Linklaters | Alessandro Salvador

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“I am a litigator with almost twenty-five-year experience in representing Italian and international clients both in court and arbitration proceedings covering several areas of law and industries including corporate and shareholders disputes, banking and financial services litigation, insurance, R&I dispute, post M&A disputes, real estate, hospitality, general commercial and consumer litigation. My practice extends also to compliance, sanctions related advice, and internal corporate investigations. I am passionate, reliable and fully focused on the client’s needs. A result-oriented attitude is my lighthouse when I advise on any sort of dispute or pre-contentious situation, with the aim to maximizing clients’ goal or mitigating the risks they face.”

Overview

Alessandro is currently counsel in LAI Linklaters. Alessandro represents Italian and international companies before courts and arbitral tribunals, as well as in cross-border litigation. He has a broad experience in corporate/shareholders disputes, post M&A disputes, banking and financial services litigations, securities litigation, R&I disputes, insurance, real estate, commercial and consumer disputes. He also covers compliance, sanctions related advice and corporate investigations.

Before joining Linklaters he was a Partner at Studio Legale Associato Shearman & Sterling LLP where back in 2015 he launched and headed the litigation and arbitration practice in Italy until April 2024.
Alessandro has been recognized by Chambers Global 2019 and 2020 as a “very proactive and knowledgeable” lawyer but also ranked by Chamber Europe 2019 and 2020; clients praise him for his “fantastic arguments” in Court.

Beyond the Office

Alessandro set up and launched the litigation and arbitration department at the law firm Shearman & Sterling LLP in 2015. He has gained solid experience in the areas of corporate, commercial, banking, and financial law. Specifically, he deals with liability actions against directors and statutory auditors, challenges to shareholders' and board resolutions, disputes concerning shareholders' agreements, investment agreements and joint ventures, disputes concerning warranties in the context of acquisition, disputes over real estate JVs and development projects, litigation concerning investment services, sale of derivative products, institutional disputes, disputes relating to distribution agreements, agency, procurement, bankruptcy litigation and insolvency proceedings, investigations -White-Collar Crimes, he also gained experience in internal corporate investigations and sanctions, Criminal/231, M&A matter.

Education and Qualifications

Alessandro graduated in Law at University Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, in Milan, magna cum laude. He was an Academic Visitor at University of Oxford and he holds a Ph.D in Banking and Financial Law at University of Siena, Faculty of Economics Richard M. Goodwin.

Thought Leadership

Alessandro's publications include:

On the regime of 'prorogatio' of directors of in-house public companies in Rivista di Diritto Societario/Giappichelli 1/2019, pp. 84 et seq.
Pledge of unit-linked policies and custody obligations of the object of the security in Banca borsa e titoli di credito/ Milano-Giuffré, 2018, II, pp. 115 et seq.
The support administration and the management of the 'protected' person's assets: the case of so-called linked life policies in Assicurazioni (Wolters Kluwer Italia), 2013, I, p. 31 et seq.
'Music is a whole' and Law? Some thoughts from a legal standpoint on a recent book by Daniel Barenboim" in ISLL Papers - the Italian Society for Law and Literature - University of Bologna - Jul 1, 2013 https://lawandliterature.uniurb.it/pubblicazioni-publications/isll-papers/isll-papers-2013-vol-6/

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