Linklaters LLP

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.

2018-2023: Junior Partner, Gatti Pavesi Bianchi Ludovici (Milan)

2013: Secondment at Società per Azioni Esercizi Aeroportuali S.E.A. S.p.A. (Milan)

2012-2018: Associate, Gatti Pavesi Bianchi Ludovici (Milan)

2007-2011: Lawyer, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP (Rome)

2006-2007: Intern with the Italian Antitrust Authority (Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato, Rome)

2006:  Intern at European Commission – Health and Consumer Protection Directorate (Brussels)

2002: Legal Intern at General Electric Aero Energy (Houston)

Italian, English

Admitted to the Rome Bar association in March 2011 and fellow member of Canova Club (Milan, Rome), the Law Alumni Association – LAA (NYU School of Law) and the Italian Society of Construction Law (ISCL)

2011-2012: Master of Laws (LL.M.) from the New York University School of Law (New York), and specialization course in Corporate Governance at NYU Stern School of Business

2005: Post graduate diploma from The London School of Economics (London) 

2001-2006: Masters of Science from Università Commerciale L. Bocconi (Milan), magna cum laude

July 2004: Law degree, magna cum laude

2024 Best Lawyers, "The Best Lawyers in Italy in Mergers and Acquisitions Law"

2019 to 2023, The Legal 500 EMEA, "Next Generation Partners and Recommended Lawyer – Corporate Commercial and M&A"

2020 to 2022, Legalcommunity, "Private Equity Team of the Year – Fourty under 40 Awards"

2019 to 2022, Legalcommunity, "Fourty under 40 Awards" shortlisted finalist

November 2005, "The European Prize" for excellence in corporate and antitrust law – shortlisted finalist – by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, Rome

Publications

Comments for Articles 1655 and 1669 of the Italian Civil Code and Articles 30, 36, 37 and 68 of Legislative Decree No. 163/2006, in A. Carullo and G. Iudica (eds.), in Commentario breve alla legislazione sugli Appalti Pubblici e Privati (Brief Commentary on Public and Private Procurement Regulation), published by CEDAM, 2009-2014, 2018 and 2021 La responsabilità nel contratto di appalto (The Civil Liability in Procurement Contract), in V. Di Gregorio (eds.), Trattato sull'appalto privato e pubblico (Public and Private Procurement) published by UTET, 2013 Damage claims: the Italian perspective on the burden of proof and access to evidence, in Competition Law Insight, July 2007

Mother of two kids, very keen on ski mountaineering, tennis, soccer, travelling and cooking