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Linklaters Studio Legale Associato Offices
Via Giulia, 4
00186 Roma
Italy
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Giorgio Fantacchiotti
Work Department
Corporate, M_A and private equity
Position
Giorgio specialises in transactional work with a focus on cross-border public and private M&A, joint ventures, and private equity transactions. He regularly advises corporations in their national and cross-border M&A activity, and leading Italian and international private equity and credit funds in their downstream work and portfolio management. Since January 2017 Giorgio co-heads the global consumer sector of the firm and is dual qualified in Italy and in the UK.
Career
May 2014 to date: Partner, Corporate M&A Private Equity, Linklaters
2004-2014: Partner, Corporate M&A, Private Equity, Bonelli Erede Pappalardo
1997-2004: Associate, Corporate M&A, Bonelli Erede Pappalardo
Jan 1998-April 1999: Secondment to Herbert Smith London
Languages
Italian, English
Memberships
Admitted to the Italian Bar Association and Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales
Education
Personal
Leading Italian legal journal, Legal Community lists him as one of the Top 20 M&A lawyers in Italy (LegalCommunity MAG, October 2015) and lauds him for being “responsive, thorough and very quick at grasping the commercial implications of the legal side.
Lawyer Rankings
Italy > Private equity
(Hall of Fame)Linklaters Studio Legale Associato‘ private equity expertise in Milan ranges from corporate and M&A matters to banking, capital markets and tax aspects. The group also regularly works alongside the firm’s experienced projects, competition, employment and restructuring and insolvency practices, as well as with the firm’s wider network. The workload of cross-border M&A and private equity deal expert Giorgio Fantacchiotti
includes advising private equity and credit funds on their downstream work and portfolio management.
Italy > Commercial, corporate and M&A
Linklaters Studio Legale Associato’ Italy corporate team is well-known for its advice on public takeovers, cross-border and multi-jurisdictional M&A, joint ventures, and other corporate advisory matters. It is particularly active on behalf of clients from the financial institutions, private equity, real estate, infrastructure, energy, retail, luxury, and telecoms sectors. The principal figures are corporate law specialist Pietro Belloni, renowned M&A expert Roberto Casati, and Giorgio Fantacchiotti, who heads the private equity practice. Alessandra Ghezzi was a new arrival in early 2024.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance: Borrower side
- Banking and finance: lender or arranger side
- Capital markets: Equity