Duccio Zanchi is a lawyer and joins LEXIA Private as Of Counsel for Wealth Management.
He was previously Head of Legal and Litigation Services at the third-largest Italian banking group and is a contract professor of Trust Law at the University of Siena. He also teaches in various Master’s programs at the University of Siena, as well as the Universities of Firenze, Genova, and Milano (SDA Bocconi). He is a member of the “Il Trust in Italia” association, an accredited lawyer within the same association, a Full Member of STEP, and a member of the Scientific Committee of the “Il Trust, Possessionis Libertate Fide Foedus” association (Lugano, CH) and Filodiritto, where he was responsible for the Trust column.
He is the author of numerous publications, including: the entry “Trust” in the Il Sole legal encyclopedia (2008); Il Trustee nella gestione dei patrimoni – Responsabilità e risoluzione dei conflitti (Editor), Turin, 2009; Autonomia privata e affidamenti fiduciari (Editor with A. Barba), Turin, 2012; Diritto e pratica dei trusts, 2nd ed., Turin, 2016; Materiali necessari per lo studio del trust, Bologna, 2018; the entry “Trust testamentario” in G. Petrelli (Ed.), Formulario notarile commentato, edited by G. Bonilini, Milan, 2021 (2nd ed.); Trust – Dizionario ragionato, Turin 2021; and around fifty contributions on the topic of trust published in Trust e attività fiduciarie, Giurisprudenza italiana, Ianus, and Filodiritto.
