Diego Esposito > Linklaters Studio Legale Associato > Milan, Italy > Lawyer Profile
Linklaters Studio Legale Associato Offices
Via Fatebenefratelli, 14
20121 Milano
Italy
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Diego Esposito
Work Department
Banking and Finance
Position
Diego Esposito is a partner based in the firm’s Milan office but has also spent 6 months on secondment to the firm’s headquarters in London and 10 months on secondment to the firm’s Hong Kong office.
Diego specializes in acquisition and leveraged finance, syndicated lending, restructuring and structured finance, including High Yield bonds and SSRCF financing and private bonds structures. He has significant experience advising those on all sides of transactions, including arrangers, sponsors (including private equity sponsors), financing providers and borrowers in domestic and cross-border transactions.
Career
May 2023 to date: Partner, Linklaters
May 2022 – May 2023: Counsel, Linklaters
May 2016 – April 2022: Managing Associate, Linklaters Milan
September 2017 – June 2018: Managing Associate, Linklaters Hong Kong
May 2011 – April 2016: Associate, Linklaters Milan
September 2015 – March 2016: Associate, Linklaters London
November 2008 – May 2011: Trainee, Linklaters
Languages
Italian, English
Memberships
Admitted to the Italian Bar Association
Education
Diego graduated in law at Università Bocconi in Milan.
Personal
Diego is a regular participant in the firm’s CSR activities, including helping out on the community investment day at Banco Alimentare, an Italian organization that promotes the recovery and redistribution of food surpluses to charities and the less well-off.
Lawyer Rankings
Italy > Banking and finance: Borrower side
(Next Generation Partners)Linklaters Studio Legale Associato‘ borrower-side banking and finance team is consistently sought out to advise on high-end domestic and international finance deals, including acquisition, leveraged and syndicated finance. Other areas of strength range from real estate finance and financial structuring to restructuring, and asset and export finance. Heading the firm’s Italian banking and finance group, Andrea Arosio
is an acquisition and leveraged finance specialist, while Francesco Faldi has significant restructuring and insolvency experience. The practice also features Ettore Consalvi, Alessandra Ortelli, Marco Carrieri and Lilia Lani. Diego Esposito was promoted to partner in May 2023.
Italy > Banking and finance: lender or arranger side
Display an ‘outstanding level of competence and negotiation skills’, Linklaters Studio Legale Associato‘ banking and finance practice in Milan acts for financial institutions on a range of high-end, domestic and international finance transactions. Acquisition and leveraged finance deal expert Andrea Arosio heads up the team, which includes the firm’s Italy restructuring and insolvency head Francesco Faldi. Other key members include Ettore Consalvi, an adviser on global banking, acquisition and real estate financing, as well as Tessa Lee, Alessandra Ortelli, Diego Esposito and Marco Carrieri (both promoted, respectfully, to partner and counsel in May 2023), senior managing associate Lilia Lani and managing associate Alessandro Tanno.
Lawyer Rankings
- Banking and finance: Borrower side Italy
- Banking and finance: lender or arranger side Italy
- Next Generation Partners Italy > Banking and finance: Borrower side
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance: Borrower side
- Banking and finance: lender or arranger side
- Capital markets: Equity