Mr Casimiro Antonio Nigro

Casimiro Nigro is a Lecturer in Business Law at the University of Leeds, where he teaches courses in corporate finance, corporate law, and corporate governance, and leads the module on Corporate Finance and Securities Law.

Before joining Leeds, he was at the LawFin Center of Goethe University Frankfurt, where he taught Comparative Corporate Governance and Law, The Law & Finance of Start-up Financing and Governance, and The Law & Economics of Private Equity & Venture Capital Contracting.

Over time, he has also taught related subjects at LUISS Guido Carli in Rome and has been invited to lecture on corporate law topics at Stanford University, the University of Vienna, the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, the University of Barcelona, Reichman University, and the University of Siena.

He continues to collaborate closely with the LawFin Center at Goethe University Frankfurt, where he co-leads the organization of the interdisciplinary Workshop Series on Venture Capital and Private Equity (with Bocconi University and ECGI) and helps organize the annual conference on the Law and Finance of Private Equity and Venture Capital (with Bocconi, Oxford, LSE, and the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School).

Before entering academia full-time, Casimiro worked in international law firms on corporate law matters, advising on high-profile transactions, including small PE transactions, VC deals and capital raising through equity crowdfunding platforms. In that capacity, he also provided input on government initiatives to reform Italian corporate law and contributed to consultations relevant to EU-level lawmaking.