Antonio Capizzi

Sapienza University of Rome | la sapienza · Department of Legal Studies

Il Tribunale di Milano si misura con il delicato problema dell’interpretazione degli statuti di società, essendo stato chiamato ad occuparsi, in sede di reclamo di un provvedimento cautelare, dell’interpretazione di clausola statutaria dalla formulazione alquanto singolare, che mescola le caratteristiche di due note clausole di risoluzione delle si...

This article criticises the view, supported by the Italian Court of Cassation and endorsed by the majority of the Italian authors, according to which the prohibition of leonine agreements, and thus the prohibition of agreements whereby a shareholder is excluded from profits or losses, which is laid down only for partnerships by Article 2265 of the...

Il Foro Italiano, 2023, ISSN 0015-783X I comment on the Italian Court of Cassation's ruling No 22375 of 2023, which confirmed the validity of a Russian roulette clause contained in a shareholders' agreement. The decision confirmed two rulings by lower courts that have aroused wide interest and debate in Italy (Tribunale di Roma 19 October 2017 and...

This is the first European study to conduct an extensive empirical research of startup charters. Our aim is to test whether the significant reforms of the law on the Italian società a responsabilità limitata (the GmbH -type limited liability company) were successful in making Italian corporate law more amicable towards startups and venture capital...

We know that the energy transition refers to the current electrification of consumption and the parallel decarbonization of the electricity that powers it. The transition model is called also of the 3D: decarbonization, digitalization and decentralization. An important role is played from the digitalization and smartization of the grids that permit...

The paper, which is related to two previous works, has two objectives. The first objective is the identification of Italian startup companies that are actually financed by external investors (such as venture capital funds, business angel networks or individual business angels, industrial firms operating as financiers of innovative firms). This iden...

This is the first European study to conduct an extensive empirical research of startup charters. Our aim is to test whether the significant reforms of the law on the Italian società a responsabilità limitata (the GmbH-type limited liability company) were successful in making Italian corporate law more amicable towards startups and venture capital c...

This article provides an innovative interpretation of the rules of limited responsibility companies (s.r.l.), which takes into account not only and not much the phenomenon of crowdfunding, but also and above all the financing via business angels and venture capital. We therefore advance a proposal for a complete re-reading of the subject as reforme...

The paper comments a decision by Italian Supreme Court which declared ineffective a report to a central credit register (“Centrale di Allarme Interbancaria”) made by a Bank on the ground of a credit-card revocation which was not previously communicated to the holder. The paper critics the arguments of the decision, which uses a formal argument to r...