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Global law firm Hogan Lovells announced that a Corporate & Finance team will join the firm based in Milan, Italy. This new team consists of 5 partners:
– Ferigo Foscari
– Canino Iacopo
– Alessandro Seganfreddo
– Piero de Mattia
– Bianca Caruso
This new team focuses on M&A, private equity, capital markets, leveraged finance, and private credit, offering significant additional strength to the firm’s transactional capabilities in Italy and EMEA. And this also represents another important investment in the firm’s Italian practice: Hogan Lovells has now welcomed over 50 people to its Italian practices in the last year alone.
Ferigo Foscari is a leading lawyer in securities and M&A transactions and has strong public M&A experience. He also has extensive capital markets experience, advising issuers and investment banks on equity and debt offerings. In the ECM area, he has advised on a wide range of IPOs, secondary offerings, and block trades. In the DCM area, he has significant experience in Eurobonds, Euro private placements, covenanted Eurobonds, EMTN, and GMTN programs for Italian issuers.
Iacopo Canino is widely known as a leading finance lawyer and has worked on a large number of the most representative financing transactions in the Italian market over the past decades, including numerous bank financings, private credit, and high-yield transactions. And he is particularly versed in complex cross-border transactions and in leveraged finance. Iacopo has extensive experience and focus on private credit and direct lending, having been at the forefront of this fast-growing market since its emergence in Italy.
Alessandro Seganfreddo is recognized in private equity, M&A, and capital markets. And he regularly assists Italian and international private equity sponsors, strategic players, and investment banks on cross-border and domestic transactions in a number of sectors – including healthcare, life sciences, infrastructure, financial services, industrial, consumer, technology, media, and telecommunications.
Piero de Mattia is a dual qualified lawyer (Italy and New York) with over 20 years of experience in capital markets, corporate and M&A. His practice also focuses on IPOs,rights issues, ABBs, RABBs, SBB, convertible and EL bonds, tender offers, private and public M&A transactions. In addition, he provides guidance to issuers and financial institutions on corporate governance and regulatory matters, including MAR and transparency.
Bianca Caruso has 15+ years of experience in debt finance and general corporate and commercial law. She assists credit providers, borrowers/issuers, and private equity sponsors on financing transactions, with a particular focus on corporate finance, leveraged finance, acquisition finance, and real estate finance transactions. Bianca has significant expertise in private credit, direct lending, and high-yield transactions.
After the new team is integrated, Hogan Lovells Italy will have about 140 lawyers, including 31 partners.
KEY QUOTES:
“We continue to bring in high performing partners in key markets such as Italy who value the uniqueness of the Hogan Lovells offering – a fully integrated global elite firm, high quality service, in-depth sector knowledge and breadth of practice. Investing in Italy and the wider FRIS region – France and Spain – is a core element of our strategy. This is an important region for our global firm – our people in Paris, Madrid, Rome, and Milan work closely with many of the firm’s most important clients on some of the most complex work, not only in the region but around the globe.”
- Hogan Lovells CEO Miguel Zaldivar
“The new group will complement our existing Corporate & Finance teams in Milan and Rome, and will support our approach to delivering excellence in the key hubs across EMEA. The team further enhances one of the largest fully integrated global platforms for complex M&A, private equity, leveraged finance, and capital markets of any law firm.”
- James Doyle, Head of the Corporate & Finance practice at Hogan Lovells
“I am delighted to welcome colleagues Ferigo Foscari, Iacopo Canino, Alessandro Seganfreddo, Piero de Mattia and Bianca Caruso to Hogan Lovells as we celebrate the 25th anniversary of our presence in Italy this year. The arrival of the new group will further strengthen our practice in Italy and is in line with our commitment to providing sophisticated support to clients across Italy and beyond.”
• ⁃ Patrizio Messina, Managing Partner for Italy
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