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.
Partner, Marco Arato specialises in restructuring and insolvency with particular focus on transfer of equity stakes and companies, extraordinary financial operations, debt restructuring, capital increases, mergers and demergers and company takeovers, providing assistance to directors, banks and debtor companies. He is Team Leader of the Restructuring & Insolvency Focus Team. He is also member of the Banks and Shipping, Transport & Logistics Focus Teams.
Partner, Giuseppe Lombardi specialises in litigation and arbitration with particular focus on corporate, banking and insolvency as well as non-contentious matters such as M&A, corporate finance, debt restructuring and corporate reorganisation, especially for cases involving generational changeovers. He is member of the Banks, Corporate Governance, Restructuring & Insolvency and Private Clients Focus Teams. He is also member of the Competition Litigation Task Force.
Advising banks, financial institutions, private equity houses and industrial groups in relation to acquisition finance, debt restructuring, corporate finance and real estate finance transactions.
Rising stars
Rising stars with regular involvement in their team's key work, and recognition from peers or clients as being ones to watch.
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.
Next Generation Partners
Junior partners with significant recognition from clients and peers in the market and key roles on multiple matters.
Ettore has extensive experience in corporate and structured lending, acquisition and real estate finance, restructuring and turnaround procedures, debtor-in-possession financing and acquisition/disposal of UTP/NPL portfolios and single names, both in the Italian market and in cross-border transactions.
Leading individuals
The strongest partners in their field, leading on market-leading deals and endorsed by peers and clients alike.
Francesco Faldi is a partner in the Banking and Finance department in Linklaters' office in Milan, where he leads the Restructuring and Insolvency department. Francesco specializes in banking and finance law, bankruptcy law and debt restructuring. As head of the firm’s Italian Restructuring & Insolvency practice, Francesco advises on major restructuring and insolvency deals, focusing on non-performing loans (NPLs), including securitisation and sales of NPL portfolios. He was closely involved in structuring the first two schemes of arrangement of Italian companies. Francesco also has prowess in real estate finance, working in collaboration with the firm’s real estate practice, as well as experience in leveraged finance and general banking transactions.
Luca mainly deals with the assistance in connection with financing and debt-restructuring transactions. He has gained a significant experience in the litigation practice and in the consulting activity with respect to securities, mainly derivatives, by advising leading financial institutions.
Broad experience in insolvency proceedings, corporate crisis and reorganizations, compositions (both in-court and out-of-court), liabilities and claw-back actions. Advising commissioners and official receivers on asset divestitures, on corporate acquisitions and leases through public competitive tenders and on procedures for contentious sentences.
Equity Partner. Fabio Marelli combines a steady professional activity and experience in complex restructurings with an academic role, being a Professor of Bankruptcy Law at the University of Pavia and author of several publications on insolvency matters. He has extensive experience in advising domestic and international clients in bankruptcy litigations as well as restructuring processes. In addition to Restructuring and Turnaround, he specializes in Dispute Resolution and Arbitration.
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.
Cristian Fischetti is a partner in our Milan office and Head of the Italian Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy practice. Cristian assists clients dealing with complex distressed situations and debt restructuring processes, including turnaround and special situations investments, corporate reorganization plans, debt restructuring agreements, compositions of debts with creditors (in/out of court), M&A and financing of distressed target companies. He specializes in bankruptcy law and corporate restructuring, with a focus on debt restructuring agreements pursuant to art. 182-bis of the Italian Bankruptcy Law (“accordi di ristrutturazione dei debiti” - now art. 57 of the new Italian Insolvency Code), recovery plans pursuant to art. 67, co. 3, lett. d) of the Italian Bankruptcy Law (“piani attestati di risanamento” - now art. 56 of the new Italian Insolvency Code) and compositions of debts with creditors (“concordati preventivi”), both dismissive and with going concern. He also assists clients in bankruptcy proceedings and investors (as non-performing loan companies and turnaround funds) in bankruptcy agreements (“concordati fallimentari”). In addition, Cristian has extensive experience in corporate and commercial law. He also deals with the purchase and assignment of UTP/ NPL receivables, both portfolios and single name exposures. Cristian is enrolled in the List of Experts for the negotiated settlement of company crises pursuant to art 3, par. 3, of Law Decree no. 118/2021, amended by Law no. 147/2021, and subsequent amendments and additions, kept by the Chamber of Commerce of Milan, Monza Brianza and Lodi.
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.
