Federico Fabiano
Consultant
Federico is a dual qualified Hong Kong and Italian lawyer. He studied in Italy, Singapore and Shanghai before settling in Hong Kong. As a seasoned corporate and commercial lawyer, he worked across different industries within the legal services, including energy and project finance, insurance, and construction. He is now a Senior Legal Counsel at Bouygues Construction Group headquartered in Hong Kong. Federico was born and raised in Italy and spent most of his early life in the motherland. Upon graduation, he felt it was the right time to take a break and leave his ordinary life path in order to pursue a different and more challenging route far from home, which would have expanded his views and internationalized his experience as never before, to the extent that both his life and career could heavily benefit from this move. To this end, he decided to move to Singapore and enroll at NUS in a Master of Laws (LLM) degree in International Business Law. The master was partly taught in Singapore and partly in Shanghai giving him the chance to dive into two new and very different worlds, one already developed and overly sophisticated and the other in its rising and fast-paced stage of development and chaos. That year well represented a turning point in his life disruptively changing him deep down and utterly inside out but it also shed lights on his next moves. After obtaining the LLM and working in Shanghai for some time, he went back to Italy to complete his traineeship and qualify as an Italian lawyer. In the meantime, he joined the British law firm, Watson Farley & Williams (WFW), as a junior associate working in the energy and project finance department in Milan. After three years of experience, he requested to move to the WFW Hong Kong office and set up an international desk to assist clients in inbound investments into China and outbound investments flowing to Southern Europe. At that point, he envisioned the opportunity of further studying and qualifying as a Hong Kong solicitor and become one of the few Italians to hold a dual qualification in Hong Kong. He therefore attended and passed the OLQE conversion exam in Hong Kong before leaving private practice and moving in-house as a Regional Legal Counsel at Generali Insurance Group in Hong Kong. Finally, after another three years of hard work and success, he accepted the challenge to flip industry again and moved to Bouygues Construction Group, where he is now a Senior Legal Counsel for the Asia desk. Being a sporty person, Federico is keen to maintain a healthy life style through intense sport training and a balanced diet. He loves playing beach volley, football and crossfit training. He is also passionate about Hong Kong and Chinese collectibles and antiques. |
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