ADVANT Nctm's banking and finance department focuses primarily on project, acquisition and leveraged financing, as well as corporate and real estate finance. Other notable areas are shipping finance, debt restructuring, and green and sustainable finance. Heading up the team, Stefano Padovani routinely advises on extraordinary transactions; Eugenio Siragusa is a project finance expert; and Giovanni de’ Capitani di Vimercate acts for companies and private equity funds on major financings.

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Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • ‘Collaborative and proactive people.’

  • ‘Able to find solutions.’

  • ‘Accountability and attention to the client.'

  • ‘Giuseppe Buono and Roberto de Nardis di Prata are always very reliable.'

Key clients

  • Fincantieri S.p.A.
  • Radius Payment Solutions Bidco Limited
  • Julia Portfolio Solutions S.p.A.
  • Gas Plus S.p.A.
  • Crealis S.p.A.
  • Grimaldi Deep Sea S.p.A.
  • FVS SGR S.p.A.
  • Entangled Capital SGR
  • TXT e-Solutions S.p.A.
  • SACE
  • Cooperativa Muratori e Braccianti di Carpi (CMB)

Work highlights

  • Assisted Radius Payment Solutions Bidco with the Italian law aspects of a £460m financing, to be made available by a pool of lenders for the purpose of acquiring the existing Radius group.
  • Provided legal assistance to Julia Portfolio Solutions in relation to its reorganisation.
  • Providing ongoing legal assistance to Gas Plus, in relation to a senior secured reserved based loan granted by a pool of international and local banks to, inter alia, Gas Plus Dacia.

Lawyers

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Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Stefano Padovani

Other key lawyers

Riccardo Sallustio, Matteo Gallanti, Alfredo Lizio, Giuseppe Buono, Roberto de Nardis di Prata