Elena Brannetti

Senior Legal Officer in European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA).

Elena Brannetti joined ESMA in 2012 and is working in the Legal Department as a Senior Legal Officer, dealing with the areas of financial innovation, sustainable finance, data exchange, corporate reporting, prospectus, market abuse and short selling.

At ESMA, Elena also worked on supervision of credit rating agencies and trade repositories, with particular focus on investigations and enforcement matters, and on market abuse and short selling.

Before joining ESMA, Elena was for six years an Associate at Chiomenti Studio Legale, in the areas of capital markets, corporate finance, merger and acquisition, corporate governance, criminal commercial law.
As regards her academic background, Elena has a Ph. D. in Commercial Criminal Law, on market manipulation, and is a qualified lawyer.