Lener & Partners is a boutique corporate and financial services firm that assists with setting up banks, asset management companies, investment firms, insurance companies, and financial intermediaries that provide regulated services. The team also assists with contentious and restructuring issues. Name partner Raffaele Lener heads up the group; Grazia Bonante specialises in banking, financial services, insurance and international finance law; and Sonia Locantore is a financial services and corporate law practitioner.

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Key clients

  • Cassa di Risparmio della Repubblica di San Marino
  • illimity Bank
  • Rothschild
  • Lufthansa
  • ACEA
  • Intesa Sanpaolo
  • Monte Titoli

Work highlights

  • Assisted Cassa di Risparmio della Repubblica di San Marino during the execution of a debt restructuring agreement (entered into by financial undertakings controlled by Cassa di Risparmio della Repubblica di San Marino).
  • Advised illimity Bank on the regulatory side to the set-up of a joint venture between illimity Bank and Banca Sella for the development of a digital banking services platform.
  • Assisted Intesa Sanpaolo with court proceedings initiated by the Comune di Perugia to have four interest rate swaps executed between the bank and the municipality declared invalid.

Lawyers

Leading partners
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Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Raffaele Lener

Other key lawyers

Grazia Bonante, Sonia Locantore