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Franco regularly advises Italian and international clients in national and cross-border private equity transactions, industrial M&A and corporate finance. Franco is an expert in international contracts.
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Partner, Eliana Catalano specialises in corporate and M&A (both domestic and cross-border), private equity, joint ventures and commercial agreements. She has particular expertise on fashion, luxury and design goods, manufacturing, business services, sports and leisure, consumer goods sectors. She is Team Leader of the Private Equity Focus Team and member of the Digital Innovation Focus Team (strategic support) Focus Team. She is a Board member since 2021 and Managing Partner at the firm since 2024.
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Carlo advises Italian and international clients on Corporate - M&A, banking, insurance, regulated entities and real estate matters with a focus on corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity, supervisory regulations, internal compliance and governance, codes of conduct and prudential regulation, commercial contracts and extraordinary transactions of regulated entities, sale and purchase of real estate, companies and real estate portfolios, real estate asset management and real estate investment funds.
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Giorgio specialises in transactional work with a focus on cross-border public and private M&A, joint ventures, and private equity transactions. He regularly advises corporations in their national and cross-border M&A activity, and leading Italian and international private equity and credit funds in their downstream work and portfolio management. Since January 2017 Giorgio co-heads the global consumer sector of the firm and is dual qualified in Italy and in the UK.
Hall of famePedersoliGattai
Advising private equity funds and industrial groups on investments and divestments as well as on extraordinary transactions on regulated markets; setting up of investment funds and investment companies.
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Equity Partner. Paolo Montironi is one of the Founding Partners of Nctm and he dedicates his time to advising his clients; a focus he has never lost even when serving as managing partner for the firm. He has extensive expertise in all aspects of mergers & acquisitions, private equity and restructuring, including representing multinational companies in public and private mergers, acquisitions and divestitures; and working closely with private equity firms. He has been listed by Chambers Europe as a Leading Individual for M&A, and Private Equity and ranked as Top Tier 1 for Private Equity. He is consistently involved in major acquisitions and privatisations, both domestically and internationally. In particular, he has handled a large number of leveraged buyouts on behalf of Italian and foreign private equity firms, such as Oaktree Capital, Pillarstone (KKR), Bridgepoint Capital, Clessidra, Barclays Private Equity, Investcorp, Rhone Capital, L Capital and Opera Private Equity. Mr. Montironi has also managed many complex restructuring activities such as Maire Technimont, Navigazione Montanari, Premuda, Limoni e La Gardenia, Nectar. He is Senior Partner and member of the Board at Nctm.
Hall of fameGatti Pavesi Bianchi Ludovici
Carlo Pavesi’s practice focuses on corporate law, domestic and cross-border merger and acquisitions, and private equity transactions. He has handled several of the largest Italian M&A deals of the recent years, and is considered as one of the leading lawyers for M&A transactions involving financial and banking institutions. Carlo Pavesi has represented Italian and international private equity funds in a wide range of M&A transactions. He advises on capital market transactions (including IPOs and equity offerings), and corporate governance matters. He is also active in high-profile corporate litigation and arbitration.
Stefano Sciolla
Hall of fameLatham & Watkins LLPStefano Sciolla is the Managing Partner of Latham & Watkins' Milan office. He is a member of the firm's Aerospace, Defense & Government Services Industry Group core team.
He primarily handles corporate law matters, and he has considerable experience advising clients on:
Mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and private equity deals
Divestitures
Strategic commercial contracts
Corporate governance and public company representation
Capital markets transactions
He regularly advises Italian and international clients in cross-border corporate transactions. He also has considerable experience in the aerospace and defense business, as well as in the energy sector.
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Partner, Giulia Bianchi Frangipane specialises in corporate law with particular expertise in M&A and extraordinary financial transactions, venture capital and growth equity, private equity, capital markets, commercial contracts, turnaround, company reorganisation and insolvency proceedings in retail, energy, financial services, telecommunications, transport, insurance and brokerage sectors. She is a member of the Digital Innovation, Family Businesses & SMEs and Private Equity Focus Teams. She is a former Board member (2021-2023).
Chiomenti
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.
Hall of famePedersoliGattai
Advice to private equity houses and industrial corporations (including listed) on extraordinary transactions such as M&A, financing and minority investments. Assistance to international clients in relation to corporate and commercial joint ventures in a range of sectors, including aviation and aerospace, advising on all financial and antitrust aspects.
Ascanio received his Law Degree (J.D.) from Università degli Studi di Torino in 1993 and attended a Postgraduate Course on International Trade Law at Istituto Universitario degli Studi di Torino in 1995; he joined the Milan Bar Association in 1998.
Dentons
Alessandro Dubini is a partner in Dentons Milan office and co-head of the Corporate M&A practice in Italy.
He mainly advises major industry groups, leading financial institutions and private equity funds on both domestic and international extraordinary transactions regarding mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and corporate reorganization.
He also gained considerable experience in IPOs, tender offers, corporate and commercial law, banking and finance, as well as on corporate governance matters and commercial contracts.
Gatti Pavesi Bianchi Ludovici
Gianni Martoglia is a skilled practitioner in the fields of financial markets and mergers and acquisitions, and he is particularly specialized in private equity. Recently he has directed some of Gatti Pavesi Bianchi's most significant and complex M&A transactions, assisting various Italian and foreign corporations and financial institutions. He has also written several articles on corporate law and securities which have appeared in some of the most important Italian publications. Furthermore, he was the co-author of the book “Tecniche di Private Equity”.
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Partner, Umberto Nicodano specialises in corporate governance, M&A (public and private) with particular focus on the private equity, luxury, automotive, insurance, banking and manufacturing of industrial products and machinery sectors. He is member of the Private Equity, Private Clients and the Digital Innovation (strategic support) Focus Teams.
Chiomenti
Massimiliano represents domestic and international clients in matters of private and public M&A with a focus on private equity funds, strategic investments and joint ventures.
His experience spans across multiple industries, having represented institutional clients in a variety of deals in many different sectors, including energy, infrastructures, luxury, insurance, mechanical engineering and food & beverage. Massimiliano also has a rather unique track record in the real estate and hotel sectors.
PedersoliGattai
Carlo Re is an Equity Partner acting in the Corporate and Commercial, Mergers & Acquisitions, Capital Markets departments, and is based in the Turin office.
His area of expertise comprises corporate commercial and mergers & acquisitions, advising major industrial players and leading private equity funds in relation to sophisticated M&A transactions, commercial agreements and capital markets transactions, with a particular focus on the automotive, editorial (media) and financial services sectors.
Chiomenti
Antonio advises Italian and international clients on national and cross-border corporate - M&A transactions with a focus on corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, joint ventures and real estate.
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Equity Partner. His practice focuses on M&A and private equity. He has extensive experience in corporate and commercial law. He advises domestic and foreign private equity firms such as Chequers, LBO France, Arcadia, DeA Capital Alternative Funds, Investcorp; infrastructure funds such as Infracapital and 3i; as well as industrial clients such as AB InBev, Lottomatica, Lastminute.com and Gruppo Feltrinelli.
Chiomenti
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.
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Equity Partner. Pietro Zanoni’s practice focuses on M&A and private equity, and he has extensive experience in all matters of corporate and commercial law, especially in the pharmaceutical, medical, food and fashion industries. He has been advising domestic and foreign private equity firms such as 21 Investimenti, Alcedo, Clessidra, Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners, Fondo Italiano di Investimento (now NeubergerBerman), Friulia Veneto Sviluppo, Gradiente, G Square, DeA Capital, Investcorp, Jacobs Holding, L Catterton (formerly L Capital), Palladio and TowerBrook; as well as industrial clients such as Aboca, Cartotecnica Goldprint, Guala Pack, Mar.Ter, IBM, LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, Mediolanum Farmaceutici, Megadyne, Marsh, MSC and Turbocoating.
Gianluca Ghersini
Gianni & OrigoniGuido Testa
Orrick, Herrington & SutcliffeAndrea Accornero
Simmons & SimmonsAndrea specialises in private equity and M&A. Andrea has extensive experience of private equity transactions for both Italian and international funds. He has advised some of the most respected and recognised players on a continuous basis on their acquisitions, disposals and refinancings.
Roberto Bonsignore
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & HamiltonClaudio Cerabolini
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Chiomenti
Edoardo focuses on complex Italian and cross-border M&A transactions, advising clients on private equity and venture capital deals, leveraged buyouts, divestitures and joint ventures involving a broad range of sectors, including fintech, media, technology, fashion and construction sectors. He also works closely with boards and senior management on their most complex and strategically significant transactions.
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Lucia Corradi mainly deals with Corporate and Commercial Law, especially in M&A and Private Equity.
She assists on a regular basis Italian and foreign investment funds, and national and multinational industrial operators in the organization and negotiation of extraordinary transactions (sales and contributions in kind of equity interests and businesses, mergers, demergers, transformations, capital increases, issuance of bonds and financial instruments).
Lucia provides also legal advice on corporate governance to listed and unlisted companies, drafting by-laws, shareholders agreements, option agreements, directorship agreements, and share-based incentive plans for employees and directors.
BonelliErede
Partner, Augusto Praloran specialises in corporate law, M&A and business contracts in particular in the luxury, food and manufacturing sectors. He is a member of the Private Equity Focus Team and the Infrastructure, Energy & Ecological Transition Focus Team.
PedersoliGattai
Assisting private equity funds, financial institutions and industrial groups in relation to domestic and cross-border M&A transactions. Commercial agreements.
Giancarlo D’Ambrosio
Latham & Watkins LLPGiancarlo D’Ambrosio is a partner in the Milan office of Latham & Watkins. He primarily advises clients on corporate, M&A, private equity, capital markets, and financial transactions.
Mr. D'Ambrosio represents private equity funds and their portfolio companies, publicly traded and privately held companies, as well as financial institutions on:
Mergers and acquisitions
Joint ventures
Investments
Divestitures
Strategic structured finance transactions
Corporate governance and public company representation
Capital markets transactions (primary and secondary offerings, listings, bond issues, and liability management transactions)
His experience spans a broad range of industries, including sports, fashion, entertainment, and media.
Mr. D’Ambrosio serves on the firm’s local Recruiting Committee.
Giorgia Lugli
Latham & Watkins LLPGiorgia Lugli advises multinational private equity firms, financial institutions, and companies doing business in Italy on a range of investments, M&A transactions, and restructurings.
Drawing on her experience in complex, cross-border transactions, Ms. Lugli delivers pragmatic and creative counsel to international and Italian clients. She regularly navigates multifaceted transactions in tight timeframes by effectively managing multiple work streams and collaborating closely with clients’ legal counsel.
An accomplished private equity practitioner, Ms. Lugli counsels clients throughout every stage of the investment lifecycle — from negotiating investment agreements to assisting clients on corporate governance matters to executing sales. She fosters strong relationships with stakeholders from target companies across diverse industries to help ensure efficient deal closings. Ms. Lugli brings particular experience in cross-border transactions involving companies in highly regulated sectors.
Ms. Lugli’s practice work also includes joint ventures, corporate reorganizations, and acquisitions of insolvent companies.
Gabriele Ramponi
Gianni & OrigoniGianpaolo Scandone
Portolano CavalloAlessandro Vittoria
Orrick, Herrington & SutcliffeFilippo Isacco
Clifford ChancePaolo Nastasi
A&O ShearmanDavid Singer
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & HamiltonLeading associates
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Chiomenti
Giovanni regularly advises Italian and international clients on capital markets, M&A, and national and cross-border corporate finance.
PedersoliGattai
She is a Counsel in the Corporate M&A and Private Equity Departments.
She focuses her activity on corporate assistance to Italian and foreign companies and private equity funds in Italian and cross border extraordinary transactions.
BonelliErede
Senior Associate, Francesca Ricceri specialises in M&A, private equity and commercial agreements.
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