Bianca Caruso > Hogan Lovells International LLP > Milan, Italy > Lawyer Profile
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Bianca Caruso
Work Department
Corporate & Finance
Position
Partner
Career
Bianca Caruso is an Italian qualified lawyer with more than 15 years of experience in the area of Bank and Loan Finance, and general corporate and commercial law. Bianca regularly assists both credit providers and borrowers/issuers and private equity sponsors on financing transactions, with particular focus on corporate finance, leveraged finance, acquisition finance and real estate finance transactions. She also has a specific expertise in Private Credit & Direct Lending having been at the forefront of this fast-growing market since its start in Italy.
In addition, Bianca has notable experience with respect to Debt Capital Markets transactions mainly assisting underwriters and initial purchasers or issuers in connection with high yield bonds issuances.
Finally, she has been active also in the area of restructuring and special situations, assisting investors and sellers in the context of NPL and UTP transactions.
Bianca has been recognized as a Next Generation Partner in Banking & Finance both for borrower and lender/arranger side and as a recommended lawyer in Restructuring and Insolvency by The Legal 500 2024. She was also ranked among the Elite lawyers for Finance at the Milano Finanza Legal Awards 2024.
Lawyer Rankings
Italy > Banking and finance: Borrower side
(Next Generation Partners)Hogan Lovells International LLP‘s banking and finance team routinely handles leverage, acquisition, real estate and asset finance. In February 2024, structured finance expert Patrizio Messina
, banking and finance specialist Alessandro Accrocca and Sabrina Setini, an adviser on acquisition and asset finance, were hired from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe. The practice also features ‘great adviser’ Carlo Massini; and Italy restructuring and special situations head Mauro Saccani, who is ‘recommended for complex deals’. Iacopo Canino and Bianca Caruso were new arrivals in early 2025.
Italy > Banking and finance: lender or arranger side
(Next Generation Partners)Hogan Lovells International LLP‘s Italy banking and loan finance specialises in cross-border financing transactions. Carlo Massini is an expert in real estate, project, acquisition, asset and international trade financings, while Mauro Saccani heads the Italy business restructuring and insolvency practice. In February 2024, structured finance specialist Patrizio Messina, banking and finance expert Alessandro Accrocca and Sabrina Setini, who advises on acquisition and asset finance, were recruited from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe. Iacopo Canino and Bianca Caruso were new arrivals in early 2025.
Lawyer Rankings
- Next Generation Partners Italy > Banking and finance: Borrower side
- Next Generation Partners Italy > Banking and finance: lender or arranger side
- Banking and finance: Borrower side Italy
- Banking and finance: lender or arranger side Italy
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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