Andrea Messuti > LCA Studio Legale > Milan, Italy > Lawyer Profile
LCA Studio Legale Offices
VIA DELLA MOSCOVA 18
20121 MILANO
Italy
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Andrea Messuti
Work Department
Corporate M&A, Capital Markets, TMT
Position
Partner and Co-Head of the Capital Markets and Private Equity departments
Career
He joined the Law Firm in 2005.
He spent various years in the US working in the Boston and New York offices of Sullivan & Worcester LLP. Before joining LCA, Andrea worked for a primary Italian law firm.
He regularly advises national and international clients active in technological industrial sectors with particular focus on new media, internet, software, e-commerce, IT services, Med tech and life science. Andrea has broad experience in national and cross-border M&A, investment and extraordinary financial transactions (either capital or debt). He assists listed and non-listed companies with respect to company law, corporate governance and regulatory matters with particular focus on banking and financial activities.
He represents well-known venture capital and private equity funds in the high-tech and life science markets both in the fund formation phase and investment transactions at every stage of the company life. He regularly advises technological start-ups and venture incubators in the fund raising process, the creation of joint ventures and their international expansion with particular reference to inbound and outbound transactions with the US.
He regularly speaks at seminars on legal aspects regarding investments in technological companies and is lecturer in the elective course “Venture Capital” of the Degree in Digital Management, organized by Ca’ Foscari and H-Farm, where he explores legal matters related to equity capital investments in high-tech companies.
Languages
Italian, English and French
Memberships
He has been a member of various committees that organize business plan competitions dedicated to technological companies.
He promoted and is one of the founding members of PIB – Italian Professionals in Boston – a nonprofit organization whose aim is to help the cultural and professional exchange between Italy and the US. He is also member of the IBA – International Bar Association.
Education
LLM in Banking and Finance Law, Boston University School of Law (2009)
Law Degree, University of Genoa (2000)
Lawyer Rankings
Italy > Private equity
LCA Studio Legale‘s team advises domestic and international private equity firms (and their funds), as well as venture capital firms and funds (including business angels), on fundraising, buyouts, and the creation of investment vehicles. In Milan, Roberto de Bonis assists targets and investors with private equity deals, and Andrea Messuti advises technology, life sciences and industrial sector clients. Genoa-based Riccardo Massimilla is also experienced in private equity transactions.
Italy > Capital markets: Equity
LCA Studio Legale’s practice handles mid-market and upper-market ECM mandates, including IPOs, share buy-back schemes and dual listings. The team is co-led by IPO specialist Benedetto Lonato and Andrea Messuti, who advises tech and growth-stage companies on capital markets matters. In January 2023, the firm hired Andrea Marani, Gianni & Origoni’s former financial markets practice co-head. Marani’s arrival extends the firm’s IPO capabilities to cover the Milan Borsa’s main list.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Genoa: leading firms
- Shipping
- Capital markets: Equity
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Compliance
- Data privacy and data protection
- Dispute resolution
- Industry focus: Energy
- Industry focus: Healthcare and life sciences
- Industry focus: Luxury goods
- Industry focus: TMT
- Private equity
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Administrative and public law
- Banking and finance: Bank regulatory
- Employment
- Intellectual property
- Real estate and construction
- Banking and finance: Borrower side
- Tax