Ermanno Cappa

Ermanno Cappa, who graduated from the University of Pavia, began his career as a lawyer in 1978.

He worked for several years as director of legal and corporate affairs for various banks: Banca del Monte di Milano, Credito Commerciale, Banca del Monte di Lombardia, Banca Regionale Europea.

After leaving the Legal and Corporate Affairs Department of Banca Regionale Europea (where he was, among other things, the manager responsible for anti-money laundering and a member of various internal bodies including the supervisory body pursuant to Legislative Decree no. 231 of 2001), he joined Studio La Scala as a partner. He then founded the Ermanno Cappa e Partners Law Firm.

He was a member of the legal and banking commissions of the ABI, as well as a member of various interbank organizations such as the SSB technical group – which generated the so-called electronic wallet – and the GIANOS security-anti-money laundering-algorithms committee.

His experience focuses on corporate law and, in particular, on corporate, banking and financial operations, especially on criminal-commercial aspects, with regard to governance, compliance and the issue of organizational models, with specialization in banking crimes and anti-money laundering legislation.

He is a trusted lawyer for leading Italian and foreign banks and financial intermediaries.

He holds various positions: he founded the Ambrosoli Study Center, of which he was president for 10 years; president emeritus of AIGI – Italian Association of Corporate Lawyers, of which he was president for several years (in this context he founded the “series of studies on corporate law” published by Giuffré, as well as the National School of Specialization for Corporate Lawyers, of which he is scientific director); member of the Board of Directors of AEDBF – European Association for the Study of Banking and Financial Law; founding member and member of the Board of Directors of ARGIS – Research Association for the Governance of Social Enterprises; president of various Supervisory Bodies pursuant to Legislative Decree 231/2001; statutory auditor of a large Bank; academic of AEREC – European Academy for Economic and Cultural Relations; member of the scientific committee of various legal journals; member of the Committee of Experts of Transparency International; scientific director of the master’s degree in “business lawyer” of Il Sole 24 Ore; member of the scientific committee of the master’s degree in criminal-corporate law of Just Legal Services.

He has written several articles on banking law, criminal banking law, anti-money laundering legislation and regulations to combat economic crime and is a lecturer in various Law Schools, as well as a speaker at numerous conferences.

His main publications include: the monograph Il opinioni legale (Ed. Giuffré 2004), with a preface by Piero Schlesinger; the volume Normativa antiriciclaggio e segnalazioni di operazioni sosspetti (Anti-Money Laundering and Reporting of Suspicious Operations), edited with Umberto Morera, with a preface by Pier Luigi Vigna (Ed. Il Mulino 2009); the essay Profit, not for profit, brief insights, part of the ARGIS collection “buone regole per la cura dell’altro” (Ed. Guerini 2009); as well as the volume Il riciclaggio del denaro. Il fenomeno, il reato, le norme di contro (Money Laundering. The Phenomenon, the Crime, and the Rules of Counteraction), edited with Luigi Domenico Cerqua, with a preface by Anna Maria Tarantola (Ed. Giuffré 2012).