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Salvo Arena

Salvo Arena is one of the leading members of Chiomenti’s M&A practice and Head of the New York office. With over twenty years of experience advising clients on leveraged buyouts and M&A transactions, Salvo is a trusted adviser for private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies on their most critical transactions and other business initiatives. Salvo regularly represents private equity firms in their most complex transactions with experience spanning the entire range of M&A activity, including many significant leveraged buyouts, minority investments, complex carve-out transactions, joint ventures, and cross-border transactions. Salvo brings a valuable global perspective to a dealmaking landscape that is increasingly cross-border in nature. Salvo has also a broad-based transactional practice with an emphasis on clients in the sports industry, including teams, leagues and owners, media companies, private investment funds, and financial institutions, and he is considered one of the leading lawyers in such field. · Chiomenti

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About

Salvo Arena is a Partner at Chiomenti, a leading member of the firm's Corporate / M&A practice and Head of the New York office. He has over twenty years' experience advising private equity sponsors and portfolio companies on leveraged buyouts, M&A, carve-outs, joint ventures and cross-border transactions, and maintains a broad transactional practice with an emphasis on the sports industry.

Practice areas

Corporate / M&APrivate EquityBanking & FinanceSports LawCross-Border Transactions

Office

Expertise

Leveraged BuyoutsCarve-Out TransactionsMinority InvestmentsJoint VenturesCross-Border M&ASports IndustryMedia CompaniesPrivate Investment FundsFinancial Institutions

Education

  • Graduated in Law, Università degli Studi di Catania (Italy), 1993
  • Master, Business Management, ISIDA - Istituto superiore per imprenditori e dirigenti di azienda, Catania (Italy), 1993
  • Ph.D., Commercial Law, Università degli Studi di Catania (Italy), 1999
  • LL.M., Harvard University, Cambridge (US), 2000
  • Executive Education, Leadership in Law Firms, Harvard Law School (US), 2017

Admissions

  • Member of the Catania Bar (Italy), 1997
  • Admitted to the New York State Bar (US), 2001

Languages

ItalianEnglishSpanish