Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Studio Legale

Mergers and Acquisitions, Equity capital markets, Corporate, Employment - pensions and incentives, Private equity

Partner, Milan

Augusto leads the Italian Corporate practice. Augusto has over 20 years of experience focusing on M&A, private equity, equity capital markets and corporate law across a wide range of industries, in particular healthcare and pharma, TMT, fashion and luxury goods, gaming and financial services.

He regularly advises domestic and international clients, ranging from financial institutions, private equity funds and industrial players, on a number of highly complex and innovative transactions. He advises clients on M&A deals, private equity and venture capital investments, IPOs, takeover bids and public M&A, rights issues, business transfers and extraordinary corporate transactions in general.

He actively collaborates with the Italian Stock Exchange (Borsa Italiana), where he is also a lecturer for the "corporate governance" and "generational transition" modules. He regularly speaks at seminars and conferences on M&A, corporate governance, remuneration and incentive policies and corporate matters in general as well as he is lecturer for masters at major universities, institutions and associations.

He is Adjunct Professor at Luiss Business School.

Augusto is a member of the board of directors of leading Italian companies, of the supervisory bodies and is secretary to the boards of directors of companies and groups. He regularly publishes articles in leading Italian law journals and industry publications and has been appointed as an arbitrator on various corporate matters.