Leah Dunlop > LCA Studio Legale > Milan, Italy > Lawyer Profile
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VIA DELLA MOSCOVA 18
20121 MILANO
Italy
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Leah Dunlop

Work Department
Corporate/M&A
Position
Partner of the Corporate/M&A Department
Career
Leah advises clients on complex domestic and cross-border transactions and projects, including M&A, Private Equity, strategic alliances, and reorganizations, with a consolidated track record in regulated sectors such as Automotive, Consumer, Energy & Natural Resources, Financial Institutions and Industrials.
The corporate and financial investors she advises benefit from her global outlook, gained over her 35+ year career straddling the United Kingdom and Italy, seasoned deal-making skills and her talent for project management to help overcome the obstacles and close their projects, on time and within budget.
Leah joined LCA in September 2022. She qualified as a solicitor in Hogan Lovells’ London office, where she was a founding member of its Private Equity practice and became a partner in 1991. In 2000, Leah relocated to Rome to support the opening and development of Hogan Lovells’ Italian offices.
Languages
English, Italian
Memberships
Leah is a member of the City of London Solicitors’ Company, and of the Economic Association of Mexico in Italy. A passionate supporter of diversity and inclusion in the legal profession and beyond, she also participates in The Charge of the 101’ers, an Italian non-profit initiative created in 2020 by over 100 women business leaders and professionals to support female-led start-ups in their growth strategy.
Education
Law Society Finals, The College of Law, Chester, 1982
Bachelor of Law (Hons), University of Southampton, 1981
Lawyer Rankings
Italy > Commercial, corporate and M&A
(Hall of Fame)LCA Studio Legale fields experts in upper-end and mid-market M&A deals. The practice’s sector expertise encompasses energy, utilities, infrastructure, fashion and cosmetics, as well as financial services, insurance, life sciences, manufacturing, tech, telecoms, and food and beverage. With ‘extensive experience in M&A’, Daniele Bonvicini leads the department alongside M&A and extraordinary transaction expert Vittorio Turinetti di Priero. Leah Dunlop
, Antonio Di Pasquale, Riccardo Sismondi and Luca Minoli are also highly-regarded practitioners.
Italy > Industry focus: Energy
(Leading partners)Praised for its ‘extensive expertise in energy contracts and transactions’, LCA Studio Legale is versed in electricity, gas, and renewables matters. Dario Covucci often handles natural resources litigation, while Leah Dunlop
is noted for her transactional capabilities. Leonardo De Vecchi is proficient in regulatory energy matters.
Lawyer Rankings
- Hall of Fame Italy > Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Leading partners Italy > Industry focus: Energy
- Commercial, corporate and M&A Italy
- Industry focus: Energy Italy
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Genoa: leading firms
- Industry focus: Luxury goods
- Shipping
- Banking and finance: Bank regulatory
- Capital markets: Equity
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Compliance
- Data privacy and data protection
- Dispute resolution
- Industry focus: Energy
- Industry focus: Healthcare and life sciences
- Industry focus: TMT
- Intellectual property
- Private equity
- Real estate and construction
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Administrative and public law
- Banking and finance: Borrower side
- Employment
- Tax