Antonio La Porta > BonelliErede > Milan, Italy > Lawyer Profile

Consistently mandated by major credit institutions and financial institutions, BonelliErede‘s expertise encompasses acquisition, corporate, project, real estate and structured finance. Emanuela Da Rin heads up the banking and real estate focus groups. Antonio La Porta specialises in structured finance; Giuseppe Sacchi Lodispoto brings expertise to loan deals. Catia Tomasetti handles energy and project finance matters. The practice also features Gabriele Malgeri, who focuses on the negotiation of financial contracts and security packages; project finance specialist Giorgio Frasca; Giovanni Battaglia, who was promoted to partner in January 2024; and managing associate Federico Cocito.

A renowned Italian banking law practice for LBOs, and public bid and takeover financings, BonelliErede‘s sizeable team covers acquisition, corporate, property and structured finance, along with related regulatory issues. The group’s principal figures are Emanuela Da Rin, an expert in real estate, corporate and acquisition finance, and distressed asset-related operations; loan deal specialist Giuseppe Sacchi Lodispoto; and energy and ecological transition focus team leader Catia Tomasetti. Other names to note are project finance expert Giorgio Frasca and Gabriele Malgeri, along with Antonio La Porta, Giovanni Battaglia (who was promoted to partner in January 2024) and Federico Cocito.

BonelliErede‘s DCM team comprises experts in corporate debt instruments, medium-term notes, standalone eurobonds, domestic bonds, high-yield bonds and hybrid bonds. It also assists arrangers and originators with securitisation transactions, and acts for Italian banking groups to establish covered bond programmes. Massimiliano Danusso, a capital markets expert, heads the practice from London, and is supported by Emanuela Da Rin, who focuses on project bonds, bond issues and the securitisation of public administrations’ loans, and by structured finance specialist Antonio La Porta. Francesca Marchetti is another key team member to note.