
Pierluigi Matera
Lecturer
B.A., LUISS of Rome
M.A., LUISS of Rome
Ph.D., Unisa
Biography
Pierluigi Matera is a corporate law scholar and an attorney with a vast experience in both U.S. and European company law. He writes and teaches in the areas of comparative law, sports law, and corporate law—in particular M&A, corporate litigation, and history of business corporations.
Prof. Matera has published extensively in both peer-reviewed and student-edited journals, including the Delaware Journal of Corporate Law and the Fordham Journal of Corporate and Financial Law.
Matera is Professor of Comparative Law and of U.S. Corporate Law at Rome-LCU, where he also served as the Head of the Law School from 2014 to 2017. He is also Professor of Law and Economics – Business and Corporate Law at Rome-LUISS, and a visiting fellow and long-life member at Wolfson College, Cambridge. Since 2010 he has been executive director of IDEMS (Centre of Research for Sports Law and Management).
He holds a PhD in Comparative and Civil law. He is also a board member of the Arbitration Chamber of the Rome Bar Association and is serving as a member of the Sports Law Committee of the same Bar.
Since March 2022, he is the President of the Safeguarding Officer of the Italian Gymnastics Federation. He also served as the Deputy Prosecutor General of the Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI).
- Profile Types
- Faculty, JD Program, and Part-Time Faculty
- Areas of Interest
- Corporate Law, Corporate, Business & Transactional Law, Mergers & Acquisitions, and Sports Law
- Profiles
- Pierluigi Matera
Publications
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Pierluigi Matera, Delaware's Dominance, Wyoming's Dare: New Challenge, Same Outcome? 27 Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law (2022)
Scholarly Commons
Courses
Corporations: LAW JD 816
Course about the legal structure and characteristics of business corporations. Topics include the promotion and formation of corporations; the distribution of power between management and shareholders; the limitations on management powers imposed by state law fiduciary duties and federal securities laws; shareholder derivative suits; capital structure and financing of corporations; and fundamental changes in corporate structure, such as mergers and sales of assets. The course serves as a prerequisite to advanced courses. PREREQUISITE: Business Fundamentals. GRADING NOTICE: The CR/NC/H option is not offered in Professor Tung's section.
FALL 2022: LAW JD 816 A1 , Sep 7th to Dec 7th 2022Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon,Wed | 2:10 pm | 4:10 pm | 4 | Scott Hirst | LAW | 103 |
Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon,Wed | 10:40 am | 12:40 pm | 4 | Pierluigi Matera | LAW | 103 |
Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue,Thu | 2:10 pm | 4:10 pm | 4 | Frederick Tung | LAW | 414 |
Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon,Wed | 2:10 pm | 4:10 pm | 4 | Kevin Outterson | LAW | 414 |