Alessandra Ortelli is a counsel in the banking & finance department of our Milan office. She has extensive experience in restructurings, acquisition and leveraged finance and has advised on a number of project finance and structured finance transactions.
Alessandra Ghezzi is a Counsel based at Linklaters' Milan offices specialized in corporate law advice to domestic and international clients, particularly on mergers & acquisitions and other extraordinary transactions. She gained nearly twenty years of experience in advising both corporate and PE clients in some of the most complex Italian M&A transactions in recent years.
Andrea has extensive experience acting on acquisition and leveraged finance transactions advising financial sponsors, principal investors and lenders in Italy and abroad. He also has extensive experience in real estate finance, debt restructuring and general lending transactions, both in the Italian market and in cross-border transactions. He regularly advises financial sponsors, principal investors, lenders and borrowers in the Italian market and in cross-border transactions.
Anna Ferraresso is a Counsel in the Structured Finance and Financial Regulation department of Linklaters' Milan offices. She has extensive experience in advising on compliance with regulatory rules (in respect of various domestic and cross-border issues), on the regulatory aspects of corporate M&A and financing transactions, on business structuring and product design. Anna has also gained deep knowledge of investment funds (AIFs and UCITS) by advising major global asset managers as well as emerging players. She advised clients on the implementation of numerous EU regulatory reforms initiatives such as AIFMD, MiFID II, CRD V/CRR II, BRRD II, Solvency II.
Specialized in corporate matters, Claudia has assisted and advised many of the most important Italian and international banks and corporates in the context of complex extraordinary transactions and currently her main focus is on strategic and corporate governance issues and ESG-linked topics.
Dario Longo is a partner in our capital markets group at Linklaters since the establishment of the Milan office in 2007. He is the head of the structured finance and financial regulatory practices, and his practice covers the entire cycle of financial regulated assets. He regularly acts for financial sponsors and international banks on structured financed transactions, structured lending, securitization transactions, NPLs and servicing platforms, and advises on M&A transactions on regulated assets, fund formation and general financial regulations.
Diego Esposito is a partner based in the firm’s Milan office but has also spent 6 months on secondment to the firm’s headquarters in London and 10 months on secondment to the firm’s Hong Kong office. Diego specializes in acquisition and leveraged finance, syndicated lending, restructuring and structured finance, including High Yield bonds and SSRCF financing and private bonds structures. He has significant experience advising those on all sides of transactions, including arrangers, sponsors (including private equity sponsors), financing providers and borrowers in domestic and cross-border transactions.
Emanuele is a senior managing associate in the Investment Funds & Financial Regulation group based in Milan. He has extensive experience in relation to investment funds and related financial regulation matters, including structuring, setting-up, authorisation, restructuring and liquidation of regulated fund managers (AIFM) and alternative investment funds. He regularly provides assistance related to designing, structuring and implementation of bespoke complex and innovative regulated fund structures with real estate, credit, turnaround and private equity strategies. He also has extensive experience in financial regulation, advising on complex regulatory issues in the field of investment management, fintech, banking and insurance industry. His experience includes, inter alia, advising on authorisation of regulated entities, reorganization of financial groups, Brexit, AIFMD, MiFID II, ESG legislation, PSD II, CRR, prudential regulation, anti-money laundering/ anti-terrorism legislation, change in control, reorganisations, outsourcing as well as conduct of business rules. Furthermore, he regularly assists financial institutions and sponsors in connection with any regulatory aspect of M&A/Capital markets/banking transactions as well as ordinary and extraordinary transactions involving financial industry-specific regulations.
Ettore has extensive experience in corporate and structured lending, acquisition and real estate finance, restructuring and turnaround procedures, debtor-in-possession financing and acquisition/disposal of UTP/NPL portfolios and single names, both in the Italian market and in cross-border transactions.
Fabio Balza is a Counsel of Linklaters Milan tax department. He joined Linklaters in January 2020. Fabio regularly advises on Italian tax aspects of M&A and private equity deals following all Italian tax aspects including tax due diligence, structure memorandum, negotiation of tax clauses of transaction and finance documents and assistance in post-closing reorganizations. Fabio also advises on the Italian tax aspects of real estate, financing and refinancing transactions including management incentive plans, tax audits and tax litigation. Before joining Linklaters Fabio was responsible of the tax department in the Milan office of an international law firm.
Federica is head of the firm’s Italian Employment practice. She is experienced in all aspects of employment law, primarily focusing on senior managers’ employment contracts and terminations, retention arrangements, remuneration structures, works councils and unions’ relations and collective redundancy procedures. She also advises on transaction-related employment law issues, including in relation to mergers and acquisitions, business transfers and corporate restructurings.
Francesco Faldi is a partner in the Banking and Finance department in Linklaters' office in Milan, where he leads the Restructuring and Insolvency department. Francesco specializes in banking and finance law, bankruptcy law and debt restructuring. As head of the firm’s Italian Restructuring & Insolvency practice, Francesco advises on major restructuring and insolvency deals, focusing on non-performing loans (NPLs), including securitisation and sales of NPL portfolios. He was closely involved in structuring the first two schemes of arrangement of Italian companies. Francesco also has prowess in real estate finance, working in collaboration with the firm’s real estate practice, as well as experience in leveraged finance and general banking transactions.
Francesco de Blasio joined Linklaters in September 2021 as Head of the Real Estate department in Italy. Francesco’s experience, gained over 20 years of activity in the Real Estate sector, varies from advising clients on the acquisition of complex property portfolios, directly or through investment structures such as real estate investment funds - to corporate joint ventures aimed at real estate developments. Francesco also focuses on the main commercial Real Estate contracts, with particular regard to specific categories of properties such as hotels, sports facilities and logistic facilities. He has also gained significant experience on real estate restructuring and NPLs transactions, advising major specialized investors.
Francesco is a managing associate in the real estate practice group, based in Rome. He has been practising in the field of real estate since 2007. After a couple of years’ experience in the legal office of a public housing entity, he started his path in the private sector, where he specialized on all types of contracts relating to real estate investments, both in the field of investments/divestments and in the asset management’s advice.
Francesco is a Corporate Counsel based in Milan, specializing in equity capital markets (ECM) and mergers and acquisitions (M&A), with a particular focus on public M&A, corporate governance, and listing rules-driven transactions. In the ECM sector, Francesco regularly advises clients on the entire range of ECM transactions, including initial public offerings (IPOs), secondary offerings, rights issues, accelerated bookbuilding offerings (ABBs), private placements, and equity-linked transactions (such as convertible and exchangeable bonds). Within the M&A arena, he has developed a specialization in takeovers (inclusive of hostile/unsolicited bids), public tender offers (mandatory, voluntary, or partial), private investments in public equity (PIPEs), as well as business combinations (including de-SPAC transactions), mergers, spin-offs and corporate reorganizations involving publicly listed entities. Additionally, Francesco provides ongoing advice to both listed and private companies on corporate governance, regulatory compliance, and general corporate law matters. His clientele includes investment banks, private equity firms, corporates, and other key stakeholders (such as, board members). Francesco is recognized in several legal directories, including Chambers Global, Chambers Europe and The Legal500, where clients praised his “right mix of subject matter competence, gravitas and empathy to guide clients and counterparties towards mutually acceptable compromises”, as well as his technical skills, positive attitude, responsiveness, and client focus. Prior to joining Linklaters, Francesco started his career at a leading Italian law firm, contributing to corporate and capital market transactions, including several listings on the AIM Italia (now, Euronext Growth Milan). His tenure included a secondment to the legal department of IDeA FIMIT SGR S.p.A. (now DeA Capital Real Estate SGR S.p.A.), where he broadened his experience in general corporate assistance and in dealing with the Italian regulators (CONSOB and Bank of Italy).
Giorgio specialises in transactional work with a focus on cross-border public and private M&A, joint ventures, and private equity transactions. He regularly advises corporations in their national and cross-border M&A activity, and leading Italian and international private equity and credit funds in their downstream work and portfolio management. Since January 2017 Giorgio co-heads the global consumer sector of the firm and is dual qualified in Italy and in the UK.
Ivan Chuprunov has over 17 years of experience of advising international clients on complex private and public M&A transactions, joint ventures and restructurings as well as providing general corporate law advice. Ivan has been working on transactions involving investments into Brazil, China, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom and United States of America. He is a versatile specialist with experience across various sectors with particular focus on deals technology and fintech, energy, consumer and healthcare sectors.
Laura is a managing associate in the Capital Markets department of Linklaters' Milan office. She specialises in debt and equity capital markets transactions and has assisted international banks, insurance companies and large Italian corporates in relation to establishing and updating Euro Medium Term Notes programmes, Eurobonds, private placements, convertible bonds and liability management exercises.
Lilia is a managing associate in the Banking & Finance department of our Milan office. Lilia has extensive experience covering all areas of the banking and finance practice. In particular she acts both for financial sponsors, principal investors and lenders and credit providers in local and cross border transactions, on investment grade and acquisition financings as well as leveraged acquisition financings, real estate finance, project finance, debt restructuring and general lending transactions. She has gained a strong expertise in real estate transactions quickly becoming the first port of call for clients and colleagues in respect of all banking and finance aspects of real estate transactions the office has dealt with.
Linda Taylor is an Italian and English law-qualified Counsel based at Linklaters' Milan offices, with focus on Sustainable Finance, ESG and DEI, where she leads the international DCM practice group . She is an English law specialist in debt and equity capital markets transactions involving Italian issuers and her in-depth knowledge of the Italian market is complemented by her extensive experience in international capital markets. She regularly advises on a broad range of capital markets transactions and has advised issuers and underwriters in relation to IPOs, block trades, exchangeable/convertible bonds, regulatory capital, corporate bonds, MTN programmes and liability management. Linda is also co-head of the Linklaters Italian ESG practice, which includes lawyers from all practice areas of the firm to deliver a full service offer on ESG matters.
Lorenzo is a Capital Markets counsel based in the firm’s Milan office and has experience across all aspects of structured finance work, with particular expertise in non-performing loan acquisitions and financings, securitisations, asset backed financings, covered bonds and structured real estate. In 2015 Lorenzo was seconded to an international bank in London for six months and in 2012 he spent six months on secondment to the firm’s London office.
Luca Turchini is an associate in the real estate department of the Milan office. Luca advises domestic and international clients on local and cross border real estate transactions primarily involving acquisitions, disposals, development and letting of single assets and complex real estate portfolios, directly or indirectly through investment structures such as real estate investment funds, with particular reference to logistics, office and retail facilities.
As head of the firm’s Italian Competition/Antitrust practice, Lucio has extensive knowledge of all aspects of EU and Italian competition law and offers clients strategically focussed, commercial and practical advice in their business-critical corporate behavioural and merger control cases. Lucio regularly represents clients before the Italian Competition Authority and the Italian administrative and civil courts. He also frequently acts before the European Commission as well as the General Court and the Court of Justice in Luxembourg. He is highly experienced in various sectors, including pharmaceuticals, insurance, consumer, aerospace and defence, oil. Lucio also regularly advises and represents clients in foreign investment filings before the Italian Presidency of Council of Ministers.
Marco Carrieri is a Counsel at Linklaters in Milan. He has experience in leveraged and acquisition finance, syndicated lending, real estate finance, project finance, insolvency/restructuring and structured finance. He has also been involved in a number of capital markets and public M&A transactions, as well as securitization and structured finance deals.
Pietro Belloni is a partner in mainstream corporate practice of Linklaters' Milan office, recognised in 2014 as a “rising star” by leading Italian legal newspaper, Legal Community. He is a corporate law specialist, experienced in international and domestic M&A transactions and joint ventures both in the financial institutions, in the private equity and industrial sectors. Pietro has developed a significant experience also in real estate transactions, restructuring transactions, energy transactions and outsourcing transactions.
Roberto Casati practice focuses on securities, corporate, banking, EU, and international business law. He has extensive experience in Italian and cross-border public and private mergers and acquisitions as well as joint ventures. He is also quite active in international arbitrations, both as counsel and arbitrator. He has written and lectured extensively on EU and Italian law in the US, Europe, and the Far East. He represents some of the largest Italian listed companies and gives advice to management and the board of directors on strategic issues and corporate governance matters. Roberto joined Linklaters in March 2018. With his previous firms, he has handled several of the largest Italian M&A and joint venture deals.
Roberto is partner and head of the tax practice in Italy. Roberto regularly advises financial institutions, private equity firms, real estate investors, credit funds and multinationals on a wide range of domestic and international tax matters. Roberto provides tax law advice in respect of domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganizations, capital market transactions, structured finance transactions, securitizations, financings, as well as distressed and non-distressed private equity and real estate transactions. Roberto is also experienced in assisting clients in connection with tax ruling requests, tax refund claims, tax audits and assessments, tax litigations and settlements.
Dual English and Italian law-qualified, Tessa has a long-established track record as an energy lawyer, specialising in renewable energy, oil & gas and conventional power-related matters. She heads the firm’s Energy, Infrastructure and Renewables practice in Italy. Tessa advises borrowers and lenders, including commercial banks, multilaterals and export credit agencies (ECAs) domestically and internationally, on financings, including project, export credit, leveraged and acquisition finance, principally in the energy and infrastructure sectors and from opportunities arising from the energy transition. She is also actively involved with the firm’s initiatives surrounding Africa, including developing and maintaining African client and institutional relationships. Tessa also heads the firm’s European Export Finance Practice, is a member of the firm’s ECA group, coordinates the Italian ESG working group and is a member of the Italian CSR committee and the firm’s global D&I committee.
Ugo is a corporate Partner based in Milan who regularly assists major investment banks, financial institutions and corporates on a variety of capital markets transactions, including equity and equity-linked transactions (e.g. convertible and exchangeable bonds), right issues and various debt deals. He assists both issuers and underwriters and has considerable experience in advising listed companies in establishing and maintaining effective corporate governance structures.