Gatti Pavesi Bianchi Ludovici

Alessandro focuses his activity on M&A transactions with particular focus in the banking sector, having assisted main Italian financial institutions in extraordinary transactions such as mergers, acquisitions and partnership setups in the asset management, consumer credit and bancassurance sectors. He advises listed companies and financial institutions on corporate governance and regulatory issues.

Andrea Iannaccone

His areas of expertise are corporate and group taxation, M&A and business restructuring. He also advices domestic and foreign clients in complex tax audits, pre-litigation and judicial settlements, and assists them in the defence before tax courts. He is author of several publications on tax matters and he often speaks at tax conferences as well as he lectures at post-graduate specialization courses.

Andrea Giardino

Andrea has been involved in many of Gatti Pavesi Bianchi's most significant extraordinary corporate finance transactions. He specialises in M&A, particularly with regard to acquisitions and disposals of shareholdings and businesses, leveraged buy-outs, private equity transactions, joint ventures, takeover bids and exchange offers. He also advises on real estate transactions. He is the author of numerous publications on corporate law, with particular focus on group regulation and company direction and coordination

Andrea Limongelli

Andrea Limongelli specializes in banking and finance and debt restructuring, particularly with regard to property finance and acquisition finance, in which he has advised and assisted the foremost Italian and foreign banks in a range of domestic and cross-border transactions.

Anton Carlo Frau

Anton Carlo advises on M&A transactions for both listed and unlisted companies. He is particular specialized in equity capital markets and the regulation of financial markets. He assist Italian and foreign investment banks, companies and private equity funds in acquisitions, mergers, joint ventures, public offerings and IPOs. He also advises clients on Debt Capital Markets side, handles the origination, structuring, execution and placement of bond issues.

Carlo Pavesi

Carlo Pavesi’s practice focuses on corporate law, domestic and cross-border merger and acquisitions, and private equity transactions. He has handled several of the largest Italian M&A deals of the recent years, and is considered as one of the leading lawyers for M&A transactions involving financial and banking institutions. Carlo Pavesi has represented Italian and international private equity funds in a wide range of M&A transactions. He advises on capital market transactions (including IPOs and equity offerings), and corporate governance matters. He is also active in high-profile corporate litigation and arbitration.

Francesco Gatti

Francesco is first and foremost one of the ltalian top experts in corporate law as well as in M&A transactions. He has developed an broad experience in corporate and financing law, corporate litigation and arbitration, being involved in several of the most important transactions in the last years. He has written several articles on corporate law, and has lectured in seminars on competition law and law and economics.

Franco Barucci

Franco advises both Italian and foreign companies in M&A transactions, capital markets and corporate law matters. In particular, he specializes in acquisitions and disposals of shareholdings and business, within the context of extraordinary transactions, involving listed companies and banks, as well as assisting them in corporate governance matters and in their relations with the Bank of Italy.

Gianni Martoglia

Gianni Martoglia is a skilled practitioner in the fields of financial markets and mergers and acquisitions, and he is particularly specialized in private equity. Recently he has directed some of Gatti Pavesi Bianchi's most significant and complex M&A transactions, assisting various Italian and foreign corporations and financial institutions. He has also written several articles on corporate law and securities which have appeared in some of the most important Italian publications. Furthermore, he was the co-author of the book “Tecniche di Private Equity”.

Gianpaolo Scandone

Gianpaolo Scandone is a junior partner based in the Milan office. Gianpaolo’s practice mainly focuses on corporate and financial matters, including capital market transactions, domestic and cross – border mergers and acquisitions relating to listed and non-listed companies, private equity and joint venture deals. Gianpaolo also has experience in real estate transactions, with regard to the setting of investment funds and the transfer of real estate portfolios.

Guido Sagliaschi

Guido Sagliaschi advises on various types of extraordinary real estate transactions and commercial agreements (including leases, business rentals and contract works) as well as the management of litigation and pre-litigation proceedings. He assists both Italian and foreign real estate clients in matters concerning wholesale, shopping centres, business parks, office-use and entertainment purposes as well as advising asset management companies on transactions concerning real estate investment funds.

Loredana Conidi

She is specialized in corporate and group taxation as well as in M&A and business restructuring. Her areas of expertise also include taxation of financial instruments and financial transactions, as well as stock option and incentive plans. Her practice includes tax advisory to high net worth individuals, family groups and family business. She gained a significant experience in advising on several issues regarding private clients, including estate and trust law as well as succession and inheritance tax matters. She also assists, domestic and international, clients in potential tax controversies and tax dispute resolutions through settlements. She is author of publications on tax matters.

Luca Formica

He is the partner of the firm working in the London office. His practice includes advice to high net worth individuals and trusts, with particular emphasis on Italian-UK cross-border issues. He gained a significant experience in advising on several issues regarding private clients, including trust law, matrimonial regimes, succession and inheritance tax matters, as well as forced heirship rules.

Luca Faustini

Luca mainly deals with the assistance in connection with financing and debt-restructuring transactions. He has gained a significant experience in the litigation practice and in the consulting activity with respect to securities, mainly derivatives, by advising leading financial institutions.

Luigi Arturo Bianchi

Luigi Arturo Bianchi is a full professor of corporate law at the Università Luigi Bocconi of Milan and has significant experience in corporate transactions. He advises regularly on mergers, acquisitions and transactions involving both private, public and listed companies. He is also a litigation and arbitration expert.

Michele Bissoli

Michele Bissoli deals mainly with corporate taxation, management incentive plans and international tax law. He has also gained significant experience in the management of tax litigation and out-of-court dispute resolution procedures.

Michele Aprile

Michele Aprile specialized in corporate and group taxation, taxation of individuals, taxation of financial instruments and financial transactions, taxation of real estate as well as international and EU tax law. He gained a significant expertise in advising investment funds. He is author of several publications on tax matters and he often speaks at tax conferences and lectures on post-graduate specialization courses.

Nicola Bonante

Nicola Bonante specializes in all Labour Law and Industrial Relations-related matters, including employees’ benefits, stock option plans, MBO(s) and LTIP(s), reorganization and restructuring processes, on a domestic and international level. He also deals in Labour Law matters in connection with extraordinary corporate and private equity transactions.

Paola Menicati

Paola Menicati specialises in corporate law and M&A, with particular focus on extraordinary transactions, mergers and acquisitions of both listed and non-listed companies, purchases and transfers of shareholdings and businesses, joint ventures and corporate restructurings. She also advises on matters of both civil and commercial general advice, particularly with regard to the drafting, negotiation and execution of shareholders’ agreements, voting syndicates as well as various contracts and commercial agreements. She also has extensive experience in antitrust regulations, publishing law and the legal framework on radio and television frequencies. Paola Menicati has advised both Italian and foreign companies and corporate groups in various extraordinary transactions and all matters of contract law, including the structuring, negotiation, execution and the subsequent management of such contracts.

Paola Tradati

Paola Tradati is a renowned labour lawyer who focuses in particular on restructuring processes, collective dismissals, transfers of business and stock option plans, as well as in domestic and cross-border labour aspects of extraordinary transactions.She has in-depth expertise in HR contracts both in out-of-court settlements and in litigation before the court, in remuneration policies as well as in the area of agency and distribution contracts.As a journalist she has written and published legal commentaries and legal publications on Labour Law

Paolo Garbolino

Paolo has gained extensive experience in financings (syndicated loans, leasing, factoring and debt restructurings), private equity transactions, share capital increases and the issuance of bonds by listed companies. He is also experienced in regulatory banking and renders financial and insurance legal advice as well as advising on transactions in financial derivatives.

Rocco Ferrari

Rocco specializes in real estate, focusing particularly on extraordinary sale and purchases of companies, individual assets and real estate portfolios (including sale and leaseback transactions) particularly with regard to retail, shopping centres, joint ventures, development operations and real estate contracts. He advises some of the most important international real estate investors, retailers, banks and asset management companies (which he assists in relation to the management of real estate investment funds).

Rossella Pappagallo

Rossella Pappagallo specializes in rendering corporate advice, particularly with regard to the regulation of listed issuers. She also advises on regulatory compliance, corporate governance and mergers and acquisitions of listed companies. She also advises clients on Debt Capital Markets side, handles the origination, structuring, execution and placement of bond issues In recent years she has assisted some of the Firm’s key clients in capital markets transactions, including the issuance of financial instruments and their listings on regulated markets, and in the conduction of takeover bids and exchange offers.

Stefano Valerio

Stefano Valerio specializes in M&A transactions, advising on the drafting of share purchase agreements and shareholders’ agreements as well as in relation to demergers and private equity transactions. He renders advice to clients on capital markets and various corporate law matters. He also specializes in assisting large group companies in financial distress, advising on their restructuring and pre-bankruptcy activities. He has also written several articles and editorial contributions which have been published in leading legal journals and was the co-author of the book “Tecniche di Private Equity”.

Stefano Grassani

Stefano has in-depth experience in national and international antitust law. He is recognized as one of the Italian more experienced antitrust specialists in antitrust law at both the national and supranational level, dealing with matters such as concentrations, agreements, abuse of dominant position and State aid. He also advises on the legal stages of public and private enforcement and the follow-on and stand-alone actions in litigation proceedings.He has written numerous articles on antitrust law which have been published in both leading Italian and international publications.

Stefano Verzoni

Stefano Verzoni is mainly involved in litigation and arbitration matters, in particular relating to financial, banking and corporate matters. He is often appointed as arbitrator.

Vanessa Sobrero

anessa Sobrero is specialised in capital markets, M&A and Corporate Law. She has more than ten year experience in assisting Italian and foreign clients, both industrial and financial, in extraordinary transactions, including those on the capital markets (regulated markets and multilateral trading facilities) and cross-border, both in favour of issuers and banks/intermediaries in the role of sponsor, nomad and global coordinator. She advises numerous and relevant companies, issuers and groups, also international, in regulatory, corporate governance, and market abuse matters. She has a consolidated and significant experience in the SPAC-Special purpose acquisition companies sector having participated in the main IPOs and business combinations.

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