Gianluca Brancadoro is a Lawyer and founding member of Associazione Professionale Brancadoro – Mirabile.
He is Professor of Commercial Law at the University of Teramo.
He is the author of the monographs "La sollecitazione del pubblico risparmio," "L’amministrazione controllata," "trumenti finanziari e mercato mobiliare," and "Società di capitali e crisi sistemiche," as well as numerous publications on corporate and bankruptcy law.
Legal advisory work (assistance with corporate governance, acquisitions, restructuring and other extraordinary transactions; drafting of contracts, opinions) is carried out for international business groups in the areas of corporate law, financial markets and corporate crisis and restructuring. He conducts litigation, particularly before the Supreme Court of Cassation and in arbitration, including acting as arbitrator or chairman of the Board. He assists major industrial groups, including Webuild, Poste Italiane, Leonardo, Gavio. On behalf of the Bank of Italy, ECB and Consob, he deals with receiverships of banks and other financial intermediaries (recently: Banca Carige, Banca Popolare di Spoleto). His professional activity has led him to deal with the most relevant national cases of corporate crisis, both as extraordinary commissioner and as legal counsel (e.g., Alitalia Lai in a.s., Tirrenia Navigazione in a.s., Astaldi).
He sits on the boards of directors of leading banks, financial and insurance companies. In 1995 he was a member of the Scientific Committee for the reform of bankruptcy law. He is a member of INSOL (International organization for the study of business crisis). In the years 2003-2005, he was a member of the Ministerial Commission for Reform of Company Law. In the years 2005-2009 he served as a board member of IVASS (formerly ISVAP). He was a member of the Promoting Committee of Banca del Mezzogiorno, as designated by the Minister of Economy. In 2012, he was a member of the Working Table for the reform of the bankruptcy law under Decree Law No. 83 of June 2, 2012. Since May 2019, he has been an independent director on the Board of Directors and a member of the Remuneration Committee of AmTrust Assicurazioni S.p.A. Since May 2022, he has been an independent Director of Fondo Italiano d'Investimento, as designated by Cassa Depositi e Prestiti, as well as Chairman of the Compensation and Appointments Committee.
He graduated with honors in Law from University of Rome La Sapienza in 1978 and qualified as a Lawyer in 1981.