Bio

Dario Latella is a partner in CARNELUTTI Law Firm. He is member of the corporate and M&A department, where his practice focuses on Corporate Law, Regulatory and Internal Controls in listed Companies, Restructuring and Bankruptcy Law. Since 2007, he has been Professor of Business Law at the University of Naples and, currently also, of Messina, where he teaches European and Italian Company Law. He is Visiting Professor in many high ranked Universities all over the world, such as Oxford, Cambridge, Durham, East Washington, Madrid, Cadiz, Warsaw, “Luigi Bocconi”, and is a member of the editorial board of several referred national and international law journals. He advises national and international corporations on corporate and restructuring matters, restructuring and winding-up procedures, IPOs, shareholders' agreements, corporate governance and corporate litigation. He is experienced in advising state-owned corporations on issues triggered by the sc “Madìa Law n. 175/2016.” He assists corporations before the Italian Judicial lower (since 1997) and higher Courts (since 2010), as he is a member of the Italian Bar. Dario has a long track record in contractual claims, corporate litigation, managers’ liability, shareholders’ decisions, minority shareholders’ protection, professional liability and tort, financial statements and balance sheet policies. Moreover, he assists corporations in improving “231 Models”, internal procedures of governance, internal audit, related parties transactions, remuneration policies and IAS-IFRS rules, and he is part of several boards as president of internal committees and/or independent director. Dario is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences and has written extensively on topics within his areas of practice: his books on Shareholders’ Derivative Litigation (Giappichelli, 2007) and The Internal Control System in Company Law (Giappichelli, 2018) are the sole legal monographs on these topics. Dario is a member of the European Corporate Governance Institute and is currently visiting Durham Law School as Professor of European Company Law (2019). He speaks English, Spanish and German, in addition to his native Italian.