Marco Ventoruzzo

Marco Ventoruzzo is Full Professor of Corporate Law at Università Bocconi and at SDA Bocconi School of Management.

At Bocconi he was Head of Department of Legal Studies "Angelo Sraffa" from 2016 through 2022, has coordinated the PhD in Business Law and vice-director of the Paolo Baffi Center for Financial Regulation. He was Full Professor with Tenure at the Pennsylvania State University - Dickinson School of Law, where he taught corporations, securities regulation, and international business transactions. He also was the director of the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg, and is currently a Scientific Member of the same Institution. He is Research Associate of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) and has been visiting professor at several law schools and universities, among which: Fudan University, Shanghai, China; Hamburg Law School, Germany; Esade Law School, Barcelona, Spain; National Law School of India, Bangalore; Facultad de Derecho, Universidad de Chile, Santiago; LSU Law School, Baton Rouge, LA, USA, and he lectured and gave talks at several institutions such as Oxford Law School, Pennsylvania University Law School, and Fordham Law School.

His research activity focuses on corporate law, securities regulation and comparative corporate law. He regularly publishes in the leading national and international journals. He is an editor of the following journals: Oxford Journal of Financial Regulation, European Company and Financial Law Review, Rivista delle Società, Banca Impresa e Società, Rivista del diritto societario, Rivista dei Dottori Commercialisti.

He holds a degree in Business and Economics from Università Bocconi, and a J.D. from the Università degli Studi di Milano. He received a Master of Law from Yale Law School and a PhD from the Università degli Studi di Brescia. He attended graduate courses in business law organized by Cornell Law School at Sorbonne University in Paris, and a course on American Law organized by AILE on the campus of the Michigan University. He is a lawyer admitted to practise before the Supreme Court, certified public accountant and auditor enrolled in the Registry held by the Ministry of Justice.

Teaching domains

• Corporate Law
• Banking Law
• Financial Markets Law

Latest publications

BALP G., VENTORUZZO M. Controlling shareholders and their duties in Comparative Corporate Governance A. Afsharipour, M. Gelter (Eds),Edward Elgar Publishing, pp.324-345, 2021

MARCHETTI P., SICILIANO G., VENTORUZZO M. Disclosing Directors European Business Organization Law Review, 2020, vol.21, no. 2, pp.219-251

SICILIANO G., VENTORUZZO M. Banning Cassandra from the Market? An Empirical Analysis of Short-Selling Bans during the Covid-19 Crisis European Company and Financial Law Review, 2020, vol.17, no. 3-4, pp.386-418

VENTORUZZO M. Brief remarks on “Prosperity” by Colin Mayer and the often misunderstood notion of corporate purpose Rivista delle Società, 2020, vol.65, no. 1, pp.43-50

VENTORUZZO M. Continuità aziendale, perdite sul capitale e finanziamenti soci nella legislazione emergenziale da Covid-19 Le Società, 2020, vol.39, no. 5, pp.525-537

VENTORUZZO M. Il nuovo Codice di Corporate Governance 2020: le principali novità Le Società, 2020, vol.39, no. 4, pp.439-447