Sofia Caruso

Sofia
Caruso

Managing Associate

Life is an invitation to close your eyes and see the horizon

Sofia provides assistance and legal advice on corporate law, regulatory and financial markets law in day by day operations and extraordinary and transnational transactions to credit institutions, financial intermediaries and companies, including listed ones.
Sofia also assists and advises crowdfunding platforms, payment and e-money institutions and other financial intermediaries, both Italian and foreign, also supporting them in authorisation procedures and structuring of investment vehicles.

Sofia joined LCA in 2022.
Previously, she worked with leading Italian and international law firms.

Key Lawyer for Banking & Finance: Bank Regulatory

She's not just technically strong: she's practical, responsive, and genuinely collaborative. The Legal 500 EMEA 2026

"Deep understanding of the local regulatory landscape. Ability to deliver compliant but out-of-the-box proposals in a timely manner." The Legal 500 EMEA 2024

"Very creative approach that yields results within the legal framework without requiring constant guidance and feedback from clients." The Legal 500 EMEA 2024

EDUCATION

Master in Industrial Property Law at Just Legal Services, Milan (2014)

Double degree in Italian and French Law, University of Florence and Université Paris 1 – Pantheon, Sorbonne (2013)

PROFESSIONAL ORDER

Italy (Milan Bar)

LANGUAGES

Italian, English, French

Sofia, together with Umberto Piattelli, contributed to the preparation of chapters 39 “Invoice trading and regulation: the case of Italy” and 44 “The impact of the ECSPR on the crowdfunding legal framework in Italy” of the commentary on the Regulation on European Crowdfunding Service Providers for Business of the Elgar Commentaries in Financial Law series, edited by Eugenia Macchiavello, published in 2022.