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Watson, Farley & Williams LLP

PIAZZA NAVONA, 49, 2ND FLOOR, INT 2/3, 00186, ROME, ITALY

Singapore, Rome, Rome, Piraeus, Paris, New York and 8 more

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What we say about the firm's legal practice in Italy

Administrative law

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Banking and finance

Within Banking and finance, tier 4

Studio Legale Associato a Watson, Farley & Williams ‘provides prompt, effective support under all circumstances’. The group advised Intesa Sanpaolo and MPS Capital Services on a $70m loan for PB Norge AS to part-finance eight sea-river tanker vessels. In Rome, the ‘knowledgeable and hardworking’ Furio Samela specialises in shipping and finance with an emphasis on financial transactions, loan agreements, security packages, restructuring and insolvency, as well as derivatives. Milan-based Francesco Curreli advises domestic and international lenders, borrowers, and equity investors on acquisition finance, real estate finance, mezzanine finance, structured finance, project finance and restructuring.

Corporate and M&A: Milan and Rome

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Energy

Within Energy, Watson, Farley & Williams LLP is a third tier firm,

Studio Legale Associato a Watson, Farley & Williams has ‘an impressive knowledge of the market’. It advised Solergy/Megasol on the project financing of a photovoltaic system in Montalto di Castro, now the second largest in Italy. Rome-based Eugenio Tranchino is ‘just brilliant’, and ‘always goes the extra distance’, and Elvezio Santarelli is ‘knowledgeable about renewables’. Luca Pardi is also praised.

Tax

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