Francesco Scebba > White & Case LLP Italy > Milan, Italy > Lawyer Profile

White & Case LLP Italy routinely assists with leveraged finance; syndicated loans; real estate finance, asset financing and export finance; mezzanine and hybrid debt; and private debt transactions. Recently promoted from local partner to partner, Giuseppe Barra Caracciolo advises on banking, asset and acquisition financing deals; Iacopo Canino is ‘an exemplary professional‘; Gianluca Fanti‘s practice includes banking matters; and Andrea Novarese consistently acts for investment banks and financial institutions. Also key to the team is financing expert Francesco Scebba, along with experienced senior associates Bianca Caruso, Tiziana Germinario and Stefano Bellani.

Fielding a large US, English and Italian capital markets practice, White & Case LLP Italy consistently works on complex and large DCM and high-yield transactions across all debt products. The broad practices of Giuseppe Barra Caracciolo and Gianluca Fanti include complex securitisation transactions; Ferigo Foscari has longstanding securities experience; and Michael Immordino works across the Milan and London offices. The second line of experienced practitioners includes Francesco Scebba, who was made partner in 2020; Tommaso Tosi, who has notable high-yield capital markets experience; as well as associates Robert Becker, Pietro Magnaghi and Alessandro Picchi.

White & Case LLP Italy‘s practice covers the entire lifecycle of financing mandates, and it is able to combine its banking and finance expertise with the firm’s debt capital markets, structured finance and financial restructuring capabilities. Giuseppe Barra Caracciolo has longstanding experience in banking, asset and acquisition financing deals; Iacopo Canino is a leveraged finance expert; and Gianluca Fanti is a banking and finance transactions specialist. Also integral to the group are Andrea Novarese and local partner Francesco Scebba, along with senior associates Bianca Caruso, Tiziana Germinario and Stefano Bellani.

White & Case LLP Italy‘s sizable financial restructuring and insolvency team is described as ‘very competent, structured and able to tackle complex projects very effectively.’ The department is part of the firm’s wider European restructuring and insolvency team and is therefore able to provide Italian, English, EU and US advice. Gianluca Fanti has ‘great skills and experience.’ Giuseppe Barra Caracciolo ‘is a great professional: serious, prepared and capable of finding practical solutions.’ Maria Cristina Storchi provides ‘excellent service’. Iacopo Canino, Andrea Novarese and Francesco Scebba are also noted. Alessandro Nolet is now with Linklaters.