Luca CM Melchionna

Luca CM Melchionna has 25+ years of experience in both private practice and academia, in Italy and in the United States. He is a transactional business attorney with a focus on regulatory, compliance, and M&A/tax. Luca currently represents and assists multinational companies and institutional entities in a variety of corporate, commercial, and tax law matters. He assists buyers and investors in the formation and/or acquisition of U.S. companies, local assets, and international business transactions.

Luca is Counselor of Legal Affairs of the Permanent Delegation to the UN of EPLO, the European Public Law Organization, a thirty-year-old international organization dedicated to the promotion of the Rule of Law. https://www1.eplo.int/

He graduated from Sapienza University, Rome, School of Law, with a Juris Doctor. He earned the following degrees and certificates: Master in Laws (LLM) in International Business Law, Sapienza University, Rome, Business School; Master in Laws (LLM), International Tax Planning (with honors), Sapienza University, Rome; Certificate in Comparative Corporate Law, University of Paris I/Cornell Law School; Master in Laws (LLM), Boston University, School of Law; Certificate Tax and Revenue Management, Executive Education, Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government; Certificate AI and the Law: Executive Education, Harvard Law School and Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society (2026). He was a visiting professor at Boston University, School of Law; Director of the LLM Program and Adjunct professor of law, St. John’s Law School, NYC (where he received two St. John’s Law School Dean’s Teaching Awards); Visiting scholar at Columbia University.

Luca is admitted to practice law in the State of New York and before the following courts: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit; U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York; U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of New York; U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Michigan; U.S. District Court of the Western District of Michigan; U.S. Court of International Trade. He is also a member of the New York City Bar, the American Bar Association (ABA), and the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA). He currently serves as chair of the Business Law Section (BLS) of NYSBA, and chair of the Technology and Venture Law Committee of the BLS. Luca is also a member of AIETC, the NYSBA Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technology Committee, and a member of the New York State Judiciary Advisory Committee on Artificial Intelligence and the Courts.  He has been selected New York Metro SuperLawyers in 2024, 2025, and 2026.