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Alessandro Dubini

Alessandro Dubini is a partner in Dentons Milan office and co-head of the Corporate M&A practice in Italy. He mainly advises major industry groups, leading financial institutions and private equity funds on both domestic and international extraordinary transactions regarding mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and corporate reorganization. He also gained considerable experience in IPOs, tender offers, corporate and commercial law, banking and finance, as well as on corporate governance matters and commercial contracts.

Alessandro Engst

Alessandro Engst is a partner in the Banking & Finance practice and the Head of the Financial Services area in Italy. Alessandro focuses on financial institutions regulation, derivatives and investment funds. He has a broad range of experience advising banks, fund managers, broker-dealers, investment firms, insurance companies, payment institutions, fintech companies and pension funds on the establishment and regulation of investment funds (including NPL and private debt funds), on a wide range of derivative transactions and on regulatory matters (including advising on MIFID II, CRR/CRD IV, UCITS V, EMIR, IDD, PSD2 and ELTIF regulation). He is the author of various banking and finance law manuals and scientific articles.

Alessandro Fosco Fagotto

Alessandro Fosco Fagotto is a partner in Dentons’ Milan office and Head of the Italian Banking and Finance practice and Europe Head of the Banking and Finance practice. He gained great experience in advising lenders (his clients are almost all the most representative Italian banks, international banks providing financial support in Italy), financial sponsors (private equity and private debt funds), investors, other financial institutions and borrowers, in connection with a very broad range of financing transactions, including acquisition and leveraged finance, structured finance, real estate finance, general corporate lending and refinancing. His experience also covers debt restructuring transactions, in particular, transactions designed to preserve the going concern (i.e. consolidation agreements, restructuring agreements, distressed M&A, sale of bank credits), as well as in all kinds of financing to be granted to distressed companies (bridge finance, interim finance and finance granted in the framework of restructuring plans). He also assists industrial groups interested in investing in distressed companies, in all consolidation path steps. He is broadly acknowledged as one of the leading finance lawyers in Italy for his long-time presence (15 years) in the Italian debt market.

Andrea Fiorelli

Andrea Fiorelli is a partner in Dentons’ Milan office and Head of the Tax practice in Italy. He advises on the tax aspects of corporate and financial transactions. Andrea has extensive experience in advising on: the fiscal treatment of financial products and UCITS (harmonized and non-harmonized); international taxation and planning; tax issues arising in the context of corporate finance and merger and acquisition transactions; the taxation of individual assets; and tax litigation.

Annalisa Feliciani

Annalisa Feliciani is a debt capital markets partner in Dentons’ Rome office and a member of the global Banking and Finance practice. She provides legal assistance to major Italian and international banks, financial institutions and companies in connection with the structuring, offering and listing of a wide range of financial instruments for both retail and institutional investors. These include: fixed income products (Eurobonds and domestic bonds); structured notes, warrants and certificates; credit and fund-linked securities; mini-bonds and commercial papers (including STEP compliant); and ESG products (social, sustainability and green bonds). She assists in the establishment and update of issuance programs and stand-alone issuances (public deals and private placements); retail public offers in Italy; debt capital markets and liability management transactions. Annalisa is experienced in the structuring of transactions and related regulatory issues. She provides high level transactional and regulatory advice vis-à-vis financial regulators (Consob, Bank of Italy, CSSF, Central Bank of Ireland), the main financial market lobbies, as well as Stock Exchanges and MTFs in Italy and in other European countries (e.g. Luxembourg and Ireland).

Antonella Brambilla

Antonella is a partner in Dentons' Milan office and a member of the global Corporate M&A practice. She advises listed and non-listed companies and professional investors on mergers and acquisitions, private equity and domestic and international corporate transactions, with a particular focus on the equity capital market sector. Antonella’s legal advice includes extraordinary transactions of listed companies in EU and extra EU regulated and non-regulated markets, public offerings, IPOs and takeover bids. Her assistance also covers corporate governance matters as well as capital market aspects of restructuring transactions.

Antonio Legrottaglie

Antonio Legrottaglie is a partner in Dentons’ Milan office and a member of the global Corporate M&A practice. With a proven track record in M&A transactions, Antonio supports clients on a variety of matters, including acquisitions, divestitures and joint ventures. He mainly supports Italian and foreign private equity funds and club deals. Clients appreciate his proficiency in assisting founders and financial sponsors of build-up projects—supporting them both in the creation of the initial corporate structure and in the multiple acquisitions that are included in the project pipeline. Also active in the venture capital and start-up sector, Antonio regularly assists Italian and foreign investors in all types of investment rounds and in providing assistance to startups and scale-ups marked by strong technological development. In addition, he has many years of experience supporting clients in the healthcare and life sciences sectors.

Arnaldo Bernardi

Arnaldo Bernardi is a partner in Dentons’ Milan office and a member of the global Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice. He is part of the white-collar crime team in Italy. He regularly advises clients in the oil and gas, luxury, retail, telecommunications, and financial sectors on internal investigations, corporate compliance and business and human rights.

Barbara Urselli

Barbara is a partner in our Rome office and she is a member of the global Corporate M&A group.

Bianca Chiara Sinisi

Bianca Chiara Sinisi is a senior associate in our Rome office and a member of the global Banking and Finance practice. Specialized in structured finance and debt issuances, her main activities include legal advice in securitization transactions, covered bond programs, bond issuances, repos, securities lending, structured financial products and factoring. Furthermore, she assists clients in relation to debt restructuring and liability management transactions, with regard to both banks’ and financial intermediaries’ debt issuances and public entities’ debt. Bianca has also experience in ESG products (i.e. social, sustainable and green bonds, ESG securitisations and sustainability linked repo and securities lending transactions). She also provides advice on banking and financial regulation, with particular reference to the issues concerning BRRD, CRR, MiFID 2, ESG-products, securitisations and derivative instruments. Furthermore, Bianca 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.

Camilla Rosi

Camilla Rosi is a senior associate in our Milan office and a member of the global Intellectual Property, Data and Technology practice. She assists national and international clients in relation to both contentious and non-contentious intellectual property and copyright-related matters, with a focus on trademarks, patents, design, copyright, software and trade secrets. Camilla gained extensive experience in negotiating commercial arrangements pertaining to intellectual property rights, including license agreements, co-existence agreements, supply and distribution agreements, IP rights assignment agreements and in the assistance of both private clients and corporate institutions in the context of extraordinary transactions and IP related asset deal. She also advises clients on a broad range of IP-related judicial cases, including trademark, design and copyright infringement and unfair competition.

Carlo Merisio

Carlo Merisio is a partner in our Milan office and a member of the global Real Estate practice. He assists clients, both Italian and international, in relation to major domestic and cross-border investments. His assistance covers the full spectrum of asset classes and deal structures, including asset and share deals, sale and lease-back, joint ventures, forward-funding structures as well as real estate investment funds schemes. Carlo also regularly advises clients on the negotiation of construction agreements, in the context of new development projects.

Carsten Steinhauer

Dr. Carsten Steinhauer, LL.M. is a partner in Dentons’ Rome and Milan offices and Co-Head of Europe Energy Sector Group.

Chiara Bocchi

Chiara Bocchi is a counsel based in Dentons’ Milan office and a member of the global Intellectual Property, Data and Technology. Chiara assists national and multinational clients active in a number of different sectors including ICT, fashion, retail, e-commerce, advertising, media and telecommunications, as well as banking and insurance, in both contentious and non-contentious matters. She advises on commercial contracts (B2B and B2C) and on various legal issues concerning technology, media and telecommunications, focusing also on digital transformation and artificial intelligence. She is also experienced in data protection and holds the Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe (CIPP/E) certificate through the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). The activities in this field range from the drafting of compliance documents (e.g. privacy policies, organizational procedures, joint controllership and data processing agreements) and the organization of dedicated training on privacy matters, to the provision of strategic advice on complex issues and multi-jurisdictional projects (e.g. behavioral advertising, processing of biometric data, automatic individual decision-making processes, data transfers).

Cristian Fischetti

Cristian Fischetti is a partner in our Milan office and Head of the Italian Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy practice. Cristian assists clients dealing with complex distressed situations and debt restructuring processes, including turnaround and special situations investments, corporate reorganization plans, debt restructuring agreements, compositions of debts with creditors (in/out of court), M&A and financing of distressed target companies. He specializes in bankruptcy law and corporate restructuring, with a focus on debt restructuring agreements pursuant to art. 182-bis of the Italian Bankruptcy Law (“accordi di ristrutturazione dei debiti” - now art. 57 of the new Italian Insolvency Code), recovery plans pursuant to art. 67, co. 3, lett. d) of the Italian Bankruptcy Law (“piani attestati di risanamento” - now art. 56 of the new Italian Insolvency Code) and compositions of debts with creditors (“concordati preventivi”), both dismissive and with going concern. He also assists clients in bankruptcy proceedings and investors (as non-performing loan companies and turnaround funds) in bankruptcy agreements (“concordati fallimentari”). In addition, Cristian has extensive experience in corporate and commercial law. He also deals with the purchase and assignment of UTP/ NPL receivables, both portfolios and single name exposures. Cristian is enrolled in the List of Experts for the negotiated settlement of company crises pursuant to art 3, par. 3, of Law Decree no. 118/2021, amended by Law no. 147/2021, and subsequent amendments and additions, kept by the Chamber of Commerce of Milan, Monza Brianza and Lodi.

Davide Boffi

Davide Boffi is a partner in Dentons’ Milan office, Head of the Employment and Labor practice in Italy and Europe Head of Employment and Labor practice. Davide has significant experience in employment and labor law, as well as in agency contracts. He provides judicial and extrajudicial assistance, advising clients on the full range of national and international employment and labor law, including: negotiation with trade unions and individuals, corporate restructurings, individual and collective dismissals, transfers of undertakings, internal audit and due diligence connected to mergers and acquisitions. He also advises on drafting incentive plans, retention plans, stock option plans and bonus schemes for top managers and directors of publicly traded and private companies, as well as on drafting plant-level collective bargaining agreements with unions, employment and self-employment contracts, general settlement agreements. Davide’s assistance includes drafting privacy policies, internal procedures and disciplinary codes (also according to Legislative Decree no. 231 of 2001).

Davide Traina

Davide Traina is a partner in Dentons’ Milan office and a member of the global Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice. He gained significant experience in the real estate sector, assisting national and international clients in complex real estate transactions and in the establishment of funds, as well as in the pre-contentious and contentious phases of commercial transactions, also in case of arbitration. Davide frequently deals with real estate and corporate litigations, as well as with post-closing claims and disputes on real estate development transactions.

Edoardo Galeotti

Edoardo Galeotti is a managing counsel in our Milan office and a member of the global Banking and Finance practice. He advises clients such as leading domestic and international banks, financial institutions, private equity funds, private debt funds and corporations (also listed) in matters relating to, mainly, acquisition and leveraged finance, corporate and syndicated lending and real estate finance. He focuses, in particular, in complex domestic and cross-border leverage buy-out transactions involving banks and financial institutions. In addition, he advises clients (both financial institutions and companies) in matters relating to distressed situations and debt restructuring processes, turnaround and special situations investments, corporate reorganization plans, debt restructuring agreements, compositions of debts with creditors (in/out of court), financing of distressed target companies. He focuses, in particular, in debt restructuring agreements pursuant to art. 182-bis of Italian Bankruptcy Law (“accordi di ristrutturazione dei debiti”), recovery plans pursuant to art. 67, co. 3, lett. d) of Italian Bankruptcy Law (“piani attestati di risanamento”) and compositions of debts with creditors (“concordati preventivi”), both dismissive and with going concern.

Enrico Troianiello

Enrico Troianiello is a partner in our Milan office and a member of the global Corporate M&A practice.

Fabrizio Capponi

Fabrizio Capponi is a partner in Dentons' Italian offices, the head of International Tax in Italy and a member of the global Tax practice. Fabrizio specializes in corporate and tax law, assisting companies and large groups in complex financial transactions, corporate reorganizations and debt restructuring (reorganization agreements relating to distressed loans), as well as on private equity and M&A transactions. He also assists investment banks and securities firms, with a specific focus on taxation of financial products, and provides sellers and buyers with advice on tax due diligence. Fabrizio has handled some of the most important tax settlement and transfer pricing cases in Italy over the last few years. In August 2023, he was appointed as a member of the Technical Committee established by the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance for the implementation of the Tax Reform.

Federico Fusco

Federico Fusco is a partner in Dentons’ Milan office and a member of the global Intellectual Property, Data and Technology practice. He specializes in intellectual and industrial property matters and has gained significant expertise in handling national and cross border litigation concerning European and national patents, EU, International and national trademarks, trade secrets, designs, copyright and unfair competition. He also provides out-of-court assistance in connection with corporate transactions involving mainly intangible assets, licensing and technology transfer agreements, commercial collaboration and co-branding. He deals with copyright and related contracts, including software contracts, and represents companies in negotiations with collective rights management societies as well as in disputes before the Italian courts, civil and administrative courts and the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) concerning copyright levies, and in strategic advice concerning rights on press publications as defined by the Copyright Directive. His expertise includes advising Italian and international clients in high-end technology industries, such as automotive, energy, life sciences, but also in the luxury and consumer goods, publishing and entertainment sectors. Federico also gained relevant experience in advertising litigation and in advising Internet service providers in relation to possible infringements of third parties' rights by user-uploaded content.

Federico Sutti

Federico Sutti is Chairman of Dentons’ Europe Board and Italy Managing Partner. Federico has extensive experience in M&A transactions, particularly in the real estate sector, advising Italian and international clients on the acquisition of assets and portfolios, as well as relevant, complex developments. These include, in particular, some of the most prominent development transactions in the residential/office/retail (Aree Falck) as well as in the logistic sectors (Piacenza). In addition, he has carried out various brownfield transactions advising international investors operating in the hotel and/or office sectors. Federico has also advised the lenders in the context of the most relevant development projects in Italy, including the Citylife and Varesine projects, among others. His experience extends to the PFI/PPP sectors, where he has been pioneering the use of project finance techniques in the Italian and international infrastructure markets, with specific reference to the healthcare sector. In particular, he assisted the Veneto Region for several years. In addition, he advised the Ministry of Infrastructures in Turkey in relation to the development of the PFI structure model for hospitals. During the last several years he has assisted leading banks, Italian companies and multinationals in various restructuring and refinancing matters. Among the largest the turnaround of Mezzaroma Group, as well as of Parnasi Group. In November 2014, under the Prodi Law, Federico was appointed Commissionaire of Infocontact (a company with 1,800 employees operating in Southern Italy) by the Ministry of Industry.

Franco Paolo Gialloreti

Franco Paolo Gialloreti is a managing counsel in our Milan office and a member of the global Banking and Finance practice. He advises clients such as leading domestic and international banks, financial institutions, private equity funds, private debt funds and corporations (also listed) in matters relating to, mainly, acquisition and leveraged finance, corporate and syndicated lending, real estate finance, as well as debt restructuring. He focuses, in particular, in complex domestic and cross-border leverage buy-out transactions involving banks and financial institutions.

Giangiacomo Olivi

Giangiacomo Olivi is a partner in Dentons’ Milan office and Europe Co-head of Intellectual Property, Data and Technology Group. He assists clients, such as national and international companies as well as industrial associations, providing strategical and commercial legal advice in relation to technology, media and communications matters, with a specific focus on data management and digital transformation. Giangiacomo handled some of the most relevant matters in relation to data protection, data privacy and GDPR compliance (including coordinating major projects from Italy also involving multiple jurisdictions). He also assists clients with regard to outsourcing and commercial transactions in a wide range of sectors. Giangiacomo is renowned as one of the best TMT lawyers in Italy.

Gianmarco Tortora

Gianmarco Tortora is a partner in our Milan office and a member of the global Tax practice.

Gianpaolo Garofalo

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.

Ginevra Biadico

Ginevra Biadico is a managing counsel in Dentons’ Milan office and a member of the Project, Energy and Infrastructure business unit in Italy. She is also part of the global Banking and Finance practice. She is experienced in administrative law with a specific focus on the energy and infrastructure sectors. Ginevra assists clients with both contentious and noncontentious matters, regularly advising international and Italian lenders, funds, investors, developers, employers and contractors on a wide variety of issues relating to energy and infrastructure projects. In particular, she has worked on a variety of renewable energy projects (including photovoltaic, wind farm, biogas, biomass and hydroelectric, solar rooftop and greenhouse, natural gas cogeneration, water desalination, energy storage and energy efficiency, landfill) as well as infrastructure projects (including hospital, roads, highways and schools). Ginevra has also navigated clients through private and public tender procedures as well as representing clients in litigation proceedings in the renewable energy sector. She is known for her work on many high-profile national and cross-border project finance and M&A transactions.

Giovanni Diotallevi

Giovanni is a partner in Dentons’ Rome office and a member of the Project, Energy and Infrastructure business unit in Italy. He is also part of the global Banking and Finance practice. He focuses on project finance matters, particularly in relation to infrastructure, transportation, energy, telecommunication and water sectors. He is also experienced in export finance, acquisition finance, public utilities, bond issues, as well as debt restructuring and distressed assets. During his career, Giovanni has been involved in several benchmark deals, including a number of "first-of-a-kind” products/structures in Italy.

Giulia Giordano

Giulia Giordano is a senior associate in Dentons’ Rome office and is a member of the global Competition & Antitrust practice. Giulia advises on Italian and European antitrust law, state aid law and consumer law, including competition litigation before the Italian Competition Authority and administrative courts as well as before the General Court of the European Union. She also has experience in carrying out the assessment and notification of merger transactions as well as the assessment and notification of foreign direct investments (Golden Powers). She also deals with antitrust audit activities and compliance programs.

Ilaria Gobbato

Ilaria is a Partner in Dentons' Milan office and a member of the Public Law and Regulatory practice. She deals with public law assisting (in and out the Court) private clients in all the matters involving public entities. She has a deep knowledge of the infrastructure and health care sector. She focuses on public procurement matters, assisting clients that participate in Italian public procurement bids for supply, services, concession of public service, construction and management under project financing, as well as in entrusting of local public services, providing legal assistance in relation to the various phases of the tender procedure and the performance of the awarded agreement. Moreover, with specific reference to the Life Sciences sector, Ilaria has also gained an extensive experience in the health care and pharmaceutical sector, with specific reference to the Life Sciences sector, the authorization and accreditation decree, dealing with all the issues related to their transfer in the field of corporate transactions involving private facilities providing health and socio-medical services (as part of the national health system) and the so-called pharmaceutical pay-back.

Jacopo Brambilla Sica

Jacopo Brambilla Sica is a partner in Dentons’ Milan office and a member of the global Public Law and Regulatory practice. Jacopo has developed extensive experience in administrative law with particular regard to town planning, building, environmental law and complex and negotiated planning. He regularly advises institutional investors and developers on town planning matters and authorization procedures, as well as on urban and environmental verification and framing activities. His clients include major funds, asset management companies and companies in the real estate sector.

Junyi Bai

Junyi Bai is a partner in Dentons’ Milan office, Head of Italy-China Collaboration Group and a member of the global Corporate M&A practice. His practice focuses on Italian corporate and commercial law, mergers and acquisitions, foreign direct investments, as well as on the legal system of the People's Republic of China. In particular, Mr. Bai provides clients, including listed and/or state-owned companies, with legal advice on cross-border M&A transactions. Junyi is experienced in a number of different sectors, including automotive, machinery, medical and pharmaceutical, aerospace, luxury, food and beverage, transportation, real estate and e-commerce.

Lorenzo Toppini

Lorenzo Toppini is a counsel in the Banking and Finance practice, focusing on derivatives and structured products, as well as on financial markets regulation. He gained experience in the negotiation of derivatives, repo, stock lending and securitization transactions, corporate finance, project finance, leveraged finance and financial-insurance products, as well as in the structuring of unit-linked products and innovative financial instruments. Lorenzo advises financial institutions, insurance companies, asset managers, pension funds and social security institutions and provides assistance in connection with regulatory issues, including EMIR, Dodd-Frank Act, BRRD, SFTR, MiFID II and Brexit.

Luca De Menech

Luca De Menech is a Partner of Dentons’ Milan office and a member of the global Employment and Labor practice. Luca is specialized in labor and trade union law and he provides legal assistance to Italian and international companies operating in various industries, including the chemical, pharmaceutical, engineering, fashion, transport and services sectors. He has gained significant experience in relation to all labor law matters concerning the ordinary and extraordinary management of companies, with particular reference to bankruptcy procedures and corporate reorganizations. He deals with both contentious and non-contentious work.

Luca Pocobelli

Luca Pocobelli is a partner in Dentons' Milan and Rome offices and a member of the global Corporate and M&A practice. Luca has a comprehensive expertise including M&A and private equity, general corporate representation and real estate, advising clients on the participation to competitive bids, spin-offs and de-merger proceedings, drafting and negotiating, on either seller or buyer side, sale and purchase, joint venture and shareholders agreements, transfer of going concerns and commercial contracts. He has also extensive experience in advising major Italian and international operators in connection with all aspects of deals in the Life Sciences and Healthcare sector, ranging from corporate, to regulatory and litigation issues. Furthermore, he has advised several major clients in real estate transactions, including the purchase or sale of real estate portfolios, the establishment of real estate funds or joint ventures in connection with real estate deals and the negotiation of real estate commercial contracts, and has also gained considerable experience in restructuring and debt rescheduling transactions.

Luigi Costa

Luigi Costa is partner in Dentons’ Milan office, Head of the Project, Energy and Infrastructure business unit in Italy and a member of the global Banking and Finance practice.

Maria Paola Serra

Maria Paola Serra is a managing counsel in our Milan office and a member of the Global Tax practice. She focuses on private wealth, family office services, trusts and estate, contracts, corporate law. She provides legal assistance to high net worth individuals in terms of inheritance and estate planning, wealth management and asset protection, transition of the family’s business to next generations. She is a qualified family officer registered with the Registry ex lege 4/2013, MISE list.

Maria Sole Insinga

Maria Sole Insinga is a partner in our Milan office and a member of the global Real Estate practice since the firm opened in Italy. Since the early 2000s, Maria Sole Insinga has been working in the real estate sector, providing assistance to leading Italian and international operators (asset management companies, investors, real estate funds, AIFM passports, credit funds and banks) in relation to a wide range of transactions, including acquisitions and disposals (assets and share deals), bid procedures, structuring of new investments in Italy, real estate portfolio reorganizations, redevelopment and development projects, repossessment and post-acquisition management of real estate portfolios. In particular, she has extensive experience in the office, retail and hotel sectors.

Matteo Chinaglia

Matteo Chinaglia is a senior counsel in our Milan office and a member of the global Tax practice. He advises on M&A transactions (tax due diligence; structuring of acquisition for multinational and national groups) and international taxation (crossborder transactions; withholding tax application and double tax treaties application; advice on permanent establishment).

Matteo Vizzardi

Matteo Vizzardi is a partner in Dentons' Milan office and a member of the global Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice. He is part of the white-collar crime team in Italy. He specializes in corporate criminal law, bankruptcy law, financial markets, corporate criminal liability, cybercrime, criminal tax law, environmental criminal law, and workers’ health and safety. Matteo advises several Italian and multinational groups in many sectors (chemicals, energy, pharmaceuticals, luxury goods, telecommunications, distribution, industrial production, etc.) both with regard to compliance issues and in criminal proceedings, assisting both the company and its representatives as defendants or civil parties in complex criminal proceedings. He is a member of Supervisory Boards pursuant to Italian Legislative Decree 231/2001 in companies belonging to Italian and multinational groups.

Michele Carpagnano

Michele Carpagnano is a partner in Dentons’ Rome office and Head of the Competition and Antitrust practice in Italy. Michele provides national and multinational companies with legal advice and judicial assistance in all aspects of Italian, Spanish and EU competition law, consumer law, state aid law, merger control, public procurement and regulatory issues. He represents national and multinational companies as well as public institutions in administrative proceedings before the Italian Competition Authority and administrative courts. He also represents clients in competition/consumer laws litigation - both single and class actions claims - before Italian courts. He advised local, national and EU institutions on legislative/regulatory proposals related to competition and consumer laws. Michele assists clients in the design and implementation of tailored antitrust and consumer law compliance programs.

Mileto Mario Giuliani

Mileto Mario Giuliani is a partner in Dentons' Rome and Milan offices and a member of the Project, Energy and Infrastructure business unit in Italy.

Pasquale Annicchiarico

Pasquale Annicchiarico is a Partner in Dentons Milan office and a member of the global Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice. He leads the white-collar crime team in Italy. He specializes in all matters of criminal law and white-collar crime and he has more than 25 years’ experience in crimes against the public administration, environmental criminal law, criminal tax law and bankruptcy. Among his most significant cases, he was involved in the well-known ILVA trial, which is the most important environmental trial ever held in Italy, and he has been assisting the Riva Group before the Courts of Milan and Taranto since 2014. In addition to national and international companies, he assists local authorities and public executives in relation to crimes against the public administration.

Pier Francesco Faggiano

Pier Francesco Faggiano is one of the founding partners of Dentons in Italy and co-head of the Corporate M&A practice in Italy.

Pierandrea Bonali

Pierandrea Bonali is a partner in our Milan office and a member of the global Banking and Finance practice. He advises clients in the banking and financial sectors with particular capabilities in the real estate and property finance markets. His activities include advising banks and credit institutions on financings, negotiating and granting mortgage loans for the acquisition, redevelopment and development of real estate assets.

Piergiorgio Leofreddi

Piergiorgio Leofreddi is a partner in Dentons’ Milan office and he is Head of Debt Capital Markets Group in Italy. Piergiorgio has extensive experience in assisting Italian and international banks and companies in relation to debt capital markets and structured finance transactions, including Euro Medium Term Note issuance programmes (and transactions under the abovementioned programmes), stand-alone transactions, retail offers, purchase and exchange offers related to debt securities and related regulations. He also has significant regulatory experience and represents clients in their relations with regulators and stock exchanges, including Consob, Italian Stock Exchange, Luxembourg Stock Exchange and Irish Stock Exchange.

Roberta Moscaroli

Roberta Moscaroli is a partner in Dentons’ Rome office and a member of the global Tax practice. Roberta has extensive experience advising national and international companies and groups, financial institutions and investment funds in relation to M&A, deal structuring, banking and private equity transactions, covering a wide range of sectors, including IT, communications, media, fashion, design, medical and paramedical sector, energy, water, transportation, shipping, banking and insurance. She serves as a Member of the Board of Statutory Auditors of several Italian companies.

Roberto Lipari

Roberto Lipari is a partner in Dentons’ Rome office and a member of the global Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice. Roberto has extensive experience in litigation and international arbitration and regularly represents sovereign entities, as well as domestic and foreign clients in a broad range of disputes involving corporate, commercial, white-collar crime, investigation, investment and financial matters across different industries and jurisdictions. He has served as legal counsel for companies and sovereign states in numerous international commercial and investment arbitrations, under various procedural rules (e.g., UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules, ICC Arbitration Rules, Arbitration Rules of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, Arbitration Rules of the Netherlands Arbitration Institute).

Sara Poetto

Sara Poetto is a partner in our Milan office and a member of the global Real Estate practice. Sara has extensive experience in real estate law and regularly advises leading Italian and international operators in a wide range of transactions, including acquisitions and dismissals, both asset and share deals, redevelopment and development projects, repossession and post-acquisition management of real estate portfolios for various asset classes (including office, retail, logistics, hospitality and residential).

Silvia Pacchiarotti

Silvia is a counsel in our Milan office and a member of the global Corporate M&A practice. She advises international and Italian corporate clients as well as investment banks on a wide range of corporate, financial and regulatory matters, with a particular focus on equity capital market sector. Silvia’s legal advice include extraordinary transactions of listed companies in EU and extra EU regulated and non regulated markets, public offering, IPOs and takeover bid. She frequently assists listed companies in relation to general corporate and compliance matters.

Stefano Belleggia

Stefano Belleggia is a partner in Dentons' Milan office and a member of the global Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice. He focuses on litigation related to banking, financial and insurance law. He assists banking institutions, financial intermediaries and insurance companies in all phases of litigation, arbitration, as well as in proceedings instigated by supervisory authorities.

Stefano Ambrosioni

Stefano Ambrosioni is a partner in Dentons’ Milan office and a member of the global Corporate M&A practice. Stefano possesses wide-ranging experience in mergers and acquisition transactions with both listed and unlisted companies, in addition to his deep knowledge of corporate and general commercial law, partnerships and extraordinary corporate transactions. He regularly advises national and multinational companies in drafting and negotiating acquisition agreements, joint venture agreements, shareholders' agreements and commercial agreements in a variety of industries, including mechanical engineering, banking and finance, automotive, insurance, gaming, pharmaceutical, energy and real estate. Stefano also advises clients active in the private equity sector, focusing on investment transactions, leverage buyouts, management buyouts, exits and IPOs.

Tommaso Zanirato

Tommaso Zanirato is a counsel in our Milan office and a member of the global Banking and Finance practice. He advises clients including leading domestic and international banks, financial institutions, private equity funds, private debt funds and corporations (also listed) in matters relating to, mainly, acquisition and leveraged finance, corporate and syndicated lending and real estate finance, as well as debt restructuring. He focuses, in particular, on complex domestic and cross-border leverage buy-out transactions involving banks and financial institutions.

Valerio Lemma

Valerio Lemma is an of counsel in the Banking & Finance practice. He focuses on asset management, banking, financial and insurance regulation. Valerio has extensive experience in structuring and implementing investment funds (including credit and real estate funds) and regularly advises financial institutions and other regulated entities with respect to a broad range of regulatory matters and dealings with regulators. He is also highly experienced in the field of Fintech, Insurtech and digital payment services, where he provides assistance in relation to legal and regulatory issues. He authored several scientific papers and a monograph focused on the Fintech sector (“Fintech Regulation: Exploring New Challenges of the Capital Markets Union” Springer, 2020) and also participated in primary roundtables and conferences on this topic.

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