Gregorio Consoli > Chiomenti > Milan, Italy > Lawyer Profile

Chiomenti‘s large department was recently active advising institutions involved in leveraged finance transactions, as well as financings covered by state guarantees. Gregorio Consoli heads the finance and regulated entities department, which includes Giulia Battaglia, who specialises in structuring complex deals, and financial transactions expert Giorgio Cappelli. Also integral to the practice are senior of counsel Francesco Ago, restructuring unit head Antonio Tavella, and finance and real estate specialist Luca Bonetti. Riccardo Rossi is an experienced managing counsel, while Gianrico Giannesi recently joined as partner from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe.

Chiomenti‘s finance and regulated entities department routinely acts on complex and cutting-edge structured finance deals; its recent experience includes large-value securitisation transactions. Team leader Gregorio Consoli assists Italian and international clients with extraordinary transactions, and is particularly focused on those involving financial entities and regulated sectors; Giulia Battaglia specialises in structuring complex deals; and former partner Francesco Ago has been senior of counsel since 2019. Securitisation and bond loan expert Gianrico Giannesi recently joined as partner from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, while DCM specialist Benedetto La Russa became partner in 2021.

Chiomenti‘s sizeable banking and finance department fields market-leading specialists in project and real estate finance, restructuring and insolvency, and private wealth, trusts and estates. It is also one of the few Italian law firms that has English law capacity. Gregorio Consoli heads the finance and regulated entities department, which includes highly regarded partners Giulia Battaglia, Giorgio Cappelli, Antonio Tavella, Luca Bonetti, Carola Antonini and Marco Cerritelli. Gianrico Giannesi joined in 2020 from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, where he was Italy banking and finance head.