Avv Paola Barometro > Hogan Lovells International LLP > Milan, Italy > Lawyer Profile
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20123 MILAN
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Avv Paola Barometro
Work Department
Corporate & M&A
Position
Partner
Career
Paola Barometro is an Italian qualified lawyer with extensive experience in M&A transactions involving banks and financial institutions. She has also been involved in recent years in major Italian banks rescue and relaunch transactions.
Paola advises a wide spectrum of corporate clients as well as private equity funds and other financial investors mainly in M&A projects, with a particular emphasis on banks and financial institutions active in the European financial markets.
She has been recently involved in major Italian banks rescue and relaunch transactions. Her practice also focuses on cross-border M&A, joint venture, private equity and venture capital transactions, including negotiated mergers, auction bid processes, leveraged buyouts and the acquisition and divestiture of divisions and subsidiaries in other industries like life sciences, energy and technology.
Paola also regularly counsels’ boards of directors on corporate governance, compliance and fiduciary duties.
She has been recently involved in IPOs, share capital increases and other extraordinary transactions on multilateral trading facilities.
Memberships
She is regular lecturer at the “Master Diritto e Impresa – Il Sole 24 Ore Business School” with reference to M&A transactions.
Paola is member of the Scientific Committee of the legal portal “Modulo24Contratti” run by Sole24Ore on commercial agreements.
Lawyer Rankings
Italy > Private equity
Acting throughout private equity lifecycles, Hogan Lovells International LLP‘s practice covers co-investments, and equity or debt investments in infrastructure, real estate and energy assets. It also advises on private M&A, add-on acquisitions, IPO exits, and minority and venture capital investments. Corporate M&A and private equity practitioner Luca Picone
is group head; while Paola Barometro is a February 2024 recruit from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, who advises private equity funds on M&A.
Italy > Commercial, corporate and M&A
(Next Generation Partners)Hogan Lovells International LLP’s corporate and M&A team is experienced in major domestic and cross-border transactions, particularly energy, insurance and financial institution-related matters. Luca Picone has a ‘solid M&A background’; corporate M&A specialist Paola Barometro is a February 2024 recruit from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe; and Francesco Stella‘s track record encompasses acquisitions and joint ventures. Martina Di Nicola, Pierluigi Feliciani and Francesco De Michele are also key individuals in the team. Andrea Pretti joined the firm from White & Case (Europe) LLP in early 2025.
Lawyer Rankings
- Next Generation Partners Italy > Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Commercial, corporate and M&A Italy
- Private equity Italy
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Data privacy and data protection
- Capital markets: Equity
- Industry focus: Healthcare and life sciences
- Industry focus: TMT
- Intellectual property
- Capital markets: Equity
Firm Rankings
- Administrative and public law
- Banking and finance: Bank regulatory
- Capital markets: Debt
- Compliance
- Dispute resolution
- Industry focus: Luxury goods
- Banking and finance: Borrower side
- Banking and finance: lender or arranger side
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Investment funds
- Private equity
- Restructuring and insolvency
- EU and competition law
- Industry focus: Energy
- Real estate and construction
- Tax
- Employment
- Capital markets: Equity