Leveraged finance specialist Iacopo Canino and private credit and direct lending-focused Bianca Caruso are prominent members of the practice at Hogan Lovells International LLP. A variety of borrowers engage the team for assistance with everything from acquisition and corporate financing to real estate, asset-based and leveraged transactions. Carlo Massini‘s areas of expertise include RE, project, asset and international trade finance, and Patrizio Messina handles banking and structured finance issues. ’Fantastic advisor’ Mauro Saccani is another key figure in the team, as is Sabrina Setini, who advises borrowers on various lending arrangements. Alessandro Accrocca assists clients with lending arrangements such as syndicated loans, structured liquidity lines and more.
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- ‘Highly skilled. Great attention to clients' needs.'
- ‘I had the opportunity to work with the banking and finance team of Hogan Lovells. The team demonstrates outstanding expertise in financial matters, with particular strength in financing. They are proactive and provide comprehensive, high-quality support. The team is highly responsive, collaborative, and consistently focused on achieving the successful completion of transactions, including in complex negotiations.’
- ‘Bianca Caruso is highly competent, has in-depth knowledge of market practice, and is well known and respected in the market. She has proven to be approachable and available. She is attentive to maintaining the balance between the parties in negotiations and keen to reach reasonable compromises, always ensuring the protection of her client’s position.’
- ‘I work often with Iacopo Canino and Bianca Caruso who are a very strong and synergetic duo. Well respected in the market and easy to work with. Strong ethics and knowledge.’
- ‘Hogan Lovells is clearly hiring some of the most well known professionals in the Italian market with strong expertise despite being relatively young. They have a strong market perspective, excellent connections both in the EU and in the US among the finance community and excellent technical skills.’
- ‘Our man to go to for many finance/debt requests is Mauro Saccani who is a fantastic advisor for any need that may arise during a deal from any perspective. He has been able to provide us with very quick and smart advice on a complex cross-border financing and literally guided us through the turbulences of a multi-jurisdictional financing. Also our business team always encourages me to hire him for his outstanding capacity to understand business needs in negotiations.'
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Alessandro Accrocca; Iacopo Canino; Bianca Caruso; Carlo Massini; Patrizio Messina; Mauro Saccani; Sabrina Setini