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Associate Professor Matteo Solinas

Associate Professor Matteo Solinas

Associate Professor

PGCAP, University of Glasgow

PhD, London School of Economics and Political Science

LLM (Dist), University of Warwick

MSc, Universita' Bocconi 

LLB, Universita' Cattolica 

 

Law & Justice
School of Private & Commercial Law

Matteo Solinas is an Associate Professor in the School of Private and Commercial law. His current and ongoing research focuses on company law, financial regulation, as well as personal property

Before joining UNSW, Matteo was an Associate Professor in Commercial Law at the Law Faculty of Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington and previously served as lecturer (and then senior lecturer) for five years at the School of Law at the University of Glasgow.  He also worked as legal researcher at the Financial Markets Law Committee c/o Bank of England and in 2023-2024 as legal adviser at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand.

Prior to undertaking his academic career, Matteo practiced corporate law in Milan for almost a decade and is a qualified solicitor in England and Wales (non practising).

 
E-mail
m.solinas@unsw.edu.au
  • Books | 2019
    Solinas M, 2019, J Birds, M Varney, M Leiser, M Solinas, D Attenborough and Z Zhang (eds.), "Boyle and Birds' Company Law" - 10th edition (Lexis Nexis 2019).
    Books | 2014
    Solinas M, 2014, J Birds, B Clark, C Twigg-Flesner, G McCormack, M Solinas, C Villiers (eds) "Boyle and Birds’ Company Law" - 9th edition (Jordans 2014)
    Books | 2014
    Solinas M, 2014, Legal Evolution and Hybridisation The Law of Shares Transfer in England
  • Book Chapters | 2024
    Solinas M, 2024, 'Company Charges I: Introduction, Restrictions on Granting Security, and Nature of Charges', in Tolley's Company Law Service, LexisNexis
    Book Chapters | 2024
    Solinas M, 2024, 'Company Charges III: Registration of Charges, Overseas Companies, and Scotland', in Tolley's Company Law Service, LexisNexis
    Book Chapters | 2023
    Solinas M, 2023, 'Charges over Shares I: Categories of Charge over Shares', in Tolley's Company Law Service, Lexis Nexis
    Book Chapters | 2023
    Solinas M, 2023, 'Charges over Shares II: Consequences of Taking a Charge over Shares', in Tolley's Company Law Service, Lexis Nexis
    Book Chapters | 2023
    Solinas M, 2023, 'Charges over Shares III: Priorities, Notices and Enforcement', in Tolley's Company Law Service, Lexis Nexis
    Book Chapters | 2023
    Solinas M, 2023, 'Charges over Shares III: Priorities, Notices and Enforcement', in Tolley's Company Law Service, Lexis Nexis
    Book Chapters | 2022
    Solinas M, 2022, 'Payment Obligations', in R Anderson (ed), Scots Commercial Law, Edinburgh University Press
    Book Chapters | 2022
    Solinas M, 2022, 'Types of Loans and their Rights', in P Millett, M Todd and A Alcock (eds) Gore-Browne on Companies, Lexis Nexis
    Book Chapters | 2021
    Solinas M, 2021, 'Companies and Other Associations - The European Framework', in P Millett, M Todd and A Alcock (eds) Gore-Browne on Companies, Lexis Nexis
    Book Chapters | 2021
    Solinas M, 2021, 'European Financial Market Regulation', in P Millett, M Todd and A Alcock (eds) Gore-Browne on Companies
    Book Chapters | 2021
    Solinas M, 2021, 'Trustless’ Distributed Ledgers and Custodial Services', in I Chiu and G Deipenbrock (eds) Routledge Handbook of Financial Technology and Law, Routledge
    Book Chapters | 2020
    Solinas M, 2020, 'General Disclosure Requirements -The European Framework', in P Millett, M Todd and A Alcock (eds) Gore-Browne on Companies, Lexis Nexis
    Book Chapters | 2019
    Solinas M, 2019, 'European Corporate Forms', in C Gerner-Beuerle (ed) Gore-Browne on EU Company Law, Jordans
    Book Chapters | 2019
    Solinas M, 2019, 'Free Movement of Companies in the EU (with C Gerner-Beuerle)', in C Gerner-Beuerle (ed) Gore-Browne on EU Company Law, Jordans
    Book Chapters | 2016
    Solinas M, 2016, 'I finanziamenti Mezzanini', in E Panzarini A Dolmetta and S Patriarca (eds), Contratti e Operazioni di Finanziamento, Zanichelli Editore
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Solinas M, 2015, 'Directors’ Remuneration in Italy', in C Van der Elst (ed) Directors’ Compensation in Comparative Corporate Perspective - The Regulatory Framework, Kluwer Law International
    Book Chapters | 2014
    Solinas M, 2014, 'Payment Obligations', in I MacNeil (eds), Scottish Commercial Law, Avizandum
    Book Chapters | 2002
    Solinas M, 2002, 'Criminal law entries', in Nuovo Dizionario di banca, Borsa e Finanza, IeBB on behalf of ABI and the Bank of Italy
  • Journal articles | 2023
    Solinas M, 2023, 'Growing (in)securities: the cult of ‘equity’s darling’ in Australian financial law', Capital Markets Law Journal, 18, pp. 78 - 100, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cmlj/kmac027
    Journal articles | 2022
    Solinas M, 2022, 'Domesticating Crypto Trading in Commercial Practice. Lessons from Zi Wang v Graham Darby', New Zealand Business Law Quarterly, 27, pp. 54 - 71
    Journal articles | 2021
    Solinas M, 2021, 'Investors’ Rights in (Crypto) Custodial Holdings: Ruscoe v Cryptopia Ltd (in Liquidation)', The Modern Law Review, 84, pp. 155 - 167, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-2230.12588
    Journal articles | 2021
    Solinas M, 2021, 'Pushing the Boundaries: A Tentative Taxonomy of Money in New Zealand Private Law', Victoria University of Wellington Law Review, 52, pp. 607 - 622, http://dx.doi.org/10.26686/vuwlr.v52i3.7334
    Journal articles | 2021
    Solinas M, 2021, 'The Future of Money: Central Bank Digital Currencies in the Eurosystem', Journal of Banking and Finance Law and Practice, 33, pp. 217 - 222
    Journal articles | 2020
    Solinas M, 2020, 'Germany's Highest Court Challenges the Legality of the ECB Monetary Tools (and the EU's Entire Legal Order)', Journal of Banking and Finance Law and Practice, 31, pp. 180 - 184
    Journal articles | 2020
    Solinas M, 2020, 'History Repeating: Trading Restrictions in Europe at the time of Covid 19', Journal of Banking and Finance Law and Practice, 31, pp. 175 - 179
    Journal articles | 2019
    Solinas M, 2019, 'Bitcoiners in Wonderland: Lessons from the Cheshire Cat', Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly, pp. 431 - 456
    Journal articles | 2017
    Solinas M, 2017, 'Brexit and EU Financial Services Regulation: Is 'Third Party Equivalence' a Credible Alternative to Passporting?', Journal of Banking and Finance Law and Practice, 28, pp. 170 - 175
    Journal articles | 2017
    Solinas M, 2017, 'The Nature of Legal Transplants - Inspirations from Postcolonial Scholarship', New Zealand Association for Comparative Law Yearbook, 22, pp. 179 - 216
    Journal articles | 2017
    Solinas M, 2017, 'The Problem of ‘Adverse Selection’ in the (Proposed) Regulation of Financial Advice in New Zealand', New Zealand Universities Law Review, pp. 1215 - 1246
    Journal articles | 2016
    Solinas M, 2016, 'Ad Impossibilia Nemo Tenetur – On the Recent Attempts to Harmonize the Law of Intermediated Securities', Journal of Banking and Finance Law and Practice, pp. 240 - 265
    Journal articles | 2016
    Solinas M, 2016, 'CJEU Maximillian Schrems v Data Protection Commissioner (Case C-362/14)', Journal of Banking and Finance Law and Practice, 27, pp. 255 - 259
    Journal articles | 2015
    Solinas M, 2015, 'T Keijser (ed) Securities Law (OUP 2014) (book review)', Edinburgh Law Review, pp. 442 - 445
    Journal articles | 2014
    Solinas M, 2014, 'P Conac, U Segna and L Thévenoz (eds) Intermediated Securities (CUP 2013) (book review)', Edinburgh Law Review, 18, pp. 305 - 309
    Journal articles | 2014
    Solinas M, 2014, 'The Proposal for a European Council Regulation on the Statute for a European Private Company: Barking Up the Wrong Tree?', P Millett, M Todd and A Alcock (eds) Gore-Browne on Company Law (Jordans) Special Release, pp. 134 - 151
    Journal articles | 2013
    Solinas M, 2013, 'JR LaBrosse, R Olivares-Caminal,Risk and D Singhin (eds) Managing Risk in the Financial System (EE 2012) (book review)', Banking and Finance Law Review, 28, pp. 129 - 132
    Journal articles | 2013
    Solinas M, 2013, 'The Circulation of Indirectly Held Securities Under English Law: Operational Changes and Law Reform', Contratto e Impresa/Europa 181-217, 31, pp. 181 - 217
    Journal articles | 2012
    Solinas M, 2012, 'R McCormick - Legal Risk in Financial Markets (OUP 2016) (book review)', Edinburgh Law Review, 16, pp. 139 - 141
    Journal articles | 2012
    Solinas M, 2012, 'Right or Appropriation and Legal Change', Edinburgh Law Review, 16, pp. 444 - 453
    Journal articles | 2011
    Gerner-Beuerle C; Solinas M; Kershaw D, 2011, 'Is the Board Neutrality Rule Trivial? Amnesia about Corporate Law in European Takeover Regulation', European Business Law Review, 22, pp. 559 - 622, http://dx.doi.org/10.54648/eulr2011030
    Journal articles | 2011
    Solinas M, 2011, 'Is the Board Neutrality Rule Trivial? Amnesia about Corporate Law in European Takeover (with C Gerner-Beuerle and D Kershaw)', European Business Law Review, 22, pp. 559 - 624
    Journal articles | 2011
    Solinas M, 2011, 'The Law of Shares Transfer in England after the Enactment of the Companies Act 2006', Contratto e Impresa/Europa, 16, pp. 580 - 614
    Journal articles | 2001
    Solinas M, 2001, 'Brevi note in tema di danno in una controversa fattispecie di truffa', Foro Ambrosiano, pp. 217 - 226