He has gained extensive experience in commercial law and administrative law, with particular reference to all those industrial sectors in which interdisciplinary skills relating to private law and public law are required.

He has assisted several clients in the following areas:

• privatization operations;
• M&A and extraordinary finance operations involving publicly held companies;
• quotation procedures;
• procedures for the placement of financial instruments;
• merger and demerger operations.

He assists some of the most important operators in the public services, procurement, concessions and public-private partnership sectors. He has key expertise in the port sector, infrastructure and, more generally, all so-called public services.

Andrea Pericu has also provided professional assistance to private equity fund managers and other financial intermediaries. He regularly assists national and international companies with all aspects of corporate governance and compliance in regulated markets, and has gained significant experience in corporate litigation.

He is an associate professor of Commercial Law, Market Regulation and Competition Law, and Energy Law at the University of Genoa (Department of Law). He is the author of numerous publications on the regulation of public services (including the energy and gas sectors), publicly held companies, corporate law, financial markets, banking, privatizations, and tender procedures.

In 2001, he published the book “Impresa e obbligatori di servizio pubblico” (Business and Public Service Obligations, Milan, Giuffrè Editore), which has become a key reference source for academic work on public services and public service management companies. He frequently participates and speaks at conferences and seminars on the subjects of his academic research.