Alfredo Craca > FIVELEX Studio Legale e Tributario > Milan, Italy > Lawyer Profile

FIVELEX Studio Legale e Tributario
VIA DEGLI OMENONI 2
20121 MILAN
Italy

Work Department

Litigation and arbitration, Corporate and commercial, Mergers and acquisitions, Banking and finance, Debt restructuring and insolvency procedures

Position

Equity partner and co-managing partner

Career

Founding partner and co-managing partner of FIVELEX Studio Legale e Tributario, Alfredo Craca began practicing in 1996 when he joined Lombardi Molinari, a Milan-based law firm. From 2001 to January 2004 he was a junior partner at Pedersoli Lombardi e Associati and between January 2004 and May 2006 he was a partner at Lombardi Molinari e Associati. In 2006 he co-founded Craca Pisapia Tatozzi, a boutique law-firm specialising in litigation and arbitration, where he was a name partner until the foundation of FIVELEX Studio Legale e Tributario.

His areas of practice include corporate, commercial, banking and bankruptcy litigation, providing assistance in significant and sensitive disputes involving commercial and industrial companies, banks and financial institutions, managers and corporate officers.
He has also acquired significant experience in arbitration matters in his capacity as either defence counsel or arbitrator appointed by the parties or by the arbitration chambers.
He is also actively engaged in non-contentious procedures, where he has developed particular experience in the field of corporate reorganizations (investment agreements, purchases of equity interests, businesses and real estate portfolios, joint ventures) and in the field of banking and finance (acquisition finance, real estate financing, also to closed-end funds, refinancing and debt restructuring, also in insolvency procedures).
He has directly managed public tender offers and provides regular corporate advisory services to listed and non-listed companies.
He advises Italian and foreign banks and operators in the purchase of distressed assets and non-performing loans.

Languages

Italian, English.

Memberships

Registered with the Milan Bar in 1998.
Admitted to practice before the Italian Supreme Court (Cassazione).

Education

Law Degree (with honours) from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, in 1995.

Lawyer Rankings

Italy > Commercial, corporate and M&A

FIVELEX Studio Legale e Tributario’s Milan team fields experts in M&A transactions, particularly in relation to industrial and commercial mid-cap companies. The principal figures are ‘excellent lawyer’ Alfredo Craca; extraordinary transaction specialist Francesco Di Carlo; and Claudio Tatozzi, who focuses on corporate law, financial market legislation and bankruptcy law.

Italy > Dispute resolution

(Leading individuals)

Alfredo CracaFIVELEX Studio Legale e Tributario

FIVELEX Studio Legale e Tributario is frequently entrusted by domestic and international companies and represents clients engaged in a host of industries. It has recently noted an uptick in instructions related to sport and energy disputes. Alfredo Craca, who is an experienced counsel and arbitrator, leads the practice alongside Claudio Tatozzi and Vittorio Pisapia. Carlotta Vercesi is noted for corporate, commercial and civil disputes.