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Luca Picone

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Luca Picone is a Corporate M&A partner at the Milan office of Hogan Lovells. Consistently acknowledged as a brilliant and innovative M&A expert, Luca has devoted his 20+ years' career to advising clients on domestic and cross-border transactions. Luca's extensive experience ranges from pure transactional work (asset and share deals, divestitures, tender offers, joint ventures and restructuring) to counselling board members and shareholders on complex corporate issues. His clients include industrial corporations, financial institutions and private equity funds operating in various sectors such as telecom, luxury, energy, food and infrastructure.

Career

Law Degree, Università degli Studi di Milano, 1992

Languages

English, Italian

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Italian Bar

Italy

Commercial, corporate and M&A

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Luca Picone - Hogan Lovells International LLP

Within: Commercial, corporate and M&A

Hogan Lovells International LLP has sector experience in energy, diversified industrials, financial institutions and life sciences as well as fashion and luxury, food and beverage, automotive and TMT. Francesco Stella advised BNP Paribas Cardif on the acquisition of a majority stake in Cargeas Assicurazioni, a non-life insurance company in Italy; Luca Picone assisted the sole shareholder of Italian company L'Aromatika, a manufacturer of coffee pods, capsules, beans and coffee concentrates and extracts, with the sale of a majority stake of its corporate capital to Italmobiliare; and Leah Dunlop and Antonio Di Pasquale acted forJAB Luxury on its disposal of a controlling stake in Bally, the Swiss luxury shoe and accessories firm. Marco Rota Candiani heads the real estate practice in Italy.

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Private equity

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Hogan Lovells International LLP provides the full range of services to private equity funds, including fund formation, acquisitions, portfolio company management and exits. Luca Picone, Francesco Stella, Leah Dunlop and Antonio Di Pasquale are the names to note.

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