Partner · Full Professor of Private Law

Francesco Paolo Patti

Contracts, succession, and new technologies at the intersection of scholarship and legal practice.

Professional background

Francesco Paolo Patti is Full Professor of Private Law at Bocconi University in Milan. Admitted to practice in 2013, he is a member of the Rome Bar and has been authorized to appear before the Italian Court of Cassation since 2019. He has worked with the firm since 2010.

His academic and professional work focuses on contract law, succession law, and new technologies. He has authored more than one hundred publications and received fellowships from DAAD and the Max Planck Society.

He graduated with honors from Roma Tre University in 2010, earned an LL.M. at the University of Münster in 2011, and completed a Ph.D. in Law and Economics of Business at Sapienza University of Rome in 2014. He has also taught in the Department of Law at Roma Tre.

From 2018 to 2024, he served on the Bank of Italy’s Banking and Financial Ombudsman panel. Since the 2023–2024 academic year, he has co-directed Bocconi University’s Master’s program in Law of Technologies and Automated Systems.