Sonia Locantore

Partner

sonia.locantore@leplex.it

Sonia is a partner specialising in financial services and corporate law.

She advises on a continuous basis foreign international banks and financial institutions as well as Italian public and private companies on various banking and financial services matters.

She has extensive experience in advising both Italian and international clients on a wide variety of regulatory issues surrounding private and public M&A transactions. Among other things, Sonia has gained a significant expertise advising both Italian and international clients on the incorporation, authorization and organization of banks, banking and financial intermediaries, fund managers and insurance companies.

Furthermore, she provides ongoing assistance to issuers and intermediaries with reference to the marketing of products and services to clients, including in the context of public offerings. She also offers legal assistance regarding sanction proceedings against banks or intermediaries for the breach of banking or financial laws.

Finally, she advises regulated entities with reference to corporate governance and compliance issues.

Before joining the firm she worked at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer for fifteen years, during which she was also seconded to Goldman Sachs International in London for almost a year.

Sonia graduated in law (J.D., summa cum laude) from the University of Pisa, she holds the master’s degree in management at ‘Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna’ of Pisa and is a member of the Italian Bar.

A native Italian speaker, she speaks English fluently.

She has served as a member of the board of directors of an Italian bank and chairman of the board of directors of an asset management company. Currently, she serves as independent director in an asset management company and in a financial intermediary and she also serves as member of the Management and regulatory committee of credit and financial institutions at the Order of Chartered Accountants and Accounting Experts of Rome.