Overview

Orietta Nava is Counsel at LEXIA and primarily focuses on financial markets, with a specific expertise in assisting financial sector operators – including investment firms, asset management companies, banks, financial intermediaries, trust companies, and crowdfunding companies – as well as collective investment schemes.

She provides comprehensive legal assistance in projects concerning the establishment and authorization of financial sector operators and mutual investment funds. Her expertise extends to M&A and corporate transactions involving supervised entities, including the management of operational modifications and corporate reorganizations. Orietta hold the role of secretary for major financial institutions for several years, providing high-level corporate governance support.

Orietta regularly advises supervised entities on regulatory and prudential supervision. Her practice covers a wide range of complex issues, including corporate governance, internal policies and procedures (with a focus on remuneration), and the provision of authorized services and activities and also the structuring and ongoing assistance for collective investment schemes. She also assists governing bodies and committees in ensuring compliance with applicable regulations.

An accomplished author, Orietta has contributed to several specialized publications. She authored the notebook “Le SGR Società di Gestione del Risparmio” (Minerva Bancaria, 2021) and co-authored the book “Savings managers: essential rules” (Bancaria Editrice, 2006), in addition to writing numerous articles for financial magazines.

Experience

Establishment and Authorization of Financial Operators

Assistance in projects related to the establishment and authorization of financial operators, with particular (but not exclusive) focus on asset management companies (SGR), investment firms (SIM),  and crowdfunding platforms before the relevant Supervisory Authorities.

Collective Investment Schemes

Assistance in the structuring, establishment, and ongoing management of mutual investment funds and other collective investment vehicles.

Corporate Transactions and M&A in the Financial Sector

Legal advice in connection with acquisition operations, mergers, and other extraordinary corporate transactions involving banks and financial intermediaries.

Regulatory and Prudential Advisory

Ongoing assistance to financial institutions regarding internal governance, remuneration policies, and compliance with internal procedures and policies and contractual documentation.

Publications

She is the author of some articles published in financial magazines and of the notebook “Le SGR Società di Gestion del Risparmio” – I notebooks of Minerva Bancaria published in 2021, as well as co-author of the book “Savings managers: essential rules” published by Bancaria Editrice in 2006.

Bars and Courts

Milan Bar Association
Registered with the Milan Bar Association

Education

Gradueted in Law.
Gradueted in Law at the Università Cattolica di Milano

Languages

Italian
English

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