The LVCI company (full title Imperial-regia società privilegiata delle strade ferrate lombardo-venete e dell'Italia Centrale was a private railway company that, from 1856 to 1859, had the concession for the construction and operation of the railway network in the Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia and central Italy.
The convention saw, as actors on one side, the imperial-ministers of finance and trade and on the other: The president of the Austrian Credit Association for Trade and Industry, Prince Giovanni Adolfo of Schwarzenberg, the vice-presidents, Count Francesco Zichy and Baron A. S. di Rothschild of the Rothschild banking house.
Proceedings were delayed by the Second Italian War of Independence of 1859 following which the territory was divided by moving the border of Lombardy–Venetia to the Mincio and part of the network was incorporated into the Südbahn.
On 8 July 1860 the Parliament of the Kingdom of Italy approved the Convention of 25 June with which the concessions of railways in the territory granted to the company were recognized and confirmed (with the modifications specified in the same agreement and in the annexed documents agreements with the Austrian Government, on March 14, 1856, April 8, 1857, and September 23, 1858, and the convention of March 17, 1856 with the Austrian, Parma, Modenese, Tuscan and Papal governments).
Following the changes, the Società anonima delle strade ferrate della Lombardia e dell'Italia Centrale was subsequently established.