Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Mergers and Acquisitions

Partner and a global head of the firm’s transactions practices

Lorenzo Corte serves as a global head of the firm’s transactions practices, focusing on its international offices, and as a member of its Policy Committee.

Mr. Corte advises clients on cross-border public and private M&A transactions. His experience includes several “market firsts” and encompasses contested takeovers in the U.S. and Europe, special committee representations, financial sponsor transactions, and private sales and acquisitions, and joint ventures. He also has significant experience advising a variety of public companies on complex corporate governance issues.

Throughout his career, Mr. Corte has acted on some of the most complex, closely watched and market-moving deals across multiple sectors and jurisdictions.

Mr. Corte regularly advises financial sponsors on their investments and divestments in Europe, and has completed a number of transactions in the technology, energy (including renewables), media and retail sectors.

He represents strategic investors in connection with cross-border acquisitions, joint ventures and sales of privately owned companies and assets in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the U.S. and the CIS region.

Throughout his career, Mr. Corte also has worked on a number of equity and debt capital markets transactions.

He lectures and participates in seminars related to his practice and is an adjunct professor in international M&A at Fordham Law School.

English, Italian.

Solicitor, England & Wales New York

LL.M., Columbia University School of Law, 1998 Dottore in Giurisprudenza, Universitá degli Studi di Milano, 1996