Marco Zechini

Marco Zechini is equity partner of Alma and Head of the Banking and Financial Regulation team. Marco is specialized in regulation of financial intermediaries and technology law, with twenty years of experience in all regulatory and organizational aspects related to banking and financial services. He is also a recognized expert in the Fintech sector. With a solid corporate background, Marco handles sophisticated corporate transactions providing assistance in all legal, regulatory and organizational aspects related to payment and investment services, with particular focus on the Consolidated Law on Finance and in the field of investment and structuring of public offers for sale and subscription. Marco regularly assists, inter alia, banks, financial companies, payment institutions, e-money institution, investment and asset management companies, etc in the authorization procedures (before Bank of Italy and Consob) and in the management of relations with the supervisory authorities. He advises on the structuring, realization and negotiation of insure-tech projects, outsourcing agreements in compliance with EBA regulation, joint-venture and partnership agreements between financial intermediaries, and with fintech companies; in the sale and purchase of portfolios and complex transactions pertaining to banking and financial entities; in drafting and negotiation of SPA agreements for the acquisition of qualified and not-qualified stake in fintech companies. He also advises on the structuring of new services and products and provides legal and regulatory assistance, both on the arranger and originator side, as part of securitization transactions, providing support on administrative sanctions proceedings, ad interim measures and sanctions related to the provisions of banking, financial, investment and insurance services. He also has extensive experience in the context of outsourcing contracts of operational functions such as the outsourcing of IT processes. · ALMA SOCIETA' TRA AVVOCATI S.R.L.