Hogan Lovells US LLP

Corporate & Finance

Partner

Francesco De Gennaro, head of the Italian restructuring and special situations practice, is a key player of the restructuring arena in Italy.

With more than 20 years of experience, he focuses his practice on restructuring and special opportunities investments, ranging from transactional assistance to lenders and investors, such as special opportunities funds and hedge funds on financial and corporate restructurings, to distressed M&A and assets acquisitions, distressed real estate projects, and debt trading.

Moreover, Francesco represents clients in bankruptcy-related litigation and protection of creditors' rights. In recent years, Francesco has significantly developed a substantial experience in the field of financial restructuring, assisting main operators and institutions in the field.

Francesco regularly receives recognition from prominent legal directories as a notable practitioner in the area, including Chambers & Partners, and clients praised him for his ''very strong commercial awareness and extremely sophisticated technical skills".