Lorenzo Parola, Adjunct Faculty Member at Luiss Business School, is the Founding and Managing Partner of Parola Associati. He is both admitted to the Italian Supreme Court (Corte di Cassazione) and as a Solicitor of England and Wales. He is one of the leading energy transition and energy technology lawyers in Italy.

Mr Parola advises infrastructure funds, utilities and oil majors in domestic and cross-border M&A transactions in the renewables, power, oil & gas, energy transition and circular economy sectors. He has a substantial track-record on permitting, contractual and regulatory issues related to the development of energy infrastructures, including renewables and CCGT plants, interconnectors, LNG regasification terminals and gas storages. He is recognized an unparalleled expertise in industry specialty contracts such as PPAs, tolling arrangements, take-or-pay GSAs and LNG SPAs, pipeline transportation agreements, EPC contracts, energy efficiency contracts, physical and financial energy trading, including CO2, blockchain and smart contracts. He is regularly instructed, either as counsel or arbitrator, in the context of national and international arbitrations pertaining to gas sales agreements and in the construction sector.

He is a member of the Board of Directors and Chairman of the Sustainable Value Creation Committee at Italgas S.p.A. (the listed utility which is the largest Italian gas distribution company). He is actively devoted to pro bono projects in favour of its own Community, with a focus on teaching education to legality and fighting cyber-bullying in secondary schools.