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Amilcare Sada
Biography
Amilcare boasts a distinguished career spanning over two decades, during which he has provided expert guidance on a multitude of litigation matters, including domestic and international banking, finance, restructuring, insolvency, and commercial litigation.
He advises major international and domestic clients active in various sectors (such as financial services, technology, life sciences, industrial and manufacturing, etc.). His expertise extends to advising on criminal and regulatory investigations initiated by financial services authorities and public bodies (e.g. Consob, Bank of Italy, FSA and FCA), particularly in areas concerning white-collar crime, anti-money laundering, and sanctions enforcement, as well as on international arbitration.
Amilcare coordinates the Legal Tech focus group at A&O Shearman Italy, where he's at the forefront of innovating and tailoring cutting-edge legal tech solutions for our Italian clientele.
Practice areas
- Disputes
- White-collar defense and global investigations
- Financial services litigation
Sectors
- Banks
- Life sciences and healthcare
- Defense
Selected experience
- An international bank, together with the appointed criminal counsel, as defendant, pursuant to Italian Legislative Decree 231/2001 on companies’ quasi-criminal liability and as vicarious liability in relation to a disputed financial transaction with a leading Italian bank. Our assistance included defending our client against the prosecutors’ request to seize EUR1.8bn of its assets. The Criminal Court of Siena rejected the prosecutors’ request which constitutes one of the largest seizure orders made against a single entity in Italy. Civil damages could amount to approximately hundreds of millions of Euros.
- An international bank in various civil actions brought by certain shareholders in connection with our client having allegedly caused direct damages in relation to a EUR2bn capital increase by a listed company which allegedly led to an accounting fraud. The value of the claims is more than EUR700m.
- An Italian SPV which invests in non-performing loans (NPLs) and is subscribed to by a major US investment bank, against a petition for bankruptcy filed against the SPV by certain service providers. This sets an important precedent about the bankruptcy remoteness of an Italian SPV against claims brought by third party service providers.
- A Chinese bank, as defendant, in the biggest money laundering proceedings faced by a financial institution in Italy, involving more than 200 defendants (including a money transfer company) and charges of mafia association. The value of the flow of money, object of this complex regulatory case, was approximately EUR2bn.
Education
- JD, University of Turin, 2005
Admissions
- Admitted to practice before the Italian Supreme Court of Cassation and other Highest Courts, Italy, 2021 Admitted as avvocato, Italy, 2009
Languages
- English
- Italian