Chiomenti

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.

Alessandra Prastaro

Alessandra specialises in national and EU competition law (collusion, abuse of dominant position). She has experience in competition law enforcement programmes, state aid, unfair commercial practices, unfair competition, and abuse of economic dependence. Alessandra regularly advises leading national and international companies and financial institutions on complex legal matters. She is involved in EU and national level litigation before Italian civil and administrative courts, and European courts.

Alessandro Giacosa

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Anna assists and advises Italian and international clients on industrial and intellectual property law in all of its aspects, such as trademarks and other distinctive signs, patents, design, copyright and related rights, unfair competition, information technology, know-how and trade secrets, misleading and comparative advertising, geographical indications and designations of origin. During her professional career, she has gained a wealth of experience in various sectors, dealing with a wide range of complex matters at national and international level and providing judicial and extrajudicial assistance, including coordination and management of complex cross-border proceedings and the negotiation of agreements.

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.

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.

Antonio Sascaro

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.

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.

Benedetto La Russa

Benedetto La Russa 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.

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.

Carola Antonini

Carola advises Italian and international clients in project development and acquisition in the energy and infrastructure fields, with a focus on renewable energy (wind, biomass -including WtE-, biofuel, photovoltaic, geothermal, solar heat, hydroelectric), energy from conventional sources (oil and gas), infrastructure and public tenders on energy and gas transport and distribution, infrastructure concessions and contracts, acquisition, and leveraged finance, with a particular focus on green financing and general ESG issues.

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.

Cristoforo Osti

Cristoforo focuses on EU and Italian Competition (Antitrust) Law. He advises many leading Italian and multinational corporations in high-profile matters before the Italian Competition Authority and the European Commission. He conducts a significant amount of disputes before civil and administrative courts and before the Court of Justice of the European Union on issues related to competition law, unfair business 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 auditing programs. 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Federico Amoroso

Federico’s practice focuses on financial markets. He advises leading corporate clients and banks on national and international deals involving equity capital market transactions (i.e., IPOs, share capital increases, institutional placements, treasury share buy-back programmes) and debt capital markets transactions (i.e., bond issuances of convertible financial instruments and hybrids issuances, as well as “liability management” transactions), as well as corporate finance and public M&A (i.e., public purchase bids and public exchange offers).

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.

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.

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).

He 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. He has been appointed together with Gregorio Consoli as Managing Partner for the three-year period 2021-2023. 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. Since 2002, Filippo Modulo assisted clients in more than 140 transactions for a value exceeding 280 billion Euro.

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.

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.

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.

Francesco Ago advises Italian and international clients on matters concerning finance, financing, capital markets, bankruptcy law, and corporate restructuring with a focus on structured finance, securitisation, guaranteed bank bonds, acquisition finance, real estate finance, export finance, leasing and asset finance, public offers and stock listing (including capital increases, public offers and listing of convertible and equity-linked debt notes), private placements to institutional investors (including managers and employees), insolvency and pre-insolvency proceedings, and financial restructuring.

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.

Fraser advises Italian and international clients predominately on finance and capital markets transactions.

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. State and federal courts. 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.

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.

Gian Gualberto Morgigni

Gian Gualberto advises Italian and international clients on tax law profiles of extraordinary transactions, family estate restructuring, and financial transactions.

Gianluca D'Agnolo

Gianluca advises Italian and international clients on Corporate - M&A, TMT, intellectual property, and information technology matters with a focus on corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, commercial contracts, intellectual property and media.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Guido mainly deals with EU Law, with a specific focus on EU and national competition law. His practice includes State aids, Foreign Subsidies, Internal Market, public procurement and concessions, environmental and consumer law, as well as EU sectorial regulations concerning inter alia media, electronic communications, energy and transport, as well as EU international sanctions regime. In the aforementioned sectors, Guido advised several companies on EU and national matters, also representing them in connection with proceedings before the EU Commission (regarding cartels, abuse of dominance and merger control), in judicial proceedings before the Court of Justice and the General Court of the EU, as well as - at the national level - before ordinary and administrative courts and the independent regulatory authorities (namely Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato, Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni).

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.

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.

Luca regularly advises Italian and international clients (including funds and other regulated entities, institutional investors, and developers) on wide range of M&A and real estate transactions, with a particular focus on extraordinary capital transactions, investment reorganisations, development projects, constructions and asset management. Luca also has gained significant experience in the hospitality sector and in cross-border transactions in infrastructure and energy industries.

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.

Luca 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.

Luca advises Italian and international clients on extraordinary transactions on commercial law and contracts matters with a focus on assisting entrepreneurs and multinational companies operating in various industrial sectors. Luca has gained a wealth of experience in real estate law sectors that have specific features such as hotels, and “trophy assets”. He is also one of the coordinators of the pharma, healthcare and life sciences practices of the Firm.

Luca regularly advises Italian and international clients on complex disputes both in court and arbitration proceedings, domestic and international, with focus on commercial contracts, banking and finance dispute resolution, M&A litigation, management, planning and deployment of family wealth, private enforcement, and assisting defendant companies in class actions. Luca has gained a significant experience in product safety and product liability, advising and assisting Italian and international clients in every aspect (including litigation) concerning product liability.

Luca Andrea Frignani

Luca assists Italian and foreign clients with corporate-M&A matters, and in particular with extraordinary transactions and matters relating to company law and business contracts, with a focus on deals involving strategic-industrial investors and private equity funds, and also in relation to listed companies operating in supervised or regulated sectors. Co-Head of the Private M&A Practice Area, member of the International Practice Area, and head of the London office from 2018 to 2024, Luca has, in particular, developed a solid experience in cross-border corporate and M&A transactions, both inbound and outbound on the Italian market, which require an integrated and multidisciplinary expertise, assisting mainly foreign clients or Italian groups with a multinational dimension. Luca has gained a specific experience for manufacturing, aerospace, and defence businesses, and more generally in relation to investments made by private equity players. He is also one of the coordinators of the firm’s activities in the automotive sector.

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).

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.

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.

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.

Manuela Cerulli

Manuela Cerulli regularly advises Italian and international clients on M&A, energy and real estate transactions. Manuela has extensive experience in the drafting of commercial contracts in several industries including energy (both conventional and renewable energy sources) and real estate (with a particular focus on hotels and nursing homes). Manuela has extensive experience in the development of solar and wind farms, including in the drafting and negotiation of Development Agreements, EPC and O&M Agreements.

Marco Cerritelli

Marco regularly assists Italian and foreign clients to develop, carry out and finance (including according to the LMA standards and through the issue of securities) investments in infrastructure. Marco has gained significant experience in the main regulated sectors, mainly focusing on the areas of transport, health and sport related assets. In this context, he dealt with several market first and pathfinders. His assistance also includes the interventions made both on the primary and secondary market by infrastructure funds. Marco specialises in project finance transactions and private public partnership (PPP).

Marco advises Italian and international clients on corporate - M&A, real estate, and energy matters with a focus on corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and commercial contracts. Head of the Asia Desk in the Italian office, Marco worked at the Hong Kong office for four years (2010-2014) where his practice focused on advising Asian investors on outbound investments from Asia to Italy.

Marco advises Italian and international clients on Corporate - M&A, capital markets and compliance matters with a focus on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, capital increases, budget and accounting regulations, public purchase bidding and public exchange offerings, disclosure obligations of listed companies, commercial contracts and other extraordinary transactions of regulated entities. His experience spans various industries including banks, insurance and other regulated entities.

Marco advises Italian and international clients on tax law and tax planning matters with a focus on extraordinary corporate transactions, M&A, private equity, international taxation and transfer pricing, tax litigation, restructuring of family assets, trust, and inheritance planning.

Marco has assisted large multinational companies in complex competition law matters, proceedings and litigation before European and national competition authorities, in European courts and in Italian civil and administrative courts. He also deals with European and Italian regulation of telecommunications, energy and media.

Marco Paruzzolo

Marco regularly advises Italian and international clients on banking law and structured finance. In banking, he has advised a wealth of sponsors, borrowers, lenders, in several corporate finance, acquisition and leveraged finance, real estate finance, and project finance transactions. In structured finance, he has advised investors and arrangers in transactions including securitisation, credit transfers, issuing high yield bonds, private placements, as well as in the structuring and modification of EMTN programs and issuance of minibonds. He has also advised clients on restructuring, regulatory matters, and compliance related to banking and finance.

Maria Carmela Falcone

Maria Carmela advises Italian and international clients on extraordinary transactions related to capital markets and corporate finance including takeover bids, IPOs, capital increases, block trades, and bond issuances. She also advises leading listed Italian companies on corporate governance matters.

Marilena Hyeraci

Marilena has 20 years' experience in strategic legal advice in the fields of personal data protection, cybersecurity and new technology law. She also has experience in general compliance, risk mapping and organisational models pursuant to Legislative Decree no. 231/2001, whistleblowing, judicial proceedings and internal investigations, also in cross-border contexts. Marilena assists international groups and leading Italian companies in the definition of data governance plans, compliance with privacy and cybersecurity regulations, including the GDPR and the AI Act, the NIS2 Directive and the Dora Regulation. He assists in the analysis and management of IT incidents, supporting clients in legal proceedings, interactions and disclosures to the Authorities, as well as in the definition of information flows, risk analysis and strategic assessments on possible disclosures to stakeholders and interested parties. Marilena has also assisted in proceedings pursuant to Legislative Decree no. 231/2001, focusing on computer crimes, fraud and corruption, both domestic and international, with implications in multiple jurisdictions.

Mario Roli advises industrial operators and funds in acquisition transactions and, more generally, in complex extraordinary transactions, mainly in regulated sectors (energy, networks and infrastructure). In particular, Mario is recognized by leading international legal guides as one of the leading lawyers in the country for assisting infrastructure funds and pension funds in the acquisition of companies, including listed ones, operating in the energy, transportation, and telecommunications sectors. He is also active in the utilities sector, having worked on some of the most important utility aggregation transactions carried out in Italy.

Massimiliano Nitti

Massimiliano is considered as a trusted advisor by many of the corporate and PE clients that he regularly advises for various strategic matters of corporate finance regarding both listed and privately-held companies. As an M&A specialist, he has represented institutional clients in a variety of deals in various industrial sectors. Over the years, he also has gained an impressive experience in complex corporate and post-M&A litigation and arbitration proceedings both in Italy and abroad.

Massimo assists Italian and foreign clients in handling civil, commercial, corporate, banking and insurance litigation, both before ordinary courts and in arbitration proceedings, as well as in drafting and conclusion of contracts. Massimo has gained significant experience in arbitrary proceedings and is regularly appointed in ad hoc and administered arbitrations. He appears on the list of arbitrators of the Arbitration Chamber for Public Contracts at ANAC and the Arbitration and Conciliation Chamber of Cooperation. Upon appointment by the Bank of Italy, he was a member of the Arbitro Bancario Finanziario (ABF), College of Rome (2019-2024). He is a member of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS, since 2023) and the CONI Sports Agents Commission (since 2020). He is a legal expert supporting the functions assigned to the Minister for Sport and Youth (since 2023).

Massimo Antonini

Massimo advises Italian and international clients on tax law, with a particular focus on corporate transactions, M&A, private equity, international taxation, transfer pricing, tax litigation, private wealth management, trusts and estate planning.

Nicholas Lasagna

Nicholas’ practice has a particular focus on leveraged finance, acquisition finance (both sponsor-driven and corporate), syndicated loans, bond private placements, project bonds, debt restructurings and real estate finance matters. Nicholas is a partner in our Financial Markets group within the Banking team in Milan. He advises clients on a broad range of bank finance and capital markets transactions. He has a significant track record representing domestic and international arrangers and lenders, sponsors and borrowers in high profile transactions within the Italian market. Clients also benefit from Nicholas' proven ability to take a lead role in complex, multi-jurisdictional deals combining loans and bonds in the context of corporate and sponsor-driven acquisitions.

Paolo Giacometti

Paolo advises Italian and international clients on tax law and tax planning matters with a focus on extraordinary corporate transactions, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, international taxation; transfer pricing, taxation of investment funds and financial products. In addition, he assists individuals, families, and family offices with family wealth restructuring, trusts, and estate planning. Paolo worked at Chiomenti’s New York office from 2003 to 2006 and assisted a wealth of US multinational companies, private equity funds, and financial institutions on matters concerning tax planning and investment in Italy.

Paolo advises Italian and international clients on intellectual property and information technology matters with a particular focus on cross-border profiles of such matters and patent disputes. He advises clients on patents, registered trademarks, copyright and related rights, design and models, know-how and confidential information, unfair competition, advertising and communication law and data protection. He has over 20 years’ experience in intellectual property and information technology garnered as a member and head of major Italian and international law firms. Such experience brought him to face complex transactional and litigation issues in a wide variety of business sectors, with a steadily high amount of mandates in the fashion, automotive, design and furniture, food and hospitality, banking and financial institutions and healthcare fields.

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.

Patrick Actis Perinetto

Patrick advises leading Italian and multinational companies on European Union Law, national and European competition law and on various matters before the Italian Competition Authority and the European Commission including: vertical agreements, horizontal agreements and concerted practices, abuse of dominant position, and fundamental freedoms. Patrick frequently advises companies in the pharmaceutical sector and has gained profound knowledge of the industry’s characteristics and competitive dynamics. Over the years, he has advised various companies operating in the telecommunications and media sectors. In his practice he has often participated in the development and execution of antitrust compliance and audit programmes. Thanks to a deep understanding of Administrative Law, Patrick advises his clients on matters concerning regulatory law, litigation, competition law, and European Union law before the administrative and civil courts.

Patrizia Liguti

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).

Pierluigi Perri

Pierluigi supports clients in structuring data governance plans, which take the form of contracts, the definition of regulations and audit plans, and in the context of corporate transactions. He has assisted companies and multinationals in the transition to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the definition of corporate data strategy, working with leading firms. He is a lawyer admitted to the Italian Supreme Court and has experience as a data protection officer and as chair and member of supervisory bodies. He is an expert for EuroJust on data protection in judicial cooperation and the European Data Protection Board for the areas of "Technical expertise in new technologies and information security" and "Legal expertise in new technologies."

Pina specializes in administrative law, both in and out of court assistance, with particular reference to the legal-regulatory context relating to the exercise of administrative action, environment and energy, urban planning and construction, public contracts (including PPP) and administrative sanctions. She developed highly qualified expertise in providing legal assistance in the context of authorization procedures relating to plants for the production of electricity from renewable resources and gained solid experience in acquisitions, financing and refinancing of renewable and traditional power plants, providing assistance to banks (national and international), institutional investors, investment funds/private equity funds (national and international) and other companies involved in energy production, grid infrastructures and gas. Pina is recognised as a professional with excellent knowledge of the energy sector by the international legal guide Chambers.

Raffaele is an expert on international taxation and on international and domestic tax policy. He has more than 20 years of experience, having worked with the IBFD in Amsterdam, the OECD in Paris and the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance in Rome. At the OECD, he worked on double tax treaties and on transfer pricing. He played a key role in launching and delivering groundbreaking projects like the OECD work on tax and crimes and the work on aggressive tax planning, which later became the OECD/G20 BEPS Project, which he led until the delivery of the first phase of the Project in 2015. During his service at the Italian Ministry of economy and finance, he focused on reforming the tax administration and on the digitalization of invoices and receipts. He was then appointed Deputy Chief of Cabinet in charge of taxation and of digitalization from early 2020 to March 2021. He lectures in leading universities around the world and speaks frequently at conferences and seminars. He has published more than 100 articles in Italian and foreign journals.

Raul-Angelo Papotti

Raul-Angelo advises Italian and international clients on tax law and tax planning, cross-border taxation and transfer pricing, M&A transactions, private wealth management, trusts and estate planning matters. Raul-Angelo has routinely advised and advises corporate and private clients in pre-litigation and litigation concerning cross-border tax and transfer pricing matters. His clients include leading global investment banks, Italian and foreign multinationals, and prominent HNWIs, families and family offices. He is author of many publications on international tax matters and is frequent speaker at domestic and international congresses. He is also co-author of a book on the Italian Patent box regime, edited by EGEA, and editor of the book edited by Kluwer titled "Tax Dispute Resolution: A Commentary on the Eu Council Directive 2017/185".

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.

Sara regularly assists Italian and international clients with national and international litigation involving various profiles of industrial and intellectual property law. In the same field, she provides out-of-court legal advice including advice on contracts related to her practice.

Sara Biglieri assists international groups and leading companies operating in the pharmaceutical, large-scale retail, consumer goods, energy, real estate, financial, and insurance sectors in litigation, including class actions, and arbitrations. She provides in-court and out-of-court assistance in the areas of civil, commercial, corporate, real estate and banking law with particular focus on corporate contracting, tort, climate litigation, product liability, and unfair competition. Sara has developed extensive experience in ad hoc and institutional arbitrations and has been appointed as an arbitrator by the Milan Chamber of Arbitration and the President of the Court of Milan in several proceedings. She also specializes in the resolution of compliance issues, in compliance with Legislative Decree 231/2001. Sara is Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of Equita Group S.p.A. and serves as chairman and member of Supervisory Boards in leading Italian companies. She has authored numerous publications in her areas of expertise and is recognized as a leading lawyer by leading international legal guides.

Silvio Martuccelli

Professor Martuccelli advises Italian and international clients on class actions and other complex civil, commercial, corporate, banking and insurance law matters, both in court and arbitration proceedings. Recognized as an Arbitration law expert, he is appointed arbitrator in ad hoc arbitrations and institutional arbitrations. He also provides out-of-court consultancy on Private Law with a focus on commercial contracts, corporate acquisitions, corporate disputes, national and international commercial arbitration, investment arbitration, and bankruptcy and pre-bankruptcy proceedings. Entrusted with the appointment under the Bank of Italy, he has been member of Surveillance Committees in the context of extraordinary administration proceedings (Banca Etruria e del Lazio S.p.A.; Prisma SGR S.p.A.). He acted as Chairman of the Commission for the Bar Exam 2017 at the Rome Court of Appeal. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of ITA Airways S.p.A., where he also chaired the Compensation and Nomination Committee. He is member of Guarantee Tribunal at the Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI). He is a member of the Board of Directors of R.F.I. S.p.A. (Rete Ferroviaria Italiana) and a member of the Audit and Risk Committee of the company.

Simone Bernard De La Gatinais

Simone advises Italian and international clients on corporate law, M&A, and capital markets with a particular focus on commercial contracts, private equity, joint venture, public takeover bids and public exchange offers, stock listing, and capital increases.

Stefano Passeri

Stefano advises and represents Italian and international clients in complex national and international civil, corporate and commercial disputes, either before State Courts or Arbitral Tribunals. In particular, his professional experience includes: litigating on pre-contractual, contractual and tort liability; private enforcement of antitrust torts; unfair competition; product safety and product liability; consumer law and class actions; IP/IT protection and litigation; company and commercial litigation.

Stefano Mazzotti

Stefano advises listed and non-listed industrial and financial groups, as well as Italian and foreign private equity funds with a focus on M&A, joint ventures and other extraordinary transactions in various sectors (including banking, insurance, luxury, fashion, energy, and telecommunications). He has also gained a wealth of experience in corporate governance, corporate restructuring and real estate (establishment and management of real estate investment trusts and real estate funds as well as sale and purchase of real estate companies and portfolios).

Stefano Manacorda

Stefano advises clients on matters concerning corporate criminal law and compliance, with a special focus on international issues. He is specialized in the international economic sanctions legal framework. Stefano assists clients in multi-jurisdictional cases, including judicial cooperation in criminal matters, and regularly takes part in internal investigations. Among others, his main clients - both Italian and foreign - are in the following industries: finance, Oil&Gas, energy, defence. A lawyer registered with Bar of Naples, he has been an expert admitted to the International Criminal Court. He was part of the commission for the review of corporate criminal liability established within the Italian Ministry of Justice, as well as other government commissions. He was a consultant for the United Nations, the World Bank and OECD on international criminal law issues.

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.

Valeria De Lucia

Valeria advises Italian and International corporate clients in different business sectors on employment and labour law matters, including planning and implementation of collective dismissal and redundancy plans, senior executive appointments and terminations, data protection in employment relationships. She has also gained a wide experience as a litigator.

Vincenzo Troiano

Vincenzo advises banks, insurance companies, asset management companies, payment institutions, institutional and international investors (pension funds, open-ended investment companies, real estate investment trust, reserved alternative investment funds), and other regulated entities on supervisory and operational compliance matters, corporate governance rules, codes of conduct and prudential regulations, structuring of investment platforms and products, private equity funds, extraordinary transactions involving relevant industry-specific regulatory provisions (reorganisation of financial sector groups and financial conglomerates), securitisation, real estate investment through regulated entities (such as closed-ended investment companies, listed real estate companies, funds), innovative financial products, financial digitalisation, supervisory procedures and penalties in the various areas of regulated finance and money laundering.