ADVANT Nctm

Banking & Finance

Riccardo Sallustio specialises in banking and finance. His expertise includes leverage finance, debt restructuring, private placements and bond issues, green and sustainable finance and real estate finance.

Riccardo regularly advises lenders, financial sponsors, private debt and distressed-funds in lending and bond transactions (both cross-border and domestic) and investors in the structuring and execution of acquisitions of single name NPLs and UTPs, debt-to-own and debt restructurings (concordati preventivi, restructuring agreements and out-of-court arrangements) also in the context of distressed M&A transactions related to industrial and real estate assets.

Riccardo has also a strong expertise in green and sustainable finance, where he advises clients on ESG due diligence aspects and methodologies, green and sustainable financial and banking products (under international standards as well as aligned with the EU Taxonomy) and on social and governance best practices. He has contributed to the drafting, for The Chancery Lane Project (TCLP), of standard clauses of sustainability-linked loans and of standard objects clauses for companies committed to the achievement of Net Zero targets. He also contributed to the drafting of the standard Italian law governed Private Placement documentation for the Loan Market Association (LMA).

He is Adjunct Professor (Professore a contratto) of Green and Sustainable Finance in the MSc ‘Law, Digital Innovation and Sustainability’, at LUISS ‘Guido Carli’, Rome, for the academic year 2021/2022. Riccardo is also member of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (Venice) and Academic Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (Brussels).

Italian, English

Solicitor of the Supreme Court in England and Wales, 2002. Admitted to the Bar of Torre Annunziata (NA), 1993.

Climate Risk Academy Certificate, European University Institute, 2021. Managerial Finance Certificate Course, London School of Economics, 2020. Diploma in International Trade Law, Institute of European Studies, Turin, 1993 LLM (Master of Laws), University of London, 1991. Law Degree, University Federico II, Naples, 1990.