Mr Luca Picone > Hogan Lovells International LLP > Milan, Italy > Lawyer Profile
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VIA SANTA MARIA ALLA PORTA 2
20123 MILAN
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Mr Luca Picone
Work Department
Corporate Transactional
Position
Country Managing Partner
Career
Luca Picone is a Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) partner at the Milan office of Hogan Lovells. Consistently acknowledged as a brilliant and innovative M&A expert, Luca has devoted his 25+ years’ career to advising clients on domestic and cross-border transactions. Luca’s extensive experience ranges from pure transactional work (asset and share deals, distressed M&A, tender offers, joint ventures, and restructuring) to counselling board members and shareholders on complex corporate issues. His clients include industrial corporations, financial institutions, and private equity funds operating in various sectors such as telecom, luxury, energy, food, and infrastructure.
Languages
English, Italian
Memberships
Italian Bar
Education
Law Degree, Università degli Studi di Milano, 1992
Lawyer Rankings
Italy > Industry focus: Energy
Hogan Lovells International LLP’s Italian team routinely handles complex cross-border matters for clients across the entire energy sector, including oil and gas, renewables and energy efficiency. The team includes international and domestic M&A transaction expert Luca Picone and energy regulatory specialist Francesca Angeloni.
Italy > Industry focus: Luxury goods
Hogan Lovells International LLP advises clients on all aspects of the luxury goods sector, from restructuring to compliance to distribution. Giovanni Ghirardi is an expert in IP matters, particularly as regards patents. Andrea Atteritano further complements the practice with his experience in litigation, arbitration and other contentious matters. Marco Rota Candiani and Luca Picone assist in M&A matters affecting the luxury goods industry. Luigi Mansani is also of note. Maria Luce Pittatelli completes the practice with a focus on anti-counterfeit actions, IP transactions and strategic brand counselling.
Italy > Commercial, corporate and M&A
(Hall of Fame)–
Hogan Lovells International LLP’s M&A practice in Italy advises corporate clients, financial institutions and funds on retail and e-commerce-related commercial contracts and agreements. It also assists with transformational joint ventures and strategic alliances. Renowned M&A expert Luca Picone regularly acts on major domestic and cross-border transactions, while Francesco Stella‘s sector expertise covers financial institutions, life sciences and energy. Martina Di Nicola and Pierluigi Feliciani also maintain active practices. In February 2024, experienced partner Paola Barometro was recruited from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe.
Italy > Private equity
Hogan Lovells International LLP‘s Milan team advises private equity funds on fund formations and acquisition phases. It also assists with managing portfolio companies, as well as exit stages. The experience of country managing partner Luca Picone covers transactional matters and advising board members and shareholders on complex corporate issues.
Lawyer Rankings
- Hall of Fame Italy > Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Industry focus: Luxury goods Italy
- Commercial, corporate and M&A Italy
- Private equity Italy
- Industry focus: Energy Italy
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Data privacy and data protection
- Industry focus: Healthcare and life sciences
- Industry focus: TMT
- Intellectual property
Firm Rankings
- Administrative and public law
- Banking and finance: Bank regulatory
- Capital markets: Debt
- Compliance
- Industry focus: Luxury goods
- Investment funds
- Banking and finance: Borrower side
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution
- EU and competition law
- Real estate and construction
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Banking and finance: lender or arranger side
- Private equity
- Tax
- Industry focus: Energy