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.
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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 and part of the M&A and Equity Capital Markets department of the law firm DLA Piper LLP, based in Milan (Italy). I assist national and international clients, public companies and financial institutions in mergers and acquisition as well as in the financial market transactions. During the university period, I also joined the Corporate & Commercial team of the law firm Simmons & Simmons LLP in Milan (Italy).
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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 recapitalised 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.
The research will also be conducted through a comparative analisys with the so-called contingent capital – introduced by North American practice and already used by
banks – to be considered in these circumstances as a sort of survival capital being able to
support the business continuity of companies.
