Mr Gianpaolo Garofalo > Dentons > Rome, Italy > Lawyer Profile

Dentons
VIA XX SETTEMBRE, 5
ROME 00187
Italy
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Work Department

Banking and Finance; Structured Finance

Position

Gianpaolo Garofalo is a partner in Denton’s Rome office and a member of the global Banking and Finance practice.

He assists clients, including leading national and international banks and investment funds, providing advice on financial, regulatory, corporate and contractual legal issues.

Gianpaolo has significant experience in structured finance, capital markets and banking, and has worked on numerous securitization and asset-backed transactions, bank financings, public offerings, EMTN debt programs and Italian local entities transactions.

He also provides advice on Italian banking and financial services regulation, with particular reference to derivatives contracts, equity transactions, CRR and MiFID 2 regulations. He has also gained considerable experience in liability management and financial debt restructuring transactions. Furthermore, Gianpaolo assists both local and regional authorities and potential or existing investors in the field of public finance, as well as in the context of structured finance transactions involving public debt or other claims vis-à-vis public authorities and administrations.

Career

Before joining Dentons, he worked for two years in the London office of the Italian law firm Bonelli Erede Pappalardo LLP. Prior to that, he spent more than 10 years at Allen & Overy.

Languages

- Italian
- English
- Spanish

Memberships

Admitted to the Bar, Rome, 2003

Education

LUISS Guido Carli University, Rome, 1999, JD

Lawyer Rankings

Italy > Capital markets: Debt

Delivering ‘a wide array of solutions for clients’, Dentons‘ debt capital markets and structured finance practice advises on standalone bond issuances, EMTN programmes, retail offers, commercial papers, debt securities-related purchase and exchange offers, and green, social and sustainable bonds. Piergiorgio Leofreddi is a debt capital markets and structured finance expert; Annalisa Feliciani advises on a range of financial instruments; and Gianpaolo Garofalo is structured finance head. The group also includes structured finance and debt issuance practitioner Bianca Chiara Sinisi, who advises on securitisation, covered bonds, bond issuances and structured finance.