Work Department

Mainstream Corporate practice

Position

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.

Education

Mr Casati received a J.D. degree in 1970 from the University of Milan where he practiced for some three years before moving to the US, where he spent about 8 years, both in Law School and practicing US law in a very prominent Wall Street law firm.

Mr Casati received a J.D. degree in 1978 from Columbia University School of Law, where he was a Stone Scholar, and an LL.M. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1974.

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