Italy
Portolano Cavallo
Lawyers
Francesco Portolano
Portolano Cavallo, Italy
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Work Department
Mergers & Acquisition
Private Equity
Position
Partner
Career
Francesco’s thirty year experience includes advising on M&A, private equity, and joint ventures. Most of his work is for US strategic buyers acquiring Italian companies, mostly in the digital/media sector, including devising and negotiating complex corporate structures to tackle issues such as foreign control restrictions, government regulatory approvals, cross-media ownership, etc.
In the 2012 Financial Times Law 50 report Francesco was ranked among the “top 10 legal innovators in Europe”. According to the report Francesco “leads ‘a team of lawyers who refuse to be limited to inside-the-box thinking’ [and] tackled each challenge with deep insight and a tireless fascination for innovative approaches, with the sort of dynamic legal skill set one rarely sees in Italian media counsel”.
He was a member of the Technical Staff of the Ministry of Communications in 2006/2007, focusing on corporate issues in the TMT sector. He is past Co-Chair of the International Private Equity and Venture Capital Committee of the ABA Business Law Section.
Languages
Italian; English
Education
Francesco has obtained an LLM from the University of Chicago Law School. In 1991, at age 21, he graduated summa cum laude from the LUISS Guido Carli University.