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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

Within: Leading individuals

Luca Picone - Hogan Lovells Studio Legale

Within: Commercial, corporate and M&A

Hogan Lovells Studio Legale combines specialist teams in TMT, IP, finance, employment, public law, antitrust and tax with the firm’s M&A expertise, which is often retained by clients in the energy, life sciences and consumer goods sectors. Italian M&A head Leah Dunlop and the ‘very accurate’Francesco Stella, together with a multi-jurisdictional, cross-practice team, advised Dana Incorporated on its acquisition of 80% of the global power-transmission and fluid-power businesses of Brevini Group, with an option to purchase the remaining 20%. Marco Rota Candiani is ‘clear, pragmatic and calm’ and Luca Picone and Antonio Di Pasquale are also highly regarded.

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Within: Private equity

Hogan Lovells Studio Legale’s ‘advice is always appropriate’. Francesco Stella assisted ORCA Developpement, majority owned by private equity fund IDI, with its acquisition of Fait Plast. Leah Dunlop and Luca Picone are the key advisers.

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