Gatti Pavesi Bianchi Ludovici

Lawyer & team quality

Michele Aprile

Michele Aprile specialises in corporate and group taxation, taxation of individuals, taxation of financial instruments and financial transactions, taxation of real estate as well as international and EU tax law. He gained a significant expertise in advising investment funds. He is author of several publications on tax matters and he often speaks at tax conferences and lectures on post-graduate specialization courses.

Filippo Arena

Filippo Arena is the Head of the Economic Public Law department and focuses on European law, Administrative Law, Antitrust and Regulation, Consumer Protection, coordinating the firm’s practice areas. He was State Attorney and Secretary General of Italian Competition Authority (AGCM), where he first held the position of Legal Advisor and, subsequently, that of Head of Cabinet. During his professional activity, he has regularly represented the Italian State before the Court of Justice of the European Union in requests for preliminary rulings and infringement procedures. He has held various positions within the State Attorney General and the Ministry of Economic Development where he was also Head of the Legislative Office. He is a speaker at several national and international conferences in the field of Antitrust Law and Administrative Law.

Niccolò Baccetti

Niccolò’s practice focuses on M&A, corporate law, capital markets and corporate and commercial litigation. He is very well experienced in issuers’ corporate governance matters, as well as in extraordinary transactions in various industrial sectors, such as oil&gas, energy transition, infrastructure and transports, banks and real estate. Niccolò is a Full Professor of Corporate Law at the University of the Studies of Milan, Law School and is widely published across corporate, commercial and insolvency laws.

Franco Barucci

Franco advises both Italian and foreign companies in M&A transactions, capital markets and corporate law matters. In particular, he specializes in acquisitions and disposals of shareholdings and business, within the context of extraordinary transactions, involving listed companies and banks, as well as assisting them in corporate governance matters and in their relations with the Bank of Italy.

Luigi Arturo Bianchi

Luigi Arturo Bianchi is a full professor of corporate law at the Università Luigi Bocconi of Milan and has significant experience in corporate transactions. He advises regularly on mergers, acquisitions and transactions involving both private, public and listed companies. He is also a litigation and arbitration expert.

Michele Bissoli

Michele Bissoli deals mainly with corporate taxation, management incentive plans and international tax law. He has also gained significant experience in the management of tax litigation and out-of-court dispute resolution procedures.

Marco Bitetto

Marco Bitetto is an expert in private equity transactions, advising leading Italian and international funds on investment/acquisition and exit/divestment transactions, from deal structuring to execution. He also has a solid background in corporate law and is recognized for his expertise in providing counsel on M&A matters, assisting Italian and foreign clients as well as multinational corporations in their investments and divestments in Italy, as well as in joint ventures, commercial agreements, and corporate reorganizations, including those aimed at generational transition. His professional experience spans a wide range of industries, including technology, services, industrial machinery and equipment, fashion, luxury and design, food and beverage, and real estate.

Renato Bocca

Renato Bocca has significant experience in litigation and the management of highly complex disputes, with a particular focus on those related to extraordinary M&A, and environmental damage regulation. Admitted to practice before the Italian Supreme Court.

Nicola Bonante

Nicola Bonante specializes in all Labour Law and Industrial Relations-related matters, including employees’ benefits, stock option plans, MBO(s) and LTIP(s), reorganization and restructuring processes, on a domestic and international level. He also deals in Labour Law matters in connection with extraordinary corporate and private equity transactions.

Pietro Bricchetto

Pietro Bricchetto gained a significant experience in VAT and other indirect taxes. He advises Italian established and foreign companies operating in all economic sectors, focusing on VAT and indirect tax issues arising from both domestic and cross-border transactions, as well as restructuring and supply chain changes. He also acquired important experience in advising banks, financial intermediaries and collective investment funds investing in various types of alternative asset classes. Pietro is the author of several contributions on VAT matters which have been published on the major tax reviews and magazines and often speaks at post-graduate specialization courses and training courses.

Valentina Canalini

Valentina Canalini is specialized in the energy, transport and infrastructure sectors, assisting clients in corporate and M&A transactions as well as project finance and PPP contracts. She has more than ten years experience in assisting Italian and foreign clients (sponsors, developers, lenders. etc) in the various development phases (authorization proceedings, procurement process, operation and maintenance, etc) and in the financing of numerous infrastructure and energy projects as well as in the sale and purchase of plants for the production of energy, both from renewable and conventional sources. She assists public and private companies in relation to regulatory and administrative aspects in the regulated strategic sectors (including, for example, the legislation on the so-called, golden power). She has recently collaborated on various telecommunications, broadband and 5G operations. Graduated in law with honors from the Università degli Studi of Milan, she attended the University of California Berkeley as a Visiting Scholar in 2007 and achieved a PhD in Corporate law and Financial Markets at the Università di Bologna in 2014. From January 2017 to June 2018 she was appointed as Legal Advisor of the Prime Minister at Palazzo Chigi during the Gentiloni’s Government, where she had the opportunity to collaborate in the drafting and review of the main laws and decrees. Since May 2020, she’s a member of the Board of Directors of Terna S.p.A.. She collaborates with several universities, she is part of numerous “think tank” and she is the author of various legal publications.

Daniel Canola

Daniel Canola focuses on corporate and group taxation, IAS/IFRS taxation, national and cross-border M&A and business restructurings. He has also gained significant experience in the taxation of financing transactions and on international tax issues. He is the author of publications on tax matters. He joined GPBL in 2021 following the merger with L&P – Ludovici Piccone & Partners, a firm with which he has worked since 2017. He previously worked with PwC Tax and Legal Services for five years and with another leading international tax law firm for one year. He graduated in Economics at the University of Padua in 2011. He is admitted to the Association of Chartered Accountants of Milan since 2014.

Alessandro Cipriani

Alessandro focuses his activity on M&A transactions with particular focus in the banking sector, having assisted main Italian financial institutions in extraordinary transactions such as mergers, acquisitions and partnership setups in the asset management, consumer credit and bancassurance sectors. He advises listed companies and financial institutions on corporate governance and regulatory issues.

Rita Clemente

Rita Clemente joined the firm in September 2017. She has gained significant experience in pre-litigation and litigation, including arbitration, in civil and commercial law, specializing in complex disputes in corporate, financial, and banking matters (in particular, M&A transactions, securitizations, challenges to corporate resolutions, shareholders’ agreements, liability of issuers and intermediaries, liability actions against corporate bodies and for management and coordination, banking, financial, and insurance contracts). She also deals with issues of inheritance law and asset management, as well as issues that cut across the Firm’s other practices. She provides advice in civil and corporate matters, mainly to companies and collective investment undertakings. She graduated with honors in March 2001 with a thesis in corporate law from the University of Bari and was admitted to the bar in October 2004. She is currently a member of the Milan Bar Association.

Livia Cocca

Livia Cocca has significant experience in assisting both Italian and foreign clients in M&A transactions and corporate law matters. She has over fifteen years of experience in the infrastructure and energy sectors, where she has assisted leading infrastructure funds and industrial companies on the major transactions in the sector. In the field of private equity, she has handled complex M&A deals in the fintech, media, and technology sectors. Livia has worked with two leading Italian law firms, after an international experience at a law firm in London. Livia is an independent director on the boards of Italian companies.

Carlotta Corba Colombo

Carlotta Corba Colombo is mainly in financial market and corporate law with a particular focus on regulatory, corporate governance, remuneration and market abuse profiles. Carlotta also works in the context of groups and extraordinary transactions, such as takeover and exchange offers, and is an expert in advising numerous companies listed on regulated markets and multilateral trading facilities. Carlotta joined the Firm in 2011 after graduating from the Università degli Studi di Milano. She was admitted to the Milan Bar in 2014. She became Junior Partner in 2023.

Loredana Conidi

She is specialized in corporate and group taxation as well as in M&A and business restructuring. Her areas of expertise also include taxation of financial instruments and financial transactions, as well as stock option and incentive plans. Her practice includes tax advisory to high net worth individuals, family groups and family business. She gained a significant experience in advising on several issues regarding private clients, including estate and trust law as well as succession and inheritance tax matters. She also assists, domestic and international, clients in potential tax controversies and tax dispute resolutions through settlements. She is author of publications on tax matters.

Marc-Alexandre Courtejoie

Marc-Alexandre has extensive experience in the lending and structured finance space. He regularly assists regularly private credit funds, sponsors and banks in the full gamut of transactions (from preferred equity to senior financing). He became a member of the Italian and Belgium Bars and qualified as Solicitor in England and Wales. In 2002 he graduated from the Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium).

Luca Faustini

Luca mainly deals with the assistance in connection with financing and debt-restructuring transactions. He has gained a significant experience in the litigation practice and in the consulting activity with respect to securities, mainly derivatives, by advising leading financial institutions.

Rocco Ferrari

Rocco specializes in real estate, focusing particularly on extraordinary sale and purchases of companies, individual assets and real estate portfolios (including sale and leaseback transactions) particularly with regard to retail, shopping centres, joint ventures, development operations and real estate contracts. He advises some of the most important international real estate investors, retailers, banks and asset management companies (which he assists in relation to the management of real estate investment funds).

Luca Formica

He is the partner of the firm working in the London office. His practice includes advice to high net worth individuals and trusts, with particular emphasis on Italian-UK cross-border issues. He gained a significant experience in advising on several issues regarding private clients, including trust law, matrimonial regimes, succession and inheritance tax matters, as well as forced heirship rules.

Anton Carlo Frau

Anton Carlo advises on M&A transactions for both listed and unlisted companies. He is particular specialized in equity capital markets and the regulation of financial markets. He assist Italian and foreign investment banks, companies and private equity funds in acquisitions, mergers, joint ventures, public offerings and IPOs. He also advises clients on Debt Capital Markets side, handles the origination, structuring, execution and placement of bond issues.

Andrea Gaboardi

Andrea Gaboardi has been with the Firm since 2018 and has been a Partner of the Firm since 2025. He is mainly focused in all matters relating to labour law, industrial relations and agency contracts. He advises clients, both domestic and foreign operating in all productive sectors, in all aspects related to these matters with a particular focus on the processes of recruitment, management, reorganisation and restructuring of the workforce, negotiation and assistance of top management, drafting of remuneration policies and stock option plans as well as in litigation matters. He has gained particular experience in the management of labour law aspects related to extraordinary transactions and in the field of social shock absorbers, as well as in the management of industrial relations, supporting clients during the negotiations with trade unions and the definition of company level collective agreements. In previous years, he collaborated with other leading law firms. He graduated in Law in 2010 from the Università degli Studi di Milano and was admitted to the Milan Bar in 2013. He is member of AGI –Italian Employment Lawyers Association and member of EELA – European Employment Lawyers Association.

Francesco Gatti

Francesco is first and foremost one of the ltalian top experts in corporate law as well as in M&A transactions. He has developed an broad experience in corporate and financing law, corporate litigation and arbitration, being involved in several of the most important transactions in the last years. He has written several articles on corporate law, and has lectured in seminars on competition law and law and economics.

Andrea Giardino

Andrea has been involved in many of Gatti Pavesi Bianchi's most significant extraordinary corporate finance transactions. He specialises in M&A, particularly with regard to acquisitions and disposals of shareholdings and businesses, leveraged buy-outs, private equity transactions, joint ventures, takeover bids and exchange offers. He also advises on real estate transactions. He is the author of numerous publications on corporate law, with particular focus on group regulation and company direction and coordination.

Amélie Gillet

Amélie Gillet has been a Partner of the Firm since 2026. She mainly deals with acquisitions and joint-ventures as well as, more generally, with corporate and civil law matters. She provides assistance to companies and investment funds in numerous sectors, including food & beverage, luxury and tourism, both at an Italian and international level Amélie joined the firm in 2014, after having worked at various international law firms in Italy. In 2009 she graduated from the Università “La Sapienza” di Roma in Rome and the Universitè Panthéon-Assas in Paris. She was admitted to the Milan Bar in 2013.

Stefano Grassani

Stefano has in-depth experience in national and international antitust law. He is recognized as one of the Italian more experienced antitrust specialists in antitrust law at both the national and supranational level, dealing with matters such as concentrations, agreements, abuse of dominant position and State aid. He also advises on the legal stages of public and private enforcement and the follow-on and stand-alone actions in litigation proceedings.He has written numerous articles on antitrust law which have been published in both leading Italian and international publications.

Andrea Limongelli

Andrea Limongelli specializes in banking and finance and debt restructuring, particularly with regard to property finance and acquisition finance, in which he has advised and assisted the foremost Italian and foreign banks in a range of domestic and cross-border transactions.

Paolo Ludovici

Paolo Ludovici's expertise includes domestic and international corporate reorganizations, M&A and structured finance transactions, tax planning for high net-worth individuals and trusts. He often acts as an expert in criminal and tax proceedings. He regularly writes for Italian leading financial newspapers as well as for other major tax reviews and magazines. He regularly speaks at tax conferences and lectures in post-graduate specialization courses.

Gianni Martoglia

Gianni Martoglia is a skilled practitioner in the fields of financial markets and mergers and acquisitions, and he is particularly specialized in private equity. Recently he has directed some of Gatti Pavesi Bianchi's most significant and complex M&A transactions, assisting various Italian and foreign corporations and financial institutions. He has also written several articles on corporate law and securities which have appeared in some of the most important Italian publications. Furthermore, he was the co-author of the book “Tecniche di Private Equity”.

Federica Munno

Federica Munno joined the Firm in 2023 and deals with corporate law and M&A, with focus on public M&A transactions, regularly advising listed companies, PE funds and financial institutions on corporate extraordinary transactions as well as tender offers. In addition, she has remarkable experience in structuring the governance of listed companies. In recent years, she has gained significant experience in managing complex transactions in the infrastructure sector, assisting both companies and investment funds. Federica also gained international experience at a leading London based firm and currently serves as officer at the Securities Law Committee of the International Bar Association.

Stefano Nanni Costa

Stefano Nanni Costa has significant experience in corporate law and has a track-record of relevant domestic and international transactions in private equity, M&A and joint ventures, cross-border transactions and corporate reorganisations. He is also recognised for his expertise in advisory and extraordinary transactions in the real estate sector. He also has extensive experience in litigation (with specific reference to corporate and commercial, bankruptcy and intellectual property), and antitrust.

Barbara Napolitano

Barbara Napolitano has been involved in some of the main public and private extraordinary M&A transactions carried out in the Italian market in the last twenty years. She has also developed a specific expertise in securities’ law. Namely, she provides assistance in IPOs, secondary offers, public tenders and takeover bids, offer and exchange of equity, equity-linked or debt financial instruments. Further, Barbara gained a significant expertise in corporate reorganisations and business combinations of large domestic and international groups and mergers and acquisitions related to strategic assets carried out by listed groups, also cross- border. She also deals with the structuring of the governance of listed and unlisted companies’ (including large family businesses). Her areas of expertise include ESG practice, with particular regard to governance and relations with stakeholders.

Gilberto Nava

Gilberto Nava has gathered significant experience in the TMT and regulated markets sectors, with specific focus on electronic communications, media, postal services, electricity and gas for regulatory, competition and commercial profiles, both in and out of court. He provides assistance to leading international web operators for contractual, consumer and regulatory issues, and is active in assisting companies operating in various B2C markets for consumer profiles both in procedural and judicial settings.

Silvia Palazzetti

Silvia Palazzetti has been a Partner since 2022. She deals with corporate law in the private and public sector, with particular reference to domestic and international M&A, private equity and restructuring transactions by providing assistance in the definition of various types of commercial contracts and joint ventures. She began collaborating with the founding partners of the Firm in 2000. She graduated from the Università degli Studi di Milano in 1999.

Maximiliano Papini

Maximiliano Papini in mainly focused in extraordinary capital market transactions (regulated markets and multilateral trading facilities), with a particular focus on equity capital markets and financial market regulation. During his more than ten years of experience, he has assisted Italian and foreign clients, both industrial and financial, in transactions such as IPOs, tender offers, capital increases, contributions, mergers and demergers. He joined the Firm in 2007 after having graduated with honours from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano. He was admitted to the Milan Bar in 2012.

Rossella Pappagallo

Rossella Pappagallo specializes in rendering corporate advice, particularly with regard to the regulation of listed issuers. She also advises on regulatory compliance, corporate governance and mergers and acquisitions of listed companies. She also advises clients on Debt Capital Markets side, handles the origination, structuring, execution and placement of bond issues In recent years she has assisted some of the Firm’s key clients in capital markets transactions, including the issuance of financial instruments and their listings on regulated markets, and in the conduction of takeover bids and exchange offers.

Carlo Pavesi

Carlo Pavesi’s practice focuses on corporate law, domestic and cross-border merger and acquisitions, and private equity transactions. He has handled several of the largest Italian M&A deals of the recent years, and is considered as one of the leading lawyers for M&A transactions involving financial and banking institutions. Carlo Pavesi has represented Italian and international private equity funds in a wide range of M&A transactions. He advises on capital market transactions (including IPOs and equity offerings), and corporate governance matters. He is also active in high-profile corporate litigation and arbitration.

Lorenzo Picciano

Lorenzo Picciano joined the Firm as an Associate in 2015, having previously worked at another leading law firm. He graduated in Law in 2002 from the Università degli Studi di Bologna and became a member of the Bologna Bar in 2007. Furthermore, he has achieved a Masters in European Union Law from the Università Paris I – Pantheon Sorbonne di Parigi in Paris and he holds a PhD in European Union Law from the Università degli Studi di Bologna.

Pietro Piccone Ferrarotti

He gained a significant experience in advising domestic and foreign clients in complex tax audits, pre-litigation and judicial settlements, and defence before tax courts and Court of Cassation. His areas of expertise include corporate and group taxation, M&A and business restructuring, taxation of real estate, VAT, registration tax and other indirect taxes as well as excise duties and consumption taxes. He is author of publications on tax matters and he often speaks at tax conferences and lectures at post-graduate specialization courses.

Guido Sagliaschi

Guido Sagliaschi advises on various types of extraordinary real estate transactions and commercial agreements (including leases, business rentals and contract works) as well as the management of litigation and pre-litigation proceedings. He assists both Italian and foreign real estate clients in matters concerning wholesale, shopping centres, business parks, office-use and entertainment purposes as well as advising asset management companies on transactions concerning real estate investment funds.

Riccardo Salerno

Riccardo Salerno regularly assists industrial and financial clients, either Italian and international, in relation to a wide range of corporate and commercial matters, on a continuative basis or within the context of extraordinary transactions, also focusing on corporate governance and relationships among shareholders. Furthermore, he has a remarkable experience in equity and debt capital markets and listed companies regulation, including the special provisions governing disclosure and market abuse, and he has assisted, depending on the circumstances, issuers, board committees, investors, shareholders, banks and financial intermediaries in several important public M&A transactions (such as mergers, demergers, asset contributions and takeover bids), also cross-border, as well as within the offering and admission to listing of securities on domestic and European regulated markets and MTFs (e.g., IPOs, offers for sale, bond issues and extraordinary transactions on share capital). Riccardo Salerno joined the firm in 2022. Previously, he worked for 14 years in a leading Italian law firm in Rome. During that period, he was also seconded for several months to the Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) offices of the same firm. He graduated magna cum laude from the LUISS Guido Carli University of Rome in 2006, and he is a member of the Lecce Bar.

Raffaele Sansone

Raffaele focuses on financial market law, collective asset management and banking, finance and insurance regulation. He assists Italian and international regulated entities (including banks, AIFMs, investment companies, payment institutions and IMELs) and listed companies both in connection with extraordinary transactions and with regard to regulatory profiles and relations with the Supervisory Authority. He also has extensive experience in advising primary private equity, private debt and venture capital players. Raffaele has been involved in the establishment of leading investment funds and vehicles (including alternative funds, SIS, funds of funds, master feeder and ELTIF structures dedicated to retail investors, funds listed on the MIV and ETFs, search funds and club deals) and in the implementation of complex investment structures both in Italy and in other European jurisdictions. He is also an expert in anti-money laundering and international terrorism financing legislation, payment services and fintech, consumer credit and insurance-based investment products.

Antonio Satalino

Antonio Satalino has been a Partner of GPBL since 2022. He joined the firm in 2009, after having carried out his professional practice at the State Attorney’s Office of Bari. Over the years he has gained significant experience in the field of litigation, also in the arbitration, in corporate matters, with a special focus on liability, civil, real estate and commercial actions. He also advises commercial and financial operators, industrial groups and private equity funds in civil and corporate matters on an on-going basis. Previously, he worked at another leading law firm. He graduated in 2005 with honours from the Università degli Studi di Bari in Bari and became a member of the Italian Bar in 2008.

Vanessa Sobrero

Vanessa Sobrero is specialised in capital markets, M&A and Corporate Law. She has more than ten year experience in assisting Italian and foreign clients, both industrial and financial, in extraordinary transactions, including those on the capital markets (regulated markets and multilateral trading facilities) and cross-border, both in favour of issuers and banks/intermediaries in the role of sponsor, nomad and global coordinator. She advises numerous and relevant companies, issuers and groups, also international, in regulatory, corporate governance, and market abuse matters. She has a consolidated and significant experience in the SPAC-Special purpose acquisition companies sector having participated in the main IPOs and business combinations.

Filippo Sola

Filippo Sola mainly deals with corporate law and M&A, private equity transactions, joint ventures, corporate reorganisations and restructuring and other extraordinary transactions such as national and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, including those relating to listed companies. He has also gained experience in advising international and domestic managers and investors, in the structuring and operation of alternative investment funds and schemes. Filippo joined the Firm as an Associate in 2013 after having been admitted to the Italian Bar. In 2015, he attended a PhD in Civil, Corporate and International Law at the Università degli Studi in Genoa. He graduated with honours in Law from the Università degli Studi di Genova in 2009.

Paola Tradati

Paola Tradati is a renowned labour lawyer who focuses in particular on restructuring processes, collective dismissals, transfers of business and stock option plans, as well as in domestic and cross-border labour aspects of extraordinary transactions. She has in-depth expertise in HR contracts both in out-of-court settlements and in litigation before the court, in remuneration policies as well as in the area of agency and distribution contracts.As a journalist she has written and published legal commentaries and legal publications on Labour Law

Stefano Valerio

Stefano Valerio specializes in M&A transactions, advising on the drafting of share purchase agreements and shareholders’ agreements as well as in relation to demergers and private equity transactions. He renders advice to clients on capital markets and various corporate law matters. He also specializes in assisting large group companies in financial distress, advising on their restructuring and pre-bankruptcy activities. He has also written several articles and editorial contributions which have been published in leading legal journals and was the co-author of the book “Tecniche di Private Equity”.

Stefano Alberto Villata

Associate Professor of civil procedure at the University of Milan, Stefano has gathered over 20 years’ experience in civil and commercial litigation before Courts and arbitration panels. He advises private equity funds in domestic and cross-border complex litigations on corporate acquisition agreements, challenges to corporate resolutions, liability actions, shareholders agreements, bank contracts and procurement contracts. He has also experience in public procurements, real estate and restructuring matters. Admitted to Italian Higher Courts in 2012, Stefano authored monographs and articles on domestic and international civil procedure law and arbitration law and is Member of arbitration panels at the Milan Arbitration Chambers and in ad hoc proceedings. Stefano joined the Firm in 2025, previously he worked for a leading Italian firm where he served as a partner since 2009.