Luigi Santa Maria > Greenberg Traurig Santa Maria > Milan, Italy > Lawyer Profile
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LARGO TOSCANINI 1
20122 MILANO
Italy
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Luigi Santa Maria
Work Department
Corporate
Position
Co-Managing Shareholder (Partner)
Career
Luigi Santa Maria, the co-managing shareholder of the Santa Maria office, focuses his practice on corporate law, including mergers and acquisitions, banking and finance, corporate governance, litigation, and arbitration.
His broad experience includes a wide range of multi-jurisdictional transactions including joint ventures, spin-offs, divestitures, leveraged buyouts, and U.S. and Italian restructurings. He advises high-profile clients in major cross-border M&A deals in the banking, energy, financial, health care, chemical, and manufacturing industries, and has assisted financial institutions in complex securities transactions, tender offers, and IPOs.
Luigi Santa Maria is the Founder of the Italian Desk in New York and practiced at Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP from 1997 to 2005. He is also the founder and was the managing partner of Studio Legale Santa Maria.
Capabilities
Corporate
Banking & Financial Services
Mergers & Acquisitions
International Arbitration & Litigation
International Trade
Restructuring & Bankruptcy
Admission to Practice
Italy (admitted to Supreme Court)
Languages
Italian, Native
English, Fluent
Education
- LL.M., Fordham University School of Law, 1993
- J.D., summa cum laude, University of Milan, 1991
Lawyer Rankings
Italy > Commercial, corporate and M&A
Leveraging its global network of offices, Greenberg Traurig Santa Maria has significant experience in cross-border mandates. Public and private M&A and private equity expert Luigi Santa Maria is ‘an excellent negotiator who comes up with creative solutions’; and Mario Santa Maria is a joint venture and M&A specialist. The team also includes Pietro Caliceti, an adviser on high-profile transactions in both Italy and abroad, and private M&A lawyer Carlo Scaglioni.