Gruppo di lavoro Emittenti”.

His most recent publications include:
– Diritto delle Imprese e Intelligenza Artificiale. Dalla Fintech alla Corptech (con G. Schneider), Il Mulino, 2021.
– Il Diritto delle Imprese tra Emergenza e Rilancio nella Sostenibilità, in N. Abriani, G.C. Caselli, A. Celotto, F. Di Marzio, S. Masini, G. Tremonti, Il diritto e l’eccezione, Donzelli, 2020, pp. 87-134;
– Il Nuovo Codice di Corporate Governance, in RDS, 2022, pp. 253-290.
– La Disciplina dei Gruppi di Imprese nel Codice della Crisi e dell’Insolvenza, in L. De Simone, M. Fabiani e S. Leuzzi (a cura di), Studi sull’avvio del Codice della crisi, Special issue of Dirittodellacrisi.it, 2022, pp. 178-196.