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Lawyers

Luigi Santa Maria

Work Department

Corporate

Position

Co-Managing Shareholder (Partner)

Career

Luigi Santa Maria, the co-managing shareholder of the Santa Maria office, focuses his practice on corporate law, including mergers and acquisitions, banking and finance, corporate governance, litigation, and arbitration.

His broad experience includes a wide range of multi-jurisdictional transactions including joint ventures, spin-offs, divestitures, leveraged buyouts, and U.S. and Italian restructurings. He advises high-profile clients in major cross-border M&A deals in the banking, energy, financial, health care, chemical, and manufacturing industries, and has assisted financial institutions in complex securities transactions, tender offers, and IPOs.

Luigi Santa Maria is the Founder of the Italian Desk in New York and practiced at Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP from 1997 to 2005. He is also the founder and was the managing partner of Studio Legale Santa Maria.

CapabilitiesCorporateBanking & Financial ServicesMergers & AcquisitionsInternational Arbitration & LitigationInternational TradeRestructuring & Bankruptcy

Admission to PracticeItaly (admitted to Supreme Court)

Languages

Italian, NativeEnglish, Fluent

Education

LL.M., Fordham University School of Law, 1993 J.D., summa cum laude, University of Milan, 1991

Mentions

Italy

Commercial, corporate and M&A