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- Chiomenti > Milan - Chiomenti > Rome ### Firm Details Strategic Committee: Francesco Tedeschini (Chairman), Filippo Modulo (Managing Partner), Gregorio Consoli (Managing Partner), Carola Antonini (Partner), Paolo Giacometti (Partner), Antonio Tavella (Partner), Luca Andrea Frignani (Partner) - Number of partners: 70 - Number of lawyers: approximately 450 - Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Mandarin, Portuguese, Spanish ### Firm Overview Chiomenti is an independent law firm of approximately 450 professionals with offices in Rome, Milan, London, Brussels and New York. Over 75 years of activity, Chiomenti has developed an extensive network of international relationships and provides its clients with the services and advice of over 450 professionals whose experience and expertise cover multiple economic sectors and geographic areas.Chiomenti has structured its services and assistance in Practice Areas with a particular focus on transactions and matters of an extraordinary and special relevance for its clients, putting its independence and legal expertise at the disposal of companies and institutions, succeeding in innovating its leadership at the top of the legal services market. The assistance is carried out in full integration with the different professional areas in which the Firm is divided, in order to address and manage the various profiles of interest of the transactions with a multidisciplinary and integrated approach, focusing on collaboration, internationality and technological innovation as factors of acceleration of its leadership. ### TRANSACTIONS DEPARTMENT - Capital Markets - Public M&A - Debt Finance - Debt Capital Markets - Energy and Infrastructure - Equity Capital Markets - ESG Corporate Governance - Healthcare & Life Sciences - Private M&A - Real Estate - Private Equity - Private Equity - Venture & Growth Capital - Public M&A - Sport ### LITIGATION & ADVISORY DEPARTMENT - Civil Litigation - Commercial Litigation - Corporate Litigation - Data Protection and Cybersecurity - European Law & Antitrust - Finance & Financial Services Litigation - Financial Regulation - Intellectual Property - International Arbitration - Labour & Employment, comp. and litigation - Private Clients & Trust - Public Law, Regulatory & Authorities - Tax - White Collar crime & Investigation ### Languages - English - French - German - Italian - Mandarin - Portuguese - Spanish ### Staffing Figures - 0 Number of lawyers - 322 at this office
Office locations
Rome
Rome
Chiomenti Via Xxiv Maggio, 43 00187 Rome Rome Italy
Milan
Milan
Chiomenti Via Giuseppe Verdi 4 1-20121 Milan Milan Italy
Practice areas
Lawyers in this office
Alain Maria Dell\'Osso
Alain provides out-of-court advice to leading Italian and international clients on matters concerning criminal corporate law with a focus on banking and insurance. He has personally advised clients in proceedings concerning Criminal Tax Law, Criminal Bankruptcy Law and Criminal Labor Law. He regularly assists in connection with internal fraud and internal investigations. · White Collar Crime
Alessandra Prastaro
Alessandra’s practice focuses primarily on national and EU competition law (cartels, abuse of dominant position, mergers). She has also gained extensive experience in competition law compliance programs, unfair commercial practices, unfair competition, and abuse of economic dependence. Alessandra regularly advises leading national and international companies and financial institutions on complex matters. She is also involved in EU and national litigation before Italian civil and administrative courts as well as the European courts. · Competition / Antitrust
Alessandro Elisio
Alessandro has a wide-ranging expertise in the banking and finance sector and has experience in working in a range of sectors and industries, including financial services, real estate and energy and infrastructure. He has extensive experience in advising on leveraged and acquisition finance, real estate finance, project finance (energy) and debt restructuring in cross-border and domestic transactions, both in Italian law and English law transactions. · Banking & Finance
Alessandro Giacosa
Alessandro advises Italian and international clients on M&A transactions, with a particular focus on real estate. He has significant experience in structuring complex deals involving various asset classes and regularly assists institutional investors, asset managers, and developers. His practice includes advising on structured investments in single assets, real estate portfolios, and investment funds, as well as on a broad range of real estate-related contracts, including lease and construction agreements. · Corporate / M&A
Alessandro Portolano
Alessandro advises Italian and foreign financial institutions in relation to all areas of the banking, financial, insurance, payment services and asset management regulations. He advises banks, asset managers, and other financial institutions on regulatory issues concerning the structuring and execution of extraordinary and complex M&A and financial transactions. His experience includes ex novo charters and assistance in proceedings before Italian and European Regulators, regulatory enforcement matters, structuring of business models, and entry into new markets. He has assisted the Bank of Italy in relation to complex and innovative matters. · Banking & Finance
Alfredo Vitale
Alfredo regularly advises state-owned, private (listed and non-listed) companies, and governmental bodies and agencies in the public contracts sector, the urban and building sector, and in the environmental and renewable energy sector. · Administrative Law
Andrea Bernava
Andrea advises Italian and international clients in litigation, arbitration, bankruptcy law, corporate restructuring and M&A with a focus on national and international litigation concerning civil law matters (in arbitration and before ordinary judicial courts); national and international litigation on commercial law matters, with a specific focus on acquisition transactions and commercial contracts (in arbitration and before ordinary judicial courts); alternate dispute resolution; international commercial arbitration; insolvency and pre-insolvency procedures; financial restructuring and company law. · Litigation
Andrea Costa
Andrea advises Italian and international clients in pre-litigation and civil, commercial, and bankruptcy litigation before ordinary courts, including the Italian Supreme Court. He has also gained significant experience in national and international ad hoc and self-regulated arbitrations. He also provides out-of-court legal advice on civil and corporate law. · Litigation
Andrea Martino
Andrea advises Italian and international clients on finance matters with a focus on corporate finance, real estate financing, acquisition financing, project financing, cross-border financing, sureties and collaterals, settlement and restructuring of debts. In that context, he has advised banks, investors, debtors, arrangers and originators. · Banking & Finance
Anna Maria Perillo
Anna Maria focuses her activities on capital markets and structured finance. She has an extensive experience in securitisation transactions regarding various assets, including transactions relating to non performing exposures (also assisted by a State guarantee), covered bonds, project bonds and bond issues. Recently, she worked on the structuring of an innovative model of digital marketplace for trading of non-performing loans. She regularly advises primary Italian and international investment banks and financial corporations on legal and regulatory aspects. · Capital Markets
Annalisa Reale
Annalisa advices Italian and foreign clients in matters concerning Employment Law, social security (also in litigation) with a focus on Employment Law aspects of acquisitions, corporate restructuring and management of contracts for top managers of multinationals corporations, companies of the financial sector and other industries. In addition, she offers assistance in matters concerning remuneration policies and incentive plans, compliance programs, international mobility, audits and investigations, retention/non compete restrictions, corporate governance issues and ESG policies. Annalisa has also gained extensive experience in complex corporate restructuring processes, outsourcing, national and international reorganization plans, also with assistance in industrial relations and in the litigation. · Employment
Antonino Guida
Antonino regularly advises national and international clients on tax law matters with a focus on business tax, financial intermediary tax, extraordinary transactions, financial instruments, and international tax planning. He has gained significant experience in M&A, private equity, management incentive schemes, structured finance, financing operations, and securitisation. He also assists clients in settling tax disputes in the litigation and pre-litigation phases. Antonino also is a professor in accredited post-graduate courses. · Tax
Antonio Sascaro
Antonio assists Italian and foreign clients with corporate-M&A matters, particularly in connection with extraordinary transactions and issues relating to corporate law and business contracts, with a focus on transactions involving international private equity funds and strategic industrial investors, including listed companies or companies operating in supervised or regulated sectors. Joined the Firm in 1999 and has developed significant expertise in cross-border corporate and M&A transactions, both inbound and outbound on the Italian market, which require an integrated and multidisciplinary approach, primarily advising foreign clients or Italian groups with a multinational dimension. He has gained specific experience in relation to investments carried out by international private equity funds and major institutional investors. · Corporate / M&A
Antonio Tavella
Antonio advises Italian and international clients on corporate finance transactions, purchase of receivables, debt restructuring transactions, bankruptcy law and insolvency proceedings, acquisition of distressed assets, acquisition finance transactions, real estate and asset finance, and inventory finance. Within his practice, Antonio has gathered experience on corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, joint ventures, commercial contracts, corporate governance, capital increases and issuance of structured finance instruments. · Banking & Finance
Benedetto La Russa
Benedetto advises clients on banking, finance, structured finance, and debt capital markets. He regularly advises Italian and international banks, financial companies, and investment funds on matters concerning securitisation and asset finance for both performing and distressed assets. Since 2009, he has been advising clients on the main issuance programmes for structured covered notes in Italy. In the debt capital market sector, he has advised clients on hybrid, high yield, equity-linked, and exchangeable notes. · Banking & Finance
Carlo Croff
Carlo Croff advises Italian and international clients on Corporate - M&A, banking, insurance, regulated and unregulated entities and real estate matters, with a focus on corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, especially in the private equity industry. For 9 years, Carlo Croff has been Senior Partner of the Firm. · Corporate / M&A
Carola Antonini
Carola assists Italian and foreign clients in relation to the development and acquisition of projects in the energy and infrastructure sectors, with a particular focus on energy from renewable sources (wind power projects, biomass-powered projects—including waste—and biofuel projects, photovoltaic projects, geothermal projects, solar thermal projects, hydroelectric projects), energy from conventional sources (oil & gas), procurement and transport and distribution infrastructure for energy and gas, commercial contracts for the use of infrastructure, project finance in general, acquisition and leveraged finance, with a particular focus on green financing and ESG issues in general. · Energy & Infrastructure
Christopher Mullen
Christopher is an English Solicitor and advises Italian and international clients on Corporate - M&A matters with a focus on private equity, joint ventures, investments (venture capital, growth equity), commercial contracts and corporate law. He has extensive experience in capital markets including public offers and stock listing (including capital increases), public offers and listing of notes including convertible and equity-linked notes, as well as private placements with institutional investors including managers and employees. · Corporate / M&A
Cristoforo Osti
Cristoforo focuses on national and EU competition law (Antitrust). He assists many leading Italian and multinational companies in high-profile matters before the Italian Antitrust Authority and the European Commission. He conducts significant litigation before Italian civil and administrative courts and before the Court of Justice of the European Union on issues relating to competition law, unfair commercial practices and abuse of economic dependence. He has experience in the field of State aid and is regularly involved in the development and management of antitrust compliance and audit programmes. He is a professor of Business Law at the Law School of the University of Salento in Lecce; he was Unicredit Visiting Professor for European Legal Studies at Columbia School of Law in New York in 2015, where he taught a course on Global Competition Law and a seminar on the theories of competition law. · Competition / Antitrust
Davide D\'Affronto
Davide regularly advises Italian and international clients in debt transactions, including cross over/distressed. He has extensive experience in leverage & acquisition financing, as well as in real estate financing, representing banks, private equity, debt funds and corporates in senior financing and unitranche, subordinated and mezzanine transactions. · Banking & Finance
Edoardo Canetta Rossi Palermo
Edoardo is the Head of the London office and member of Chiomenti's Private Equity practice. He handles complex Italian and cross-border M&A and Private Equity transactions across a wide range of sectors, including fintech, media, technology, fashion, and construction. Edoardo regularly represents clients in the most complex and strategically significant transactions, with a particular focus on those requiring integrated and multidisciplinary expertise, primarily assisting foreign clients or Italian groups with a multinational presence. Edoardo is recognized as a Next Generation Partner for Private Equity by international legal directories. He is the author of numerous articles on mergers and acquisitions and corporate law matters. · Private Equity
Elena Busson
Elena provides legal assistance to industrial operators and private equity funds in M&A and other complex extraordinary transactions, with a focus on regulated sectors (energy&infrastructure). In particular, Elena is recognized by the international legal directories as M&A expert in these sectors, having worked on the most relevant extraordinary transactions in the gas, airport, telecom towers and transport sectors in Italy. Elena has, also, a remarkable experience in the energy field, having assisted funds and industrial operators in their investments in energy assets, both from renewables and traditional sources. · Corporate / M&A
Elisabetta Costanza Pavesi
Elisabetta practices tax law and tax planning in the context of national and international corporate restructuring, M&A transactions. She also focuses on tax planning for family estates and trusts. · Tax
Elisabetta Mentasti
Elisabetta provides out-of-court assistance to Italian and foreign clients in extraordinary corporate transactions (including mergers, acquisitions and corporate listing), with specific regard to the applicable administrative law provisions governing specific sectors. She has garnered particular experience in the energy sector (production, development, trading and retail market with respect to both conventional and renewable energy sources) and environmental protection, assisting leading national and international clients. The experience gained in the Real Estate sector has also been significant, in particular she has been involved in the divestment, public and private financing of the major national real estate portfolios. · Corporate / M&A
Emanuele Barberis
Emanuele advises Italian and international clients (in particular, in the luxury, fashion, infrastructure and transports, finance, banks and insurance institutions) in matters concerning employment and labour law with a focus on complex corporate transactions, corporate restructuring and reorganization plans and related industrial relations, in the management of labor contracts and all related labor law issues (employees, executives, sports workers, agents, consultants, attorneys) and with directors, in the implementation of compensation and retention policies, drafting of sophisticated confidentiality agreements, non-competition, reversal and protection of know-how, implementation of monetary articulated incentive plans and/or with financial/welfare instruments, drafting of smart-working plans and international secondments, outsourcing agreements and inherent to a supply chain, privacy and safety issues in the workplace, as well as providing judicial assistance, at all levels, in complex labor and social security litigation. · Employment & Labour
Ennio Alagia
Ennio represents in-court and advises out-of-court key Italian and non-Italian clients, both individuals and corporations, in all the major fields of white-collar and corporate crime, with a particular focus on market abuse, corporate frauds, bankruptcy frauds, tax crimes, as well as national and international corruption. Dual-qualified lawyer and chartered accountant, Ennio gained a solid professional experience having contributed in the assistance in several high-profile matters, both with national and transnational relevance, related to business and corporate crime. He likewise counsels on an ongoing basis relevant corporate entities and groups in drafting and updating the organizational and managerial models under Legislative Decree No. 231/2001, in giving legal advices and support to the Surveillance Committees, in structuring the anticorruption and the international sanctions compliance systems, and in conducting defensive or internal investigations. · White-Collar Crime
Ersilia Rita Maria Lazzara
Ersilia regularly advises Italian and international clients on matters concerning the processing of personal data, information technology, data breaches, and proceedings before judicial authorities and the Italian Personal Data Protection Authority. Ersilia also has experience in the development of privacy compliance and privacy auditing programmes. · Data Privacy & Protection
Federico Vanetti
Federico specializes in administrative law and focuses on environmental, urban planning and construction law. He provides legal assistance in connection with major urban regeneration and real estate development, as well as in real estate and real estate development transactions with a focus on Retail, receptive, student housing, residential, and logistics. Federico also deals with circular economy, waste management and remediation of contaminated sites. He also follows clients in the permitting phase of large industrial projects (including Data Centers, logistics, expansions of manufacturing plants, establishment of new strategic activities), following the authorization processes. Federico provides judicial assistance before TARs and The Council of State, also dealing with climate change litigation. · Administrative Law
Felice Azzollini
Felice advises clients on banking, insurance, and financial markets matters, under the different profiles of the relevant legal framework He advises on products and services distribution, contractual drafting, cross-border transactions and management of relations with the relevant supervisory authorities. His legal advice, offered to both Italian and international clients, includes the drafting of opinions and contracts, consultancy regarding corporate governance operations and business model restructuring, and the preparation of petitions and defense statements before legal and supervisory Authorities. · Banking & Finance
Filippo Brunetti
Filippo provides in-court and out-of-court advice to Italian and international clients on matters concerning public contract law in a broad sense (award and execution of contracts and concessions of works, services and supplies; project financing). Filippo has gained a wealth of experience in the main regulated sectors and in the financial market sector. In the energy sector, Filippo’s practice focuses on regulatory matters and on managing relationships with the relevant Authorities. He assists clients with implementing and managing energy infrastructure projects and with related administrative litigation. His practice also focuses on governmental agencies and state-owned along with their special regime. In the public services field, he also advises clients in the gas, waste, water, and transport services sector. He has gained a wealth of experience in the health and pharmaceutical sector, both by managing relationships with the National Healthcare System and by advising clients on regulatory matters and relevant industry-specific procurement matters. His practice also includes urban planning and environmental law as well as real estate transactions under public law (public funded real estate funds and divestments). · Administrative / Public Law
Filippo Modulo
Since 2002, Filippo Modulo assisted clients in more than 155 transactions for a value exceeding 312 billion Euro. Filippo advises Italian and international clients in complex extraordinary transactions with a focus on deals involving regulated entities and regulated sectors, as well as listed companies and private equity funds. Filippo has been a Partner since 2005 and Managing Partner since 2015. Filippo has developed an unparalleled know-how in managing major cross-border M&A transactions both inbound and outbound the Italian market, assisting purchasers, sellers, majority and minority shareholders, financing banks, financial advisors, and liaising with competent Authorities, entrepreneurs, boards of directors and leadership teams of different institutions, listed companies and private equity funds. · Corporate / M&A
Flavia Pagnanelli
Flavia provides legal advice to supervised entities operating in the banking, financial, and insurance sectors, both domestically and internationally, on regulatory matters, day-to-day operations, extraordinary transactions, organizational and corporate governance matters, sector-specific compliance, interactions with regulatory Authorities and sanctioning proceedings, investment transactions, product regulation, and prudential aspects. She regularly advises Italian and foreign collective asset managers and investors on structuring, marketing, and operations related to private equity, real estate, infrastructure, credit, and venture capital investment funds and other investment vehicles. · Banking & Finance
Francesca Villa
Francesca regularly advises Italian and international clients in relation to corporate and commercial law matters, with a focus on national and international private equity and M&A transactions (both private and public M&A). She has significant experience in contracts. · Corporate / M&A
Francesco D\'Alessandro
Francesco offers Italian and international clients out-of-court advice and in-court assistance in all major areas pertaining to white-collar offences with a focus on criminal corporate law, finance, bankruptcy, taxation and environmental issues, and as well as corporate criminal liability. As a lawyer entitled to practice before the Supreme Court since 2010, for over ten years Francesco has advised major companies operating in the banking and finance, environmental, energy, petrochemical, mass distribution, telecommunications, and construction industries. He has been involved in cases concerning crimes against property, public administration, and complex Italian and international proceedings involving bribery and corruption indictments. He has drafted and updated various organisational and management models under Legislative Decree No. 231/2001 while acting as Chairman of the Supervisory Body. · White-Collar Crime
Francesco Tedeschini
Francesco advises Italian and international clients on Corporate - Private M&A, Public M&A, public companies, banking, insurance and others regulated entities with a focus on complex transactions such as mergers, divisions, acquisitions, capital increases, joint ventures, takeover bids or exchange tender offerings and listed securities. · Corporate / M&A
Fraser Wood
Fraser advises Italian and international clients predominately on finance and capital markets transactions. · Banking & Finance
Giacomo Rojas Elgueta
Giacomo assists Italian and foreign clients in international and domestic arbitration proceedings with a particular focus on construction, international commercial contracts, Oil & Gas, renewables, corporate and post-M&A disputes. He has gained significant experience in investment arbitration, as well. He assists clients in all the steps and strategic decisions involved in an arbitration, from the drafting of the arbitration agreement to the recognition and enforcement of foreign awards, building his broad experience upon a deep knowledge of substantive law. He frequently acts as arbitrator in ad hoc and administered arbitrations, both domestic and international, with seat in different jurisdictions and under a wide variety of rules (including ICC, Milan Chamber of Arbitration, Swiss Arbitration Centre) and applicable laws. He has been appointed as expert by the Italian Republic in several investment arbitration proceedings under the rules of ICSID and SCC, and by multinational corporations before U.S. federal courts and the courts of England and Wales. He assists Italian and foreign clients on Private and Commercial Law matters before Italian State courts, and he is often requested to provide advice on international commercial contracts and to render legal opinions. · International Arbitration
Giada Caravello
Specialising in the banking and finance sector, legal advice to companies in financial distress, and debt restructuring, Giada advises Italian and international clients (including corporate groups, banks, and investment funds) on debt restructuring (both voluntary and court-mandated), structured finance (in the areas of acquisition finance and leveraged and corporate finance). Giada also advises Italian and international investors on the purchase of assets within insolvency proceedings. · Banking & Finance
Gian Gualberto Morgigni
Gian Gualberto advises Italian and international clients on tax law profiles of extraordinary transactions, family estate restructuring, and financial transactions. · Tax
Gianrico Giannesi
Gianrico regularly advises Italian and international banks, financial institutions, asset managers and investment funds on regulatory matters, securitization transactions and bond loans (including project bonds and minibonds). Gianrico has gained extensive experience in securitization transactions over different asset classes, including loans (non-performing and unlikely to pay), including where secured by state guarantees, and synthetic securitizations. He has also recently worked on the structuring of an innovative digital marketplace model for trading in portfolios of impaired loans. · Banking & Finance
Giorgio Cappelli
Giorgio advises Italian and international clients on financial and debt capital markets transactions with a focus on acquisition finance, real estate asset management, mutual investment funds, structured finance, securitisation of credits, including those arising from real estate transactions, guaranteed bank bonds, debt consolidation plans and restructuring, debenture loans, and Euro Medium Term Note programmes. · Banking & Finance
Girolamo D’Anna
Specialising in the banking and finance sector, and specifically, in project finance, Girolamo advises Italian and international clients (including corporate groups, banks, and investment funds) in the structuring, negotiation, and implementation of national and cross-border acquisition and project finance transactions. Girolamo also provides legal advice on financing and refinancing in real estate finance. · Banking & Finance
Giulia Battaglia
Giulia has over thirty years’ experience in this industry and specialises in structuring complex transactions. She advises debtors, banks, Italian and international investors on real estate financing, acquisitions, project finance and securitisation, factoring, debt restructuring transactions, bankruptcy law, insolvency proceedings and distressed assets purchase transactions. She has significant experience in debt restructuring in the shipbuilding and healthcare industries. Giulia’s practice also includes infrastructures and procurement with a particular focus on the energy sector. · Banking & Finance
Giulio Napolitano
Giulio advises Italian and international clients on Italian and European administrative law. His practice focuses on foreign direct investment screening, state-owned corporations’ organization and action, privatization transactions, public procurement, regulatory matters in the communication and energy sectors, renewable energy incentives, financial market supervision, competition and consumer protection and sports law. He is one of the twenty members of the International Council of Arbitration for Sport (2018-2022); member of the Committee of Experts and Market Operators of the Italian Financial Supervision Authority, Consob (2019-2024). He was a legal advisor to the Presidency of the Council of Ministers from 2006 to 2008 and Chairman of the Supervisory Board on equal access to the Telecom Italia network from 2009 to 2012. · Administrative Law
Giuseppe Andrea Giannantonio
Giuseppe Andrea advises Italian and international clients on tax law and tax planning matters with a focus on extraordinary transactions, M&A, private equity, international taxation, taxation of investment funds and financial products, real estate investment taxation and structuring, structured finance transactions, transactions involving real estate investment funds, Italian Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) and Fixed-Capital Investment Companies (SICAFs). He also advises clients on tax rulings, pre-litigation, and litigation including measures to avoid tax litigation with a focus on extraordinary transactions, real estate, and international investors. · Tax
Giuseppe Zorzi
Giuseppe advises national and international clients with a focus on company and group taxation, mergers and acquisitions, financing transactions, securitisation, and private equity. He has significant experience in litigation on matters concerning national, European Union, and international taxation and in procedures for settling tax disputes through tax assessment settlements, conciliation, amicable agreements, and arbitration procedures. He also assists in settling tax disputes in pre-litigation stages. · Tax
Gregorio Consoli
Gregorio assists Italian and international clients in extraordinary transactions with a particular focus on transactions involving financial entities and regulated sectors. Gregorio also advises banks, funds and asset managers on regulatory issues concerning the structuring and execution of financial transactions. · Banking & Finance
Guido Bellitti
Guido focuses on European Union law, with a particular focus on European and national competition law. The scope of his work also includes State aids, the EU Internal Market, public procurement and concessions, consumer law, as well as sectoral EU regulations relating inter alia to media, electronic communications, energy and transport, as well as EU international sanction regimes and EU regulation on sustainability. In these areas, Guido has advised several companies on European and national law issues, in particular in proceedings before the European Commission (on cartels, abuse of dominance, mergers) and the EU Courts (Court of First Instance and Court of Justice of the European Union), as well as before ordinary and administrative courts, and independent regulatory and supervisory authorities (in particular, the Italian Competition Authority and the Italian Communications Regulator). Guido has also a significant expertise in Foreign Subsidies Regulation, both on the merger and public procurement sides, having assisted several companies and international groups in the context of notifications to the European Commission. · Competition / Antitrust
Italo De Santis
Italo advises Italian and international clients on Corporate - M&A, capital markets, and real estate matters with a focus on: sale and purchase of shares, mergers and demergers, public takeover bids and public exchange offerings, IPO, capital increases, corporate governance, related-party transaction and public disclosure regulations, sale and purchase of real estate, companies and real estate portfolios, real estate asset management, real estate investment trusts and collective real estate investment funds. · Corporate / M&A
Katia Zulberti
Katia assists clients in administrative law and public economic law. She works, in particular, in the areas of land use planning, urban planning and construction, environmental, energy and infrastructure law. She has gained extensive experience in territorial and urban planning, assisting clients in real estate developments, rehabilitation and redevelopment of urban areas and brownfield sites. She deals with residential, tourist-hotel, tertiary and commercial developments, as well as health care facilities and the planning and implementation of logistics hubs. In the environmental field, she works in administrative procedures related to planning and implementation of projects (SEA, EIA, Vinca), environmental and landscape constraints and protected natural areas. In environmental law, she advises in procedures for the remediation and the implementation of safety measures of polluted sites, environmental authorizations for the exercise of productive activity (AIA and AUA), waste management, implementation of the Kyoto Protocol. She has gained significant experience in the energy sector, assisting economic operators in procedures for the location, construction and revamping of plants powered by traditional and renewable sources. · Administrative Law
Luca Andrea Frignani
Luca advises Italian and international clients on corporate and M&A matters, focusing on extraordinary transactions, company law, and commercial contracts. He specializes in deals involving strategic-industrial investors and private equity funds, including transactions concerning listed companies in regulated sectors. Head of the Private M&A Practice Area, member of the Firm's International Practice Group, and head of the London office from 2018 to 2024, Luca has developed extensive experience in cross-border M&A transactions—both inbound and outbound—assisting foreign clients and Italian groups with multinational operations. Luca has particular expertise in the manufacturing, aerospace, and defense sectors, as well as private equity investments. He also coordinates the firm's activities in the automotive sector. Luca is recognized as a leading lawyer in prominent international guides. He is a member of various committees and a conference co-chair of the International Bar Association. · Corporate / M&A
Luca Bonetti
Luca advises Italian and international clients on finance and real estate transactions with a particular focus on the structuring and negotiation of corporate acquisitions through bank borrowing or other alternative funding, structuring and negotiating real estate transactions, loans and facilities for companies and groups of companies; and creditor protection instruments. · Banking & Finance
Luca Cerciello
Luca regularly advises both Italian and international clients (including investment funds and other regulated entities, institutional investors, and developers) on a broad range of M&A and real estate transactions. His practice focuses on extraordinary capital transactions, joint ventures, investment reorganisations and development projects. He has also developed significant experience in the hospitality sector, where he advises on both acquisitions and management of hotel businesses. Luca is a member of the committee “Youth in the real estate” within Confindustria – Assoimmobiliare. · Corporate / M&A
Luca Ferrari
Luca provides assistance on complex disputes both in court and in arbitration, in the areas of banking and finance law -where he acts for financial institutions, particularly in disputes (including mass litigation and class actions) relating to loan structures, structured finance, involving allegations of mis-selling, misconduct, misrepresentation, deceit, fraud, breach of duty, contractual interpretation, breach of transactional documentation as well as on matters of enforcement, restitution and insolvency- as well as in the areas of insurance, commercial, corporate, tort, real estate and succession law. He has authored numerous publications in his areas of expertise. · Banking & Finance
Luca Fossati
He has advised Italian and international clients in the most significant Corporate - M&A transactions in the Italian market, particularly in the following sectors: media, telecommunications, luxury, design, gaming, real estate, sport, food and beverages, automotive, electronics, consumer, health care, metal and machinery, automation. Luca Fossati has been a Partner in charge of the executive function of the Firm and Head of the corporate department. He has been ranked as a leading lawyer in prominent legal international guides. · Corporate / M&A
Luca Liistro
Luca advises Italian and foreign clients on extraordinary transactions, corporate, commercial and contract law issues in various industries. Luca has also gained particular experience in the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry sectors and has completed some important buy and build processes in these sectors. He is responsible for the Practice Area ‘Healthcare & Life Sciences’ aimed at coordinating the Firm's various sectoral expertise relevant to these markets. · Corporate / M&A
Ludovica Cipolla
Since 2005 Ludovica is working in the banking and structured finance sectors advising leading Italian and international banks and investment funds acting as arrangers or originators. Developing a broad and solid experience in a wide range of banking and finance transactions, in the last years Ludovica focused on securitization transactions of performing mortgage residential and commercial receivables, trade receivables, public receivables and non performing receivables, with a particular emphasis on multi originators transactions and STS transactions (Simple, Transparent and Standardised Securitisations). · Banking & Finance
Luigi Arnaldo Cremona
Arnaldo regularly advises Italian and international clients on national and cross-border industrial M&A, private equity and real estate transactions, as well as on the drafting and negotiation of commercial contracts and on corporate law matters. · Corporate / M&A
Luigi Vaccaro
Luigi advises Italian and international clients on corporate - M&A, corporate restructuring, banking, insurance and other supervised entities matters. His practice particularly focuses on company law, mergers and acquisitions, private equity and joint ventures. Luigi belongs to the Firm’s Asia Desk and has garnered significant experience in advising Asian investors. · Corporate / M&A
Manfredi Vianini Tolomei
Manfredi advises Italian and international clients on matters concerning market regulation, public offerings, corporate law, finance, and public M&A in the finance and industry sectors. Manfredi’s practice focuses on public offerings and stock listings (including capital increases) public offerings and listing of notes, including convertible and equity-linked notes and private placements with institutional investors, managers and employees. · Equity Capital Markets
