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Linklaters LLP Offices
ONE SILK STREET
LONDON
EC2Y 8HQ
England
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Giacomo Reali
Work Department
Banking, Leveraged Finance
Position
Giacomo Reali is a US-qualified partner who focuses on high yield bonds and leveraged finance transactions across Europe.
Giacomo has extensive experience representing financial institutions, private equity sponsors and corporates in cross-border financing transactions, including high yield bond offerings, acquisition and bridge financings, pre-/post-IPO financings, private placements and liability management transactions.
In addition, Giacomo also has a particular expertise in preferred equity and distressed financings.
Over the course of his career, Giacomo has worked on several market-leading transactions, including advising on the financings for Altice International, Anheuser-Busch InBev, Block Communications, Cabot Financial, Cerba, CMA CGM, CMC-Ravenna, Colfax, Consolidated Minerals, EnQuest, European Investment Bank, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Global Closure Systems, Harbour Energy, HudBay Minerals, Impax Laboratories, Klöckner Pentaplast, Labco, Limacorporate, Picard Surgelés, Pro-Gest, Scientific Games, Signature Aviation, SISAL, TeamSystem, Tekni-Plex, Tereos, Virgin Media, and WillScot-Mobile Mini.
Lawyer Rankings
London > Finance > High yield
Linklaters LLP has ‘great expertise across the board and is very much on top of market developments, while being accessible‘. Clients praise the ‘availability, competence, willingness to go the extra mile, and deep knowledge of market players and trends‘. The firm is particularly active in private equity-sponsored M&A transactions. ‘They have outstanding technical skills but also are deeply commercial‘, say clients of practice head Alexander Naidenov
, who advised Triton portfolio company Crayfish on debt financing for its €1.2bn offer for Finnish company Caverion. Giacomo Reali – who provides ‘outstanding service‘ – assisted initial purchasers of LimaCorporate’s €295m bond issuance. US partner Colin Chang also plays a key role in the practice, representing underwriters, issuers and private equity sponsors in high yield offerings. Former co-practice head Noel Hughes left the firm in December 2023.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Acquisition finance
- Finance > Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Risk advisory > Corporate governance
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- Finance > Debt capital markets
- Finance > Derivatives and structured products
- Industry focus > Emerging markets
- Employment > Employee share schemes
- Employment > Employers
- Real estate > Environment
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – mid-large cap
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Fintech
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: M&A and acquisition financing
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: Project finance and development
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Upper Mid-Market And Premium Deals, £750m+
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Mining and minerals
- Employment > Pensions (non-contentious)
- Employment > Pensions: dispute resolution
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Power (including electricity, nuclear and renewables)
- Transport > Rail
- Investment fund formation and management > Real estate funds
- Finance > Securitisation
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Water
Firm Rankings
- Corporate and commercial > Commercial contracts
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
- Dispute resolution > Competition litigation
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Finance > High yield
- Insurance > Insurance: corporate and regulatory
- Industry focus > Life sciences and healthcare
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions – high-value deals (£250m+)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private funds
- Real estate > Property finance
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- Finance > Trade finance
- Public sector > Administrative and public law
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Real estate > Construction: non-contentious
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: patents (contentious and non-contentious)
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Dispute resolution > Public international law
- Industry focus > Retail and consumer
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- Finance > Transport finance and leasing
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers