Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton’s Italian corporate M&A practice has a particularly strong track record in public M&A, as well as M&A deals involving the energy, infrastructure, transportation, TMT, financial institutions, and Pharma sectors. The principal practitioners are Giuseppe Scassellati-Sforzolini, who launched the firm’s Italian corporate practice in the early 1990s; M&A and restructuring expert Roberto Bonsignore; the ‘simply outstanding’ Matteo Montanaro; and David Singer, a regular adviser on domestic and M&A, private equity investments and venture capital transactions. Paolo Rainelli, Gerolamo da Passano and Lorenzo Freddi complete the team.
Testimonials
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‘Extremely competent, immediately responsive, and the answers to the various questions are always concrete and very useful.’
‘Their professionalism allows clients to resolve complicated issues and to achieve the goals set.’
Key clients
- Peninsula Capital
- Citi
Work highlights
- Advised Peninsula Capital on the acquisition, alongside 50/50 co-investment partner Alpha Private Equity, of equity stakes held by various sellers that represented over 50% percent of the voting rights of Prima Industrie.
- Assisted Satispay with its Series D round, in which the scale-up attracted new investments for approximately €320m.