STEFANO MONTALBETTI, PhD
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Stefano Montalbetti, PhD
PhD student in Legal Studies
About Me
I am currently enrolled as Ph.D. Student in Legal Studies, curriculum in Business & Social Law at Bocconi University in Milan (Italy).
I graduated from Bocconi University on December 16, 2016 by discussing my thesis regarding “Il contratto preliminare di preliminare”, with a final grade of 110/110 Magna cum laude. Within my Ph.D. program I had the opportunity to conduct a period of research at the University of Oxford.
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I was also selected for a study program at The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) where I had the opportunity to become acquainted with certain issues and aspects of UK commercial law. During the summer of 2022 I attended three executive courses within the LL.M Program in Business Law at University of California, Berkeley, relating to Contract Law, Mergers & Acquisitions and Corporate Finance. I am also a member of the Berkeley Global Society, an international organization having a direct presence in more than one hundred countries and composed of outstanding lawyers educated at Berkeley.
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I am a qualified lawyer in Italy enrolled in the Milan Bar Association.
​I have been frequently involved in the drafting of pro veritate opinions on various topics of commercial and corporate law, as well as in writing some legal papers to be published in legal journals.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
My research interests lie in corporate and financial market law with particular focus on equity financial instruments. In more details, my Ph.D. proposal has the aim of investigating forms of investment allowing companies to be recapitalized and, at the same time, investors to obtain an automatic redemption of the equity investment (or its conversion into other financial instruments) upon reaching a fixed maturity date or a pre-determined condition. In particular, the focus of the research is the study of "self-extinguishing" shares, namely shares designated to expire – either with or without the right to liquidation – upon the occurrence of a specific future event or the reaching of a pre-agreed maturity date. The analysis further considers the underlying rationale that may induce parties to adopt such instruments in corporate practice. The research is also conducted through a comparative analisys with financial instruments with similar features used in other jurisdictions in order to investigate a sort of survival capital being able to support the business continuity of companies.
