Biography
Giorgio Bovenzi is a cross-border specialist who leads Haynes Boone's Global Credit Risk Management practice and advises on counterparty and collateral risk in cross-border financial transactions, analyzing and crafting arrangements designed to mitigate credit risk across multiple jurisdictions. He has also represented global financial institutions and multi-national corporations in complex U.S. and non-U.S. plenary and ancillary multi-jurisdictional insolvency matters.
As a dual-trained lawyer in civil and common law, his experience spans more than 30 years in credit, banking, regulatory, derivatives, and insolvency matters in multiple jurisdictions around the world, both at Haynes Boone and while at his prior firms (Skadden, Davis Polk, and Dentons). His longstanding work relationships with country counsel from more than 90 jurisdictions worldwide enable him to deliver coordinated results and seamless, uniform counsel across multiple jurisdictions.
He has been involved in several international initiatives, including as expert consultant to the United States Delegation in connection with the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) Principles on the Operation of Close-Out Netting Provisions (2013) and as the International Bar Association observer to the development of the UNIDROIT Principles on Digital Assets and Private Law (2023).
Giorgio is ranked by the Chambers U.S. and Legal 500 professional directories, where clients have described him as "particularly recommended for his extensive knowledge of global banking laws," "a very focused lawyer who's very highly regarded by financial institutions," "very good to work with and excellent at finding solutions," able to "reconcile common law legal concepts and continental law legal concepts in a practical manner," and "unique in his 'understanding of the regulatory and risk management concerns of banks and ability to produce multi-jurisdictional solutions'."
Giorgio is also an adjunct professor of law at Fordham University School of Law in New York City, where he has taught courses on professional responsibility in multinational practice, United States domestic and cross-border insolvency law, and global credit risk management.