Professor Giovanni Strampelli

Giovanni Strampelli is Full Professor of Business Law and Director of the PhD in Legal Studies at Bocconi University, Milan. He teaches and writes in the areas of corporate law, accounting law, bankruptcy law and securities regulation. His research has been published in the Washington and Lee Law Review, the Journal of Corporation Law, the Virginia Law & Business Review, the Harvard Business Law Review, the European Business Organization Law Review and the European Company Financial Law Review, as well as in leading Italian journals (e.g. Rivista delle Società, Banca Borsa e Titoli di Credito, Rivista di Diritto Civile). He is also the author of several book chapters and two books. In 2024, he co-edited with Luca Enriques the volume Board-Shareholder Dialogue.
Policy Debate, Legal Constraints and Best Practices, which provides a comprehensive analysis of the financial, managerial, policy and legal issues arising from the dialogue between shareholders and company boards.

His research covers a range of topics in corporate and capital markets law, including high-frequency trading and market abuse, board-shareholder engagement, director independence in listed companies with controlling shareholders, the interaction between international accounting standards (IAS/IFRS) and corporate capital, and the relevance of issuers' accounting disclosures to different investor groups. He has been a visiting scholar at numerous research institutes and universities, including the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance in Munich, the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg and the University of Oxford.