About Giorgio Afferni

Giorgio Afferni is the managing partner of Delex Law Firm and professor of private law at the University of Genoa. He holds an LLM from Harvard Law School (’02) and a Doctorate in Private Law from the University of Pisa (’06). He is recognised as one of the leading experts in collective litigation in Italy, having litigated some of the most important collective actions filed in Italy in the field of competition law, consumer law and financial markets. He was a member of the Italian Financial Ombudsman of the Italian Securities and Exchange Commission. He advised the Italian Ministry of Justice on the transition from the old to the new class action regime in Italy, and the Italian Parliament on the transposition of the EU directive on representative actions.