Bepi Pezzulli
Bepi Pezzulli (1970, Napoli) is an Italian-British business lawyer and corporate executive.
Biography
Born as Giuseppe Pezzulli, he is the older brother of actor Francesco Pezzulli, the official Italian voice of Leonardo Di Caprio. Aged 15, he joined the venerable "Nunziatella" Military Academy, as a cadet of the 1985-1988 class.
Upon leaving the army career, he graduated in Law at LUISS Guido Carli University of Rome in 1993. He then moved to the United States, where he received a Master of Laws from New York University School of Law in 1998. In the same year, he took up a position as attorney at law at the white shoe Wall Street firm Sullivan & Cromwell engaging in capital markets, investment management and M&A work. In 2003, he earned a JD from Columbia University School of Law, where he was appointed a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. In the same year, he joined Shearman & Sterling, likewise working in the capital markets, investment management and M&A area. Between 2007-2009 he was treasury counsel at the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London. In 2009 he joined Turning Point Consulting as Head of Legal and Compliance.
Between 2013-2015 Pezzulli worked at global investment manager BlackRock as Head of Legal and Compliance for Italy, Cyprus, Greece, and Turkey. Further expanding on a fin-tech expertise, Pezzulli joined Italiaonline, the Internet leader and largest digital media group in Italy, to work on the merger with Seat Pagine Gialle, which created the market leader in the digital advertising space for large corporate accounts and local marketing services for SMEs.
Since 2016, Pezzulli serves as Chairman of Select Milano, a liberal think-tank and business diplomacy initiative straddling across London and Milan, to foster the candidacy of the latter as hosting town for the market infrastructure and administrative bodies of the European Union which would eventually leave the English capital after Brexit.
Pezzulli is a dual Italian/British national and is qualified as an Avvocato (District Bar of Rome), Solicitor (Senior Courts of England & Wales), and Attorney at Law (State Bar of New York).
Recognition
Aside from his cross-border regulatory expertise, Pezzulli is highly reputed amongst his peers for his deal advisory work. Pezzulli has been credited by TopLegal and Legal500 as the model legal risk manager, for being capable of achieving process optimisation and efficiency of service delivery via the application of quantitative management models to the provision of in-house legal services. He is listed in the GC Power List (Italy) 2016 and received the In-house Community Award as General Counsel of the year 2016.