White & Case (Europe) LLP‘s Milan-based team acts across the entire spectrum of finance products, including high-stakes leveraged financing transactions. Giuseppe Barra Caracciolo’s practice includes general lending, real estate and leverage finance, and debt restructuring; Iacopo Canino focuses on leveraged finance; Gianluca Fanti‘s experience includes real estate finance. Other key names to note are finance transactions specialist Francesco Scebba and corporate, leverage and acquisition finance practitioner Bianca Caruso, along with Tiziana Germinario and Stefano Bellani.

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Key clients

  • A2A
  • Acciaieria Arvedi
  • Acqua & Sapone
  • Adler Pelzer
  • Aeroporti di Roma
  • Alha Holding
  • Ali Group
  • Amplifon
  • Angelini
  • Autogrill
  • Autostrade per l’Italia
  • Barilla
  • BasicNet
  • Burgo Group
  • Cedacri
  • Coop Alleanza
  • CPL Concordia
  • Datalogic
  • Edizione Group
  • Enel
  • Esselunga
  • F.I.S. – Fabbrica Italiana Sintetici
  • Fingen
  • Ferrero International
  • Fratelli Beretta
  • Gemmo
  • GVS
  • Hippocrates Holding
  • Impresa Medica (Villa Benedetta Group)
  • Industrie De Nora
  • Isoclima
  • Italiaonline
  • Italo NTV
  • Irgenre Group
  • Kedrion
  • Libero Acquisition
  • Manuli
  • MFE - Mediaforeurope
  • Milanosesto
  • Modes
  • Mundys (former Atlantia)
  • OMA
  • Open Fiber
  • Piaggio & C.
  • Piovan
  • Proma Group
  • Recordati
  • Rina
  • Salini
  • Scalve
  • SIA
  • Sirti
  • Terna
  • TAS
  • Tecnica Group
  • Toscana Aeroporti
  • Trasporti Romagna
  • Valentino
  • VI-BA (Acciaierie Valbruna)
  • Apollo Global Management
  • Ares Management
  • BlackRock
  • Blackstone Credit (former GSO Capital Partners)
  • Brookfield
  • Carval Investors
  • Fidera
  • Magnetar
  • Muzinich & Co.
  • Oak Hill Advisors
  • Oaktree Capital Management
  • Pemberton Asset Management
  • Springrowth
  • Starwood Capital
  • The Carlyle Group
  • Tikehau Investment Management
  • VER Capital
  • 21 Investimenti
  • Antin Infrastructure Partners
  • Apollo
  • BC Partners
  • Clessidra
  • Cobepa
  • CVC Capital Partners
  • Centerbridge
  • Global Infrastructure Partners
  • KKR
  • Peak Rock Capital Partners
  • Peninsula Capital
  • Progressio
  • Trilantic
  • Triton
  • VER Capital
  • VGO Capital Partners
  • White Bridge Investments

Work highlights

  • Advised Edizione on a €1bn term and revolving facilities agreement with a pool of Italian and international lenders.
  • Advising Atlantia S.p.A. (now Mundys S.p.A.) on a €1.5bn sustainability-linked revolving facility agreement with a pool of lenders.
  • Advised Coop Alleanza on its €560m debt refinancing.

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Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Giuseppe Barra Caracciolo, Iacopo Canino, Bianca Caruso, Gianluca Fanti, Tiziana Germinario, Francesco Scebba

Other key lawyers

Stefano Bellani