ADVANT Nctm

Alberto Toffoletto

Equity Partner. Alberto Toffoletto has extensive experience in Litigation & Arbitration, Antitrust & Competition Law, Corporate & Commercial Law, Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity. He advises national, international and multinational companies and private equity funds on acquisitions (both domestic and cross-border), litigations, arbitrations and antitrust law. Mr. Toffoletto is also Full Professor of Commercial and Company Law at Università degli Studi di Milano. Alberto Toffoletto is member of the Board at Nctm.

Alberto Massimo Rossi

Equity Partner. Alberto Massimo Rossi practices law in Milan, Genoa and in the main ports of Italy. He is responsible for the shipping team. He practices marine, port and land transport law, trade, competition and custom law. He has an extensive litigation experience before the Italian Courts, in international arbitrations and before the EU Commission and Courts in Luxembourg. His clients include shipping companies, port terminal operators, traders, land transport operators, P&I and marine insurance companies.

Alfredo Lizio

Equity Partner. Alfredo Lizio regularly advises Italian and international companies, banks, and financial institutions on matters related to shipping and aviation finance, structured finance, lease or sale and lease back, contracts for the use of ships and aircrafts, including bareboat charter agreements, time charter agreements, affreightment contracts, ship management agreements, dry and wet lease agreements, purchase and sale of ships and aircrafts, and other legal matters involving shipping and aviation. He also focuses on debt restructuring and insolvency.

Angelo Anglani

Equity Partner, based in Rome. Angelo Anglani is an experienced dispute resolution lawyer, with a particular focus on cross border litigation and international arbitration. His practice ranges from general commercial litigation to securities litigation, mass actions, unfair competition, product liability, litigation or pre-litigation arising from m&a, construction, energy and commercial contracts, also with respect to any insolvency related aspects. He is very active in the area of international and domestic arbitration, whether under the rules of ICC and other arbitral institutions, under ad-hoc rules, or in the context of court challenges of arbitration awards. Frequently appointed as arbitrator in international arbitration proceedings. He frequently acted as expert on Italian law in legal proceedings pending before foreign courts, preparing affidavit and/or expert reports on aspects of Italian law applicable to the relevant disputes. He repeatedly assisted, as a counsel, foreign clients in mediation procedures held in Italy.

Anthony Perotto

Equity Partner, based in London. Anthony Perotto has extensive experience in advising international and domestic Insurers, Reinsurers and other players in the Insurance Industry on Italian Insurance and Reinsurance Law with regard to contentious and non-contentious matters. Anthony heads Nctm Insurance and Reinsurance Department, which is composed of lawyers based in Milan, Rome and London and specializes in any area of Insurance and reinsurance law and business.He is member of the Board at Nctm.

Antonio Tola

Equity Partner. Antonio Tola specialises in Civil Litigation, providing assistance both in court proceedings at any level and in arbitration proceedings, and has extensive expertise in Bankruptcy Law. Mr. Tola advises clients on Corporate & Commercial Law and Real Estate. He is also a regular speaker at seminars and events on Real Estate.

Barbara Aloisi

From 2003, she is a partner of the law firm Nctm, studio legale associato (tax department), dealing primarily with tax advice for multinational groups, financial intermediaries and private equity funds. She has extensive experience in the following areas: (i) tax advice in acquisition and post-acquisition reorganizations (e.g. Chequers Capital acquiring the Bozzetto Group in 2017; LBO France acquiring FineSounds Group in 2014; Clessidra S.G.R. acquiring Bitolea in 2012) (iii) merger transactions (iii) management incentives; (iv) transfer pricing; (v) IAS/IFRS adoption. She is statutory auditor of FinecoBank Spa - listed on the MTA equity market - since 2012 and member of statutory auditors of industrial and financial companies since 2000. She is member of the supervisory board established pursuant to Legislative decree n. 231/2001 at some companies.

Bernard O'Connor

Equity Partner, based in Brussels. Bernard O’Connor is an EU and WTO lawyer and manages the Brussels office of Nctm. Mr O’Connor advises domestic and international clients on EU and WTO Law. Qualified in 1980, Bernard opened his own practice in 1996. In 2009 Bernard joined Nctm. He has extensive litigation experience both in the EU courts in Luxembourg and in WTO dispute settlement in Geneva. He currently represents the Council of the EU in trade cases before the EU courts. Many of his cases have concerned EU and WTO food and agricultural law. Mr O’Connor teaches in a number of universities including: the State University, Milan, (full time course, undergraduate); the MILE at the University of Bern, and at IELPO, University of Barcelona and at Carlos III, Madrid (all trade modules, post graduate). He has written books on EU and WTO law.

Bruno Fondacaro

Equity Partner. Bruno Fondacaro has extensive expertise in commercial and financial litigation and arbitration, insolvency, commercial contract and ICT matters and advising domestic and international clients. He regularly represents foreign clients in Italian litigation and actively handles domestic arbitrations.

Carlo Grignani

Equity Partner. Carlo Grignani specialises in commercial and corporate law as well as in M&A, mainly in the telecommunications, new technologies and energy sectors. Is involved in domestic and cross-border M&A, JV and start-up investment transactions, relating to either listed and non-listed companies. Has matured extensive experience in contract law, this including specific expertise in relation to contracts in the TMT sector, in the energy sector, contractual liability and consumer legislation. Participated to national and international workshops on telecommunications law, IT, Data Protection, M&A and Energy.

Christian Romeo

Christian Romeo, Equity Partner, is specialized in Arbitration & Litigation, Banking & Finance, Contract law, Inheritance law. He is also Associate Professor of Private Law at the Department of Private law of the Università degli Studi di Milano

Christian Mocellin

Equity Partner. Christian Mocellin has extensive experience in Real Estate Law, company law and commercial contracts. He assists Italian and international Real Estate companies and investment funds and Real Estate developers, national and multinational in the acquisition of areas and in the negotiation of the relevant agreements, drawing up and negotiation of construction agreements, sale and purchase agreements, forward lease agreements and, more in general, on civil and commercial law. In particular, Christian is specialized in real estate developments and in the acquisition and dismissal of Real Estate portfolios and of single assets. Christian has a wide experience in all the legal issues related to the Real Estate sector and, in particular, those relative to RE development.

Daniele Tani

Equity Partner.Daniele Tani has an extensive experience in the areas of corporate, M&A, commercial law and litigation. He has provided legal advice in a number of national and transnational transactions, as well as represented his clients in various kinds of judicial and arbitration proceedings. His ten-years’ experience as in-house counsel is highly appreciated by the clients as it offers the possibility to couple a straight managerial approach to legal skills.

Dario Clementi

Equity Partner, based in Rome. Dario Clementi has extensive experience in legal advice on employment, labor law, benefits, executive operations, legal negotiations, contracts and memorandums draft - day-to-day legal counseling and assistance in litigation management for national and international prime companies - development of employment policies - handling of corporate crisis and promotion of collective dismissal procedures and collective retirement plans for mass employee termination - labor relations - personally handled procedures entailing unemployment insurance and redundancy, reconciling the latter with defensive job security agreements for the companies subject to extraordinary wages guarantee fund regime - directing and coordinating a team of trainee lawyers and associates on the day-to-day legal counseling - represents prime national and international companies before Courts and Public Boards (e.g. Direzione Territoriale del Lavoro, Ministero del Lavoro, commissioni di conciliazione, collegi arbitrali).

Eugenio Siragusa

Equity Partner, based in Rome. Eugenio S. Siragusa specializes in banking, finance, energy and corporate law. Has developed specific experiences and skills in domestic and foreign project finance transaction, including transactions structured through the General Contractor system, and has advised several lending entities and foreign and Italian companies involved in the sectors of: energy (green and brown field projects), transportation and infrastructures. His clients belong to the following industrial sectors: banking, energy, shipping, transportation and infrastructures (highways, high-speed trains, hospitals, ports, offices, parking, hotels).

Fabio Pizzoccheri

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Fabio Marelli

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.

Federico Trutalli

Equity Partner. Federico Trutalli is a tax specialist focusing on taxation of corporate groups at both national and international level, M&A e Private Equity, besides advising on employment and incentive plan matters. He provides tax advice to Italian and international multinational groups in the sector of telecommunications, energy and real estate as well as to banks and private equity funds. As an expert in international tax and extraordinary transactions, he not only provides tax litigation services but also handles the pre-litigation stage and assists in the negotiation of tax settlements, including in connection with non-recurring investigations and assessments.

Federico Manili

Equity Partner, based in Rome. Federico Manili specialises on Corporate and Commercial contracts and Acquisitions, especially in the sector of Renewable Energies. Manili’s expertise covers the drafting of due diligence reports and all types of contracts and, in the renewable energy sector, legal services connected with the development, implementation, financing and transfer of wind and/or solar energy projects. Federico Manili is qualified for practicing his profession both in Italy and in Denmark, where he has practised for many years before returning to Italy in the late nineties. Due to his knowledge of the Danish language and the Danish law, at Nctm he also assists leading clients from Denmark and from Nordic countries in general, advicing them on a regular on-going and ad-hoc basis. Specifically on his RE expertise, Federico Manili has a more than 20 year-experience in assisting Danish, German, UK, Belgian, French and Spanish companies in the acquisition of RE-projects and plants, both in the wind and in the PV sector. In addition, Federico Manili has assisted for years Danish wind turbines companies in connection with the sale and the installation of plants in Italy.

Filippo Cesaris

Equity Partner. Filippo Cesaris specialises in M&A, Private Equity, Debt Restructuring and Insolvency. Over the years he has gained significant experience in a wide range of highly sophisticated domestic and cross-border deals in these areas. He assists, on regular basis, major multinational companies and financial institutions, is author of a number of publications mainly on corporate and insolvency matters, and has chaired one of the largest Italian group in tourism and leisure employing more than 1.200 people.

Francesca Bonino

Equity Partner. Francesca Bonino has provided assistance in the regulatory, pharrmaceutical, health and safety and environmental fields to several multinational corporations, active in the pharmaceutical, chemical, ceramics and mechanical industry.Francesca Bonino held various positions with increasing responsibilities within the Legal and Corporate Affairs Department of Montedison, the Italian multinational corporation with diversified activities in the chemical sector. Over the last decade, Francesca Bonino has provided assistance in the regulatory, pharmaceutical, health and safety and environmental fields to several multinational corporations, active in the pharmaceutical, chemical, ceramics and mechanical industry.

Francesco Mazzocchi

Francesco Mazzocchi specialises in Antitrust and Competition Law and EU Law. He assists undertakings involved in proceedings before the European Commission and the EU courts relating to State aid, cartel and abuse of dominant position. He has gained a significant experience in merger control, especially in multi-jurisdictional filings and regularly advises companies on anticompetitive behavior and in the assessment of cooperation, distribution and licensing agreements. His expertise covers antitrust litigation, including actions for damages (private enforcement) and appeals of decisions by the Italian competition authority (AGCM) before the administrative courts. Francesco regularly deals with cases relating to unfair commercial practices and consumer protection, both before the AGCM and the Italian courts. Moreover, he assists clients on a broad range of EU law-related matters, including the EU Regulation on foreign direct investments and application thereof at a national level. He is the author of several publications in his areas of expertise.

Giammarco Navarra

Equity Partner, based in Rome. Giammarco Navarra has gained solid experience in commercial matters. He provides Italian and foreign clients with assistance in significant commercial (distribution, franchising, transport, energy contracts, product liability) and bankruptcy disputes both litigation and arbitration.He regularly assists domestic and international clients on ongoing basis with particular reference to the following areas:- Commercial and Corporate Law – large-scale retail trade, renewable energy, shipping and automotive sectors;- Corporate compliance pursuant to Legislative Decree no. 231/2001;- Bankruptcy Law - assistance during the setting up and corporate restructuring phase, including through the recourse to insolvency and pre-insolvency procedures, turnaround plans pursuant to Article 67, third paragraph, letter d) of the Italian Bankruptcy Law and debt restructuring agreements pursuant to Article 182 bis of the Italian Bankruptcy Law;- Non profit – assistance to non-profit organizations in all legal matters related to their commercial and institutional activities.

Gian Carlo Sessa

Equity Partner. Gian Carlo Sessa gained considerable expertise in litigation and arbitration and also in Bankruptcy Law. Mr. Sessa assists financial institutions and international companies in complex litigations on banking and corporate matters, public tenders and trade contracts issues. Furthermore, Mr. Sessa specialises both in national and international arbitration on the above matters. Mr. Sessa assists private clients on trust, succession and restructuring activities of private family assets. He is a speaker at conferences and workshops in his areas of expertise.

Giovanni de' Capitani

Giovanni de’ Capitani di Vimercate, Equity Partner, has a strong experience in Banking & Finance.He advises banks and financial intermediaries, as well as companies and private equity funds, in relation to granting of loans and debt restructuring: to this regard, Giovanni handled a large number of complicated restructuring transactions such as Sirti, Maire Tecnimont, Limoni e La Gardenia, Vetrerie Riunite. Always in favour of banks and financial intermediaries, both Italian and foreign, he provides advice in relation to regulatory matters. He also assisted many banks in relation to the sale of non-performing loans and leasing portfolios. He is also specialised in Mergers & Aquisitions, with a strong expertise in particular, in M&A-banking related transactions, such as – recently – those concerning Hypo Alpe Adria Bank, Santander Private Banking and Banca Popolare Lecchese.

Giuliano Berruti

Equity Partner, based in Rome. Giuliano Berruti is specialised in administrative law, public contracts (public constructions and public procurement), infrastructures public concessions, public utilities, environmental law, zoning plans regulation, pharmaceutical law. From 1989 -1995, Adjunct Professor of Administrative Law, Legal-Economic program at the Law Faculty of the LUISS University of Rome. Lector at several conferences on public procurement law.

Guido Bartalini

Equity Partner. Guido Bartalini has extensive experience in out-of-court and court assistance of domestic and international clients with commercial and financial issues and domestic and international arbitrations. Qualified in Italy in 1991, since 2002 he has been professor in Private and Civil Law in two major Italian Universities: Università Commerciale L. Bocconi and Università degli Studi di Bergamo. In 2004 he was selected as International Legal Practice Advisor of John Marshall Law School (Chicago), and in 2005 as International Practice Advisor for the Center for International Legal Studies (Salzburg). He has worked with Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police), as a Deputy Teacher in Commercial Law, and he was member of anti-doping commission of Italian Ice Sport Association from 2002 to 2006.

Guido Fauda

Equity Partner. Guido Fauda’s practice concentrates on commercial and corporate law, as well as on restructuring and turnaround. He has substantial experience in mergers and acquisitions, defeasance and turnaround operations and insolvencies. He advises on the formation and administration of joint ventures, the establishment and development of start-ups as subsidiaries of foreign companies, merger and acquisition transactions, generally involving Italian companies, and corporate and commercial transactions. Mr. Fauda advises leading international multinational groups in the industrial and technology sectors, as well as those concerned with insurance activities with their ongoing legal needs, including assistance on extraordinary and ordinary business transactions. Recent deals include transactions in the ITC and IP fields for leading Japanese players and Bancassurance for a leading French insurance group. Mr. Fauda, also has participated in the largest European banking restructuring (Crédit Lyonnais), and since 1996, he has been advising the French country on the unwinding of the relevant bad-bank. (Consortium de Réalisation). Guido Fauda is member of the Board at Nctm.

Guido Martinelli

Equity Partner, based in Rome. Guido Martinelli provides tax advice to both public and private companies, including multinational corporations, in connection with both day-to-day issues and extraordinary transactions. He has special expertise in the tax implications of transactions in the finance, real estate, restructuring and renewables sector. With particular reference to the renewables sector, he took part in technical discussion groups between trade associations (e.g. Confindustria and ANEV, to whom he is an advisor) and the Italian Revenue/Land Registry Office (Agenzia Entrate/Territorio). With particular reference to the wind energy sector, he has been providing advice and due diligence services to leading business and financial groups – respectively, in connection with transactions involving plant development and/or acquisition and financing – such as, inter alia: Greentech AS (plants in Sardinia, Sicily, Calabria); Fabbriche Energia Rinnovabili Alternative S.r.l. (plants in Tuscany, Liguria); Vestas Italia S.r.l. (Piansano plant); WPD Group (plants in Puglia, Campania). Again in relation to the wind energy sector, he provides tax advice, on both an on-going and a special needs basis, to some of the sector’s key groups (e.g. IVPC, ERG and Acciona), for whom he also acts as counsel in tax proceedings relating to specific wind energy-related issues (e.g. cadastral revenue, IMU, ground lease taxation, amortisation, Robin Hood Tax). He is the author of numerous articles on tax matters for various trade journals. He has a deep experience also in the photovoltaic sector since he has worked with several professional associations in this area.

Lorena Possagno

Equity Partner. Lorena Possagno specialises in M&A and corporate law and has extensive experience in commercial and corporate law, this including in relation to corporate governance and contracts. Lorena was involved in various domestic and cross-border M&A, JV and corporate transactions, and, in general, advises on corporate related issues. She has been advising domestic and foreign pharmaceutical companies, such as for the Fresenius Group and other multinational companies.Lorena Possagno is member of the Board at Nctm.

Lorenzo Attolico

Equity Partner, based in Rome. Lorenzo Attolico specialises in the field of intellectual property and particularly copyright, trademark and patent protection, communication law and unfair competition, with a focus on new technologies. He assists clients in litigation arising from intellectual property rights infringement in various jurisdictions. Particularly in the area of copyright, Mr. Attolico has a wealth of experience and is a specialist in entertainment and media law, in which field he is commonly acknowledged as one of the leaders in the market, assisting key multinational and national companies especially in the music, cinema, audio-visual, videogames and radio-and-TV sector. He also has a great experience in the field of fashion law as well as in all aspects of the new frontier of IP law as Artificial Intelligence. Lorenzo Attolico is member of the Board at Nctm.

Lorenzo Foot

Senior Associate

Luca Toffoletti

Equity Partner. Luca Toffoletti specializes in antitrust and competition Law and Litigation. He regularly assists L’Oréal S.p.A., Telecom Italia and Kone S.p.A (among his other clients). Mr Toffoletti started his University Career as Research Fellow at the Università degli Studi di Milano in 2000 and then at the Università di Castellanza (LIUC) as a Contract Professor of Commercial Law (2000/2001), Industrial Law (2001/2003), Economic Analysis of Law (2002/2003), Competition Law and Economics (2002/2009). He currently teaches Competition and Economics Law at the Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, and he is a Research Fellow at the Università degli Studi di Milano, where he teaches Competition Law & Economics.

Luca Cavagnaro

Luca Cavagnaro deals with commercial and corporate law and advises on ordinary and extraordinary operations. He gained a specific experience in corporate governance and compliance on behalf of listed and unlisted companies. He assists national and international firms active in the industrial and service sectors with a focus on energy, shipping, HSE, transport and logistics. Luca also covers various positions as director and supervisory body of companies and foundations.

Lucia Corradi

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.

Luigi Croce

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.

Lukas Plattner

Equity Partner. Lukas Plattner focuses on capital markets, public offerings, private placements, and banking and regulatory securities matters. His list of clients includes: Energica Motor Company, Triboo, Masi Agricola, Elettra Investimenti, SEC, Mobyt, Clabo Group, Caleido Group, PLT Energia, Enertronica, Primi Sui Motori, Poligrafici Printing, First Capital, Ambromobiliare, Fiera Milano and Maire Tecnimont. He is a professor for several master degree level courses on corporate and securities law. He is recommended by the IFLR 1000 and Who’s Who Legal in corporate and securities law.Lukas is author of a wide range of articles on financial market regulation, takeovers, M&A and general corporate law.

Manfredi Luongo

Equity Partner. Manfredi Luongo provides tax, corporate, accounting and valuation consultancy.He assists commercial, industrial, real estate and financial companies and groups.Manfredi specializes in the structuring and implementation of extraordinary transactions, with particular regard to private equity transactions and generational transfers, preparation of valuation reports and transfer pricing analysis.He lectures at the Master in Tax Law of 24 Ore Business School.

Marco Monaco

Equity Partner with particular expertise in administrative law. He provides legal assistance both in court proceedings and in extrajudicial settings and has, also, a significant experience on award procedures for public contracts, both to companies and contracting authorities.

Mario Giambò

Equity Partner. Mario Giambò has extensive experience in advising international clients on cross border M&A and corporate finance transactions. He regularly advises private equity funds and multinational companies investing in Italy in a broad range of industries, including infrastructures and real estate. He also advises, on an on going basis, private equity funds and multinational companies in relation to corporate governance, compliance and contractual matters. Mario is Equity Partner of Nctm since 2017.

Martino Andreoni

Martino Andreoni, Equity Partner, mainly deals with litigation and arbitration in civil - commercial law, competition law, financial law and bankruptcy law. After university, Martino kept cultivating his own interest for civil procedure law - the field in which he obtained a PhD – arbitration and bankruptcy law. He was scholar of civil procedure law, arbitration - and for a period he was a research fellowand – still, bankruptcy law at the University of Milan (and before at the University of Milan-Bicocca).

Matteo Cipriano

Matteo advises a number of domestic and international companies in tax matters and has extensive experience in providing on-going tax assistance. He usually assists companies in domestic and international tax issues, tax due diligence, planning of special operations and corporate reorganizations and advises his clients in relation to transfer pricing matters. He also holds the position of statutory auditor in leading companies in Veneto. He is an Professor of Corporate Finance and Strategic Finance at the University of Padua.

Matteo Trapani

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.

Matteo Gallanti

Equity Partner, based in London. Matteo Gallanti is resident in the London office. His practice focuses on banking and finance, restructuring & turnaround and capital markets. He has extensive experience in structure finance transactions (with particular reference to those related to distressed assets) and corporate lending transactions (with a particular focus on cross-border acquisition and asset finance and banking restructuring), advising international banks and funds.

Michele Motta

Michele Motta, Equity Partner, specializes in corporate and commercial law, with particular regard to M&A and Private Equity. He regularly assists leading national and international players, operating in various industrial fields, with respect to extraordinary management transactions (e.g. sales and contributions of shares, sales, contributions and leases of businesses and lines of business, corporate capital increases, mergers and demergers, joint venture, start-up investments etc.), with a special focus on luxury&fashion, retail, e-commerce, and consumer industries.Michele also advises on an on-going basis both Italian and international clients and primary companies’ groups on all legal aspects of corporate and commercial law and commercial contracts pertaining to their ordinary management activities.

Michele Bignami

Michele Bignami, Equity Partner at Nctm advises large multinational groups and local companies across a range of industries on employment and industrial relation matters. He also advises on distribution cases, which for historic reasons in Italy these types of cases come within Italy’s Labour law).Michele regularly advises top-managers both during the negotiation of their employment agreement and in connection with the termination of their engagement. He also has expertise in the M&A sector stemming from early in his career and is frequently involved in large transactional projects concerning labour restructuring procedures.Michele leads employment-law focused groups, which include academics and business professionals, on the impact and potential risks which new technologies may pose in the workplace as it relates to employees and workplace policies and procedures.

Paolo Lazzarino

Equity Partner. Paolo Lazzarino advises on IP rights, including trademarks, patents and copyright, and has extensive litigation experience. His expertise covers both IP litigation and commercial IP, and he has been involved in some leading cases in the Italian IP arena, such as the Hotel Cipriani trademark dispute and the enforcement of the Supreme trademark in Italy. Paolo also has coordinated the Milan IP team in major acquisitions of Italian brands on behalf of luxury groups (e.g. LVMH). He currently advises brands in the fashion, design and automotive sector on intellectual property protection and enforcement internationally. Paolo Lazzarino has authored articles on IP reviews. He is also lecturer at at IED (Istituto Europeo di Design) and SDA Bocconi master courses in Milan.

Paolo Montironi

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.

Paolo Agnesi

Equity Partner, based in Rome. Paolo Agnesi provides consulting services to public, private as well as multinational companies, and has acquired specific expertise in corporate, tax-related and budgetary matters. He is predominantly engaged in tax advising and tax planning with particular regard to both ordinary problems and extraordinary transactions. He has been engaged in numerous transactions for the acquisition of companies and of stakes in companies advising on corporate and fiscal aspects. Paolo Agnesi provides advice on corporate matters with particular reference to issues concerning the operation of governance and regulatory bodies.He was appointed as Technical Expert for the Party by a company listed on the stock exchange for the carrying out of an accounting appraisal. He has been lecturer in refresher and training courses on budgetary, accounting and tax-related matters for public and private companies. In his professional activities he was appointed Liquidator of various companies, including multinational corporations, and managed companies engaged in the commercial and financial sector. He has held the office of Sole Director of a company controlled by the Lazio Region.Paolo Agnesi is member of the Board at Nctm.

Paolo Gallarati

Equity Partner. Paolo Gallarati specializes in Corporate & Commercial and Mergers & Acquisitions and has gained significant experience in Italian and international transactions both in the SME and LE segments. He provides ongoing advice to Italian and multinational concerns, with a specific focus on regulatory, compliance and data protection matters in the TMT, Energy and Life Sciences sectors. In the TMT sector Paolo Gallarati has assisted leading international companies (Sirti, British Telecommunications, Vodafone, Microsoft, Siemens, Atos, Sintecmedia, Docomo). In the Life Sciences sector he has advised Astrazeneca, Acelity, Fresenius, Gilead Sciences, McKesson, Allegheny, Siemens Healthcare. In the energy sector he has advised Johnson Matthey, Siirtec-Nigi, IBF-Tubacex, SunEdison, Saga Italia-Bolloré, Villa & Bonaldi. In addition, he has advised national and multinational clients in domestic and multi-ijurisdiction litigation in commercial matters. Clients include: Atos and Ceva Logistics. Paolo Gallarati serves as statutory auditor, chairman or member of the compliance committee of various companies, including Extrabanca S.p.A., Fresenius Hemocare S.r.l., Laborest (Uriach) S.p.A., IBF (Tubacex) S.p.A., Saga Italia S.p.A., Mc Bride S.p.A., Bluvacanze S.p.A, Cisalpina Tours S.p.A..

Paolo Quattrocchi

Equity Partner, based in Rome. Paolo Quattrocchi specialises in corporate and commercial law and international business transactions. He advises leading national and multinational groups in corporate legal needs. He has a special focus on public affair and international relationship with Brazil, Canada, Israel, Poland, Serbia, Turkey.

Paolo Rampulla

Equity Partner. Paolo Rampulla has extensive experience in advising domestic and international clients on Italian as well as international tax planning matters, for both inbound and outbound investments. Mr. Rampulla regularly assists multinational groups and private equity funds in M&A transactions, dealing with financial and tax matters.

Piermauro Carabellese

Equity Partner. Piermauro Carabellese specializes in in tax structuring of M&A, acquisition finance, structured finance, as well as corporate restructuring transaction. Mr Carabellese has supervised numerous acquisitions on behalf of strategic investors and private equity funds and the drafting of the tax section of IPO prospectuses. He was formerly a partner in the tax department of PricewaterhouseCoopers from 1990 to 2002, and became the Managing Partner of the Italian tax practice. He has been chairman of the International and European Union tax Commission of the Italian Institute of Chartered Accountants.He is member of the Board at Nctm. He is the chairman of the professional practice of the firm.

Piero Corigliano

Equity Partner, based in Rome. Piero Corigliano specialises on M&A, and has extensive experience in all matters of corporate and commercial law. Piero regularly advises domestic and foreign industrial clients, as well as financial sponsors, including most recently Peninsula Capital, Sagemcom Energy & Telecom (a Charterhouse portfolio company), Interparking, AFGlobal Corporation (a First Reserve portfolio company), APM Terminals, Peuterey, on acquisitions of Italian assets. Piero has also been regularly engaged as seller counsel on the sale of internationally recognized, family-owned Italian assets, such as Società Europa Tessile, Unimac Gherri, Delta Tech, Capri Palace Hotel, Ansaldo T&D.

Pietro Zanoni

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.

Pietro Maria Tantalo

Equity Partner, based in London. Pietro Maria Tantalo deals with M&A, Restructuring and Capital Markets. He assists companies and national and international bodies, both private and public, in extraordinary corporate transactions and corporate finance. He has consolidated experience in the management of cross-border, inbound and outbound transactions.

Raffaele Caldarone

Raffaele Caldarone deals with corporate and commercial law. His experience includes M&A transactions and assistance to clients in business law issues. He often advises on corporate law matters including governance, risk management and ethical issues. His clients include Italian and multinational companies. He is the author of articles published by major Italian corporate and business law journals and lectures at conferences and seminars on corporate and commercial law issues. His main clients in corporate/M&A and compliance are primary world class public and private companies engaged in the Oil & Gas, Infrastructure, Life Sciences and Manufacturing industries.

Riccardo Sallustio

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).

Riccardo Papetti

Equity Partner. Riccardo's practice specializes primarily on M&A and Private Equity. As part of the Private Equity team, he regularly advises Italian and international private equity funds on their investments in Italy, which primarily include capital expansion and buy-out deals, as well as investments in distressed situations, either Court driven or out-of- Court. Riccardo has considerable experience in providing assistance on corporate governance issues either for public or companies preparing for their initial public offering (IPO), and the Borsa Italiana’s Best Practices, and for private companies backed by financial investors (e.g. setting up corporate governance in MBOs; structuring stock option and long-term incentive plans and other issues).

Roberta Russo

Equity Partner. Roberta Russo provides legal advisory services in connection with day-to-day personnel management, extraordinary corporate transactions, business restructuring and reorganisation processes and bankruptcy procedures. She has considerable expertise in providing labour- and union-related assistance to both Italian and multinational (listed or unlisted) companies, assisting in litigation and advising on an on-going basis in various areas, supporting clients with problems associated to individual and collective dismissals and the relevant procedures, split-ups, including at an international level, contracts (including agency and outsourcing agreements), change of duties, agreements for harmonisation and incentive plans, including in regulated contexts (MBOs, LTIs, stock option plans, etc.). Speaker at numerous meetings and workshops on labour-law topics, organised also in cooperation with G.I.D.P.. Roberta Russo is member of the Board at Nctm.

Rosemarie Serrato

Equity Partner. Rosemarie Serrato is an expert of the Town Planning practice within the Real Estate department. She is based in the Milan office. Rosemarie specializes in public law, town planning, environmental law, and energy and public-procurement. She takes part in the evaluation of major real estate portfolios in the process of disinvestment, and has advised several urban transformation companies. She has also advised on administrative and planning proceedings both for private clients and public administration. She follows all aspects of town planning law, from due diligence to construction contracts related to government zoning plans, the preparation of administrative procedures for the approval of complex real estate redevelopment and development projects, to the granting of building permits and business licenses. She also assists public bodies in relation to real estate investment funds, the enhancement and sale of public assets and social housing. She assists Italian and international clients in all areas of administrative law. She has vast experience in public procurement, concessions and project financing. She also assists clients in relation to tendering procedures launched by Italian Public Administrations for the award of public works contracts, supply and service contracts, public service and construction concessions, and management with the project financing system. She offers legal assistance in the various stages of these procedures, supporting the client in managing the relationship with the various administrations involved. She also supports clients in the implementation phase of the contract with the contracting authority.

Sante Ricci

Equity Partner, based in Rome. Sante Ricci specialises in Corporate and Commercial Law and International Business transactions. He advises leading national and multinational groups in corporate and compliance legal needs, such as FCA , Ferrari, Maserati, NTV, Confindustria, LUISS University of Rome, Fiere Internazionali di Bologna, RCS Rizzoli Corriere della Sera, Fiera di Roma. Mr. Ricci is also a lecturer of Compliance and Corporate Governance at the University of LUISS and author of a variety of publications on commercial agreements and corporate governance; he is a member of the Confindustria Board for the preparation of the guidelines concerning organization standards in compliance with Decree Law n. 231/01. Sante Ricci is member of the Board at Nctm.

Simone De Carli

Equity Partner. Simone De Carli joined Nctm in 2002 and since then has focused on advising both industrial clients and domestic and international PE clients on extraordinary transactions. He has developed extensive expertise in all technical and commercial aspects of mergers & acquisitions and private equity. He also advises on renewable energy transactions and power plant development. Representative clients advised by Mr. De Carli include: Rhone Group, Ambienta SGR, Opera Private Equity, Barclays Private Equity, Doughty Hanson & Co., Alfaparf Group, UniEuro, Casillo Group, Ascopiave, Officina dell’Ambiente, Sky Logic.

Stefano Padovani

Equity Partner. Stefano Padovani specialized in Banking & Finance, Capital Markets, Corporate Finance and M&A regarding banking and financial services. He advises several domestic and international banks and financial institutions in extraordinary transactions which include structured finance and debt restructuring agreements, as well as in their ordinary course of business. Furthermore, he is also lead of teams of legal advisors for assistance in relation to issuance of debt securities and other operations on capital markets.Since several years he deals with Islamic Finance. His clients include: Ministry of Finance, Banco Santander, UniCredit, Banco BPM, Hypo Alpe Adria, BNL/Paribas, Banca Popolare dell’Alto Adige, Postbank, Banca Centropadana, Banca Akros, Cassa di Risparmio di Ravenna.He is member of the Board and Chairman of the Executive Committee at Nctm.

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Vittorio Noseda

Equity Partner. Vittorio Noseda has extensive experience in advising leading national and multinational groups with particular reference to extraordinary business transactions as well as ICT matters. In particular, he has been advising for 20 years ICT multinationals in all their major M&A and ICT projects, investments, outsourcings as well as other ICT and regulatory issues in Italy. Mr Noseda has been consistently highly ranked in all main directories with respect to ICT matters. Vittorio Noseda has been Managing Partner of Nctm from 2006 to 2011. He is member of the Board at Nctm.

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