Real estate and construction

Hall of Fame
The lawyers at the very top of the profession, widely known and respected by peers and clients for their longstanding involvement in market-leading work.
Alessandro Balp
Hall of fameBonelliErede
Partner, Alessandro Balp specialises in corporate law with particular focus on extraordinary M&A, private equity, real estate, mutual investment funds and sector regulations. He is Team Leader of the Real Estate Focus Team and member of the Luxury Focus Team.
Umberto Borzi
Hall of fameChiomenti
Umberto advises Italian and international clients (banks, funds, listed companies and other regulated entities) on Corporate law – M&A and real estate transactions with a particular focus on company law, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, joint venture, real estate acquisitions, asset management, real estate companies listings, and extraordinary capital transactions.
Luigi Croce
Hall of fameADVANT Nctm
Equity Partner. Luigi Croce specialises in Real Estate, and corporate M&A, which includes acquisitions, leasing, construction and development. Luigi advises to several players acting on the Italian real estate market in different asset classes, including Real Estate Funds, REEITS, developers (etc). He has been involved in a large number of domestic and cross-border transactions. Luigi’s clients include: Aereoporti di Roma, Aedes, Allianz, Amer Sports, Auchan, Axa REIM, Beni Stabili SIIQ, BNP Paribas, Brivio Vigano, Cab Log, Columbus Clinic Center, CDP Sgr, ENI, Finanziaria Internazionale, Fonciere LFPI, Fondazione ENPAM, Gallerie Commerciali Italia, Gallerie Cinisello, Gondrand, Dea Capital Sgr, INFI – Industriale Finanziaria, Metro Properties, Monrif Group, Morellato SpA, MP Filtri SpA, Nike, Nomisma, Percassi, San Pellegrino, Six Senses, Vailant. He is member of the Board at Nctm.
Federico Sutti
Hall of fameDentons
Federico Sutti is Chairman of Dentons’ Europe Board and Italy Managing Partner. Federico has extensive experience in M&A transactions, particularly in the real estate sector, advising Italian and international clients on the acquisition of assets and portfolios, as well as relevant, complex developments. These include, in particular, some of the most prominent development transactions in the residential/office/retail (Aree Falck) as well as in the logistic sectors (Piacenza). In addition, he has carried out various brownfield transactions advising international investors operating in the hotel and/or office sectors. Federico has also advised the lenders in the context of the most relevant development projects in Italy, including the Citylife and Varesine projects, among others. His experience extends to the PFI/PPP sectors, where he has been pioneering the use of project finance techniques in the Italian and international infrastructure markets, with specific reference to the healthcare sector. In particular, he assisted the Veneto Region for several years. In addition, he advised the Ministry of Infrastructures in Turkey in relation to the development of the PFI structure model for hospitals. During the last several years he has assisted leading banks, Italian companies and multinationals in various restructuring and refinancing matters. Among the largest the turnaround of Mezzaroma Group, as well as of Parnasi Group. In November 2014, under the Prodi Law, Federico was appointed Commissionaire of Infocontact (a company with 1,800 employees operating in Southern Italy) by the Ministry of Industry.
Claudio Cerabolini
Hall of fameClifford Chance
Olaf Schmidt
Hall of fameDLA Piper
Leading partners
The strongest partners in their field, leading on market-leading deals and endorsed by peers and clients alike.
Francesco De Blasio
Linklaters Studio Legale Associato
Francesco de Blasio joined Linklaters in September 2021  as Head of the Real Estate department in Italy. Francesco’s experience, gained over 20 years of activity in the Real Estate sector, varies from advising clients on the acquisition of complex property portfolios, directly or through investment structures such as real estate investment funds - to corporate joint ventures aimed at real estate developments. Francesco also focuses on the main commercial Real Estate contracts, with particular regard to specific categories of properties such as hotels, sports facilities and logistic facilities. He has also gained significant experience on real estate restructuring and NPLs transactions, advising major specialized investors.
Rocco Ferrari
Gatti Pavesi Bianchi Ludovici
Rocco specializes in real estate, focusing particularly on extraordinary sale and purchases of companies, individual assets and real estate portfolios (including sale and leaseback transactions) particularly with regard to retail, shopping centres, joint ventures, development operations and real estate contracts. He advises some of the most important international real estate investors, retailers, banks and asset management companies (which he assists in relation to the management of real estate investment funds).
Maria Sole Insinga
Dentons
Maria Sole Insinga is a partner in our Milan office and a member of the global Real Estate practice since the firm opened in Italy. Since the early 2000s, Maria Sole Insinga has been working in the real estate sector, providing assistance to leading Italian and international operators (asset management companies, investors, real estate funds, AIFM passports, credit funds and banks) in relation to a wide range of transactions, including acquisitions and disposals (assets and share deals), bid procedures, structuring of new investments in Italy, real estate portfolio reorganizations, redevelopment and development projects, repossessment and post-acquisition management of real estate portfolios. In particular, she has extensive experience in the office, retail and hotel sectors.
Patrizia Liguti
Chiomenti
Patrizia advises Italian and international clients on the analysis, structuring and execution of complex domestic and multi-jurisdictional transactions in the private equity, digital economy, fashion, design and real estate sectors. Patrizia has market-leading experience in mergers, de-mergers, reorganisations and disposals of large businesses, as well as leveraged buy-outs, management buy-outs, and venture capital-driven transactions. Patrizia also specialises in real estate M&A and development projects in the retail, office, logistics and hotel spaces, and in the formation of real estate investment funds and investment companies with fixed capital (SICAF).
Simone Monesi
Osborne Clarke
Simone has a comprehensive understanding of Urban Dynamics transformations, grounded in his long-standing experience in the real estate sector. His expertise spans multiple areas, including energy, infrastructure, and mergers & acquisitions. He is the Head of Italy's Urban Dynamics and The Built Environment teams. His legal experience is primarily rooted in mergers & acquisition with a particular focus on real estate and infrastructure. Simone provides highly specialised assistance and has a deep understanding of technical, regulatory, and financial issues relevant to energy, infrastructure and real estate projects. He assists long-term investors in all phases of the investment cycle, from the setting-up of the appropriate investment structures, establishment of joint ventures with co-investors, to the acquisition, development, management and sale of assets.
Fiorenza Resta
Pavia e Ansaldo
Partner Fiorenza has always focused her activity mainly on the Real Estate field assisting both Italian and foreign major investors in high value and juridically complex acquisition, leasing, development and divestment transactions (either as asset or shares deals). Her deep expertise and business oriented approach are much appreciated by her clients, which include some of the main players of the industry, both private and institutional entities, such as investment funds, pension funds, banks and developers investing in the whole range of asset classes on the market. She has been and still is a member of Boards of Directors of banks and investment management companies.
Federico Vanetti
Chiomenti
Federico specialises in environmental, urban planning and construction law, also handling administrative litigation before the Regional Administrative Courts and the Council of State in these matters. He also assists in real estate development transactions, with particular focus on environmental and urban planning issues, as well as authorisation and commercial aspects; he has also gained experience in the areas of climate change and the circular economy. Federico also assists manufacturing or construction companies in the ordinary management of administrative issues and administrative litigation, with particular focus on environmental issues.
Federico Barbàra
DLA Piper
Partner
Guido Alberto Inzaghi
BIP - Belvedere Inzaghi & Partners
Emanuela Molinaro
Simmons & Simmons
Marco Padovan
Studio Legale Padovan
Founder & Managing Partner
Next Generation Partners
Junior partners with significant recognition from clients and peers in the market and key roles on multiple matters.
Paolo Fedele
Chiomenti
Paolo advises Italian and international clients on Corporate - M&A and real estate matters with a focus on the sale and purchase of real estate, companies, real estate portfolios, real estate asset management, real estate collective investment fund transactions, lease agreements, procurements and business leases.
Carlo Merisio
Dentons
Carlo Merisio is a partner in our Milan office and a member of the global Real Estate practice. He assists clients, both Italian and international, in relation to major domestic and cross-border investments. His assistance covers the full spectrum of asset classes and deal structures, including asset and share deals, sale and lease-back, joint ventures, forward-funding structures as well as real estate investment funds schemes. Carlo also regularly advises clients on the negotiation of construction agreements, in the context of new development projects.
Sara Poetto
Dentons
Sara Poetto is a partner in our Milan office and a member of the global Real Estate practice. Sara has extensive experience in real estate law and regularly advises leading Italian and international operators in a wide range of transactions, including acquisitions and dismissals, both asset and share deals, redevelopment and development projects, repossession and post-acquisition management of real estate portfolios for various asset classes (including office, retail, logistics, hospitality and residential).
Guido Sagliaschi
Gatti Pavesi Bianchi Ludovici
Guido Sagliaschi advises on various types of extraordinary real estate transactions and commercial agreements (including leases, business rentals and contract works) as well as the management of litigation and pre-litigation proceedings. He assists both Italian and foreign real estate clients in matters concerning wholesale, shopping centres, business parks, office-use and entertainment purposes as well as advising asset management companies on transactions concerning real estate investment funds.
Elena Generini
DLA Piper
Silvia Gnocco
BIP - Belvedere Inzaghi & Partners
Ivana Magistrelli
BIP - Belvedere Inzaghi & Partners
Valentina Marengo
DLA Piper
Leading associates
Rising stars with regular involvement in their team's key work, and recognition from peers or clients as being ones to watch.
Francesco Calabria
Linklaters Studio Legale Associato
Francesco is a managing associate in the real estate practice group, based in Rome. He has been practising in the field of real estate since 2007. After a couple of years’ experience in the legal office of a public housing entity, he started his path in the private sector, where he specialized on all types of contracts relating to real estate investments, both in the field of investments/divestments and in the asset management’s advice.
Alessandro Giacosa
Chiomenti
Alessandro advises Italian and international clients, mainly on Corporate - M&A and real estate transactions, with a focus on sale and purchase agreements concerning single real estate properties, real estate property portfolios or real estate investment funds units, lease agreements and other commercial agreements relating to real estate assets.
Francesco Edoardo Ascione
DLA Piper
Angela Benincasa
Clifford Chance
Michele Bonomini
Studio Legale Padovan
Christian Turotti
Simmons & Simmons

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