Banking and finance: lender or arranger side

Latham & Watkins LLP

Client Satisfaction

Latham & Watkins LLP's Italian lender-side banking practice routinely handles major acquisition and leverage finance deals, as well as corporate lending and debt restructuring. The Italian finance practice is headed by the firm’s recently-appointed finance department global vice-chair, Marcello Bragliani, who is a highly-rated leveraged finance specialist. The team also includes Antongiulio Scialpi, an adviser to commercial and investment banks at all stages of financings; and Alessia De Coppi, who has notable experience in cross-border financings involving tailor-made deal structures. Mario Orsenigo and Erika Brini Raimondi are additional key figures.

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Key clients

BNP Paribas
UniCredit
Bank of America
HPS
Arcmont
CVC Credit
KKR Credit
Barclays
Banca Akros
Gruppo Banco BPM
Deutsche Bank
Goldman Sachs
Tikehau
Credit Agricole
Intesa Sanpaolo

Work highlights

Advised a pool of lenders on arranging the financial agreements for the acquisition of a 50% stake in Massimo Zanetti Beverage Group by Italian private equity investor QuattroR.
Advised a pool of banks on the financing aspects of the launch by Esseco Industrial of a competing voluntary tender offer for all of Ercros’ share capital.
Advised the banks on the financing for the acquisition of FassiGroup by Investindustrial.