Niccolo Pallesi

General Counsel & Secretary of the Board of Directors
Ferretti Group
Italy

“As a GC, my role is to set the tone - encouraging a mindset where legal is forward-looking, embraces technology, and is fully embedded in strategic conversations.”

Currently serving as General Counsel & Secretary of the Board of Directors of Ferretti S.p.A., I am responsible for overseeing all legal, corporate and compliance affairs.

Prior to joining Ferretti S.p.A., I served as an associate in one of the magic circle law firm, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, in 2008 and 2009 and from January 2010 to April 2020, I served as senior legal manager of Eni S.p.A being responsible for the legal assistance to the downstream business and M&A projects.

From 2013 to 2016 I served as contract professor of “Bankruptcy Law and Crisis Management” with the Link Campus University in Rome of Italy.

From 2015 to 2019 I was appointed chairman of the tarbox legal committee, a committee established among the major international oil & gas companies with the purpose of reviewing and updating the contractual instruments related to the risks’ definition and allocation of responsibilities for into-plane refuelling operations.

I obtained a Juris Doctor degree from Luiss Guido Carli University in November 2004 in Italy, a master degree (LLM) in international tax law from the International Tax Center at the University of Leiden in August 2006 and a master degree (LLM) in business law from University of California – Berkeley School of Law in May 2007.

I am admitted to the New York Bar Association and to the Italian Bar Association.