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Charles Adams is a dual qualified avvocato (Italy) and solicitor (England & Wales) who is widely recognised as one of Italy's leading banking and finance lawyers. Charles has advised banks and borrowers on some of the most significant syndicated loans, leveraged and project finance transactions in the Italian market over the past 20 years. He also advises clients on major Italian restructurings and insolvencies and is active in the Energy sector, having advised on some of Italy's landmark infrastructure and project financings and more recently on renewables transactions.

Jonathan Astbury

Jonathan Astbury is a Counsel in our Global Financial Markets practice, with established experience in Debt and Equity Capital Markets and Corporate Finance. He joined Clifford Chance in 2014 as an associate from an international law firm in which he trained and worked in London and Abu Dhabi. He is dual-qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales and as an Avvocato in Italy. Jonathan regularly assists Italian and international investment banks and issuers in connection with complex structured finance transactions and bond issuances. In the debt capital markets area, he has gained solid experience in relation to EMTN (Euro Medium Term Notes), ECP (Euro Commercial Paper) programs, standalone issues, hybrid, equity-linked and exchangeable/convertible bonds, as well as bank and insurance capital strengthening issuance and liability management transactions, including tender and exchange offers and consent solicitation. He is also active in the field of sustainable finance, with a particular focus on ESG aspects, and regularly advises on bond issues related to M&A and private debt transactions.

Paolo Ballerini

Maria Bazzini

Lucio Bonavitacola

Lucio Bonavitacola is Head of the Italian Regulatory team and he specialises in banking and financial regulations. Lucio keeps regular contact with the regulatory bodies, the Bank of Italy and CONSOB. He is a regular speaker at symposiums and often quoted in the press on regulatory topics of interest.

Francesca Casini

Claudio Cerabolini

Claudio Cerabolini specialises in private equity, real estate, and private and public M&A transactions, and heads the Private Equity and the Real Estate groups in Italy. Claudio has worked with some of the most important international and Italian private equity, real estate and sovereign wealth funds, as well as with other asset managers, advising them on investment and disinvestment transactions (including buy-outs, public-to-private, growth capital, mergers, IPOs and joint ventures) in Italy and other European countries. He has also advised multinational and Italian corporates and financial institutions in M&A transactions, joint ventures, IPOs, tender offers and several other corporate finance and capital market matters. He is a member of the Tax & Legal Committee of AIFI (Italian Association of Private Equity and Venture Capital) and is one of the authors of the book "Private Equity and Venture Capital, Regulation and Good Practice", published by Risk Books in 2014. Claudio has also worked in the field of IT and data protection law for over 15 years, advising important clients on compliance, litigation, and complex and innovative matters.

Riccardo Coassin

Chiara is a Partner in the Global Financial Markets practice, specialized in project finance, infrastructure finance, leverage and acquisition finance and syndicated lending.

Giuseppe De Palma

Giuseppe De Palma is Co- Regional Practice Area Leader GFM for One Europe and specialises in acquisition finance, restructuring and project/export finance. He has advised on groundbreaking domestic and international portfolio management transactions, restructuring project financings, leveraged finance on loan management/transactions, syndicated lendings and export credit transactions.

Luciano Di Via is the Head of the Italian Antitrust Practice and is considered one of the primary specialists in antitrust in Italy. Luciano splits his time between Rome and Brussels and has more than 20 years' experience specialising in all aspects of EU and Italian antitrust law, including merger control, cartels, abuse of market power and market investigations/sector inquires. Luciano works across a wide range of sectors, including food and beverage, retail, insurance, energy and telecommunications. Luciano is also Co-Chair of the ICC Task Force on Cartels and Leniency. Before joining Clifford Chance in 2013, Luciano spent 10 years at the Italian Competition Authority — two of which he was the ICA’s seconded national expert at the European Commission's Directorate General of Competition. During his time with the ICA, amongst other activities, he led teams conducting dawn raids at company premises.

Filippo Emanuele

Filippo Emanuele is Co-Head of Finance & Capital Markets in Italy. He specialises in equity and debt capital markets and corporate finance.

Andrea Tuninetti Ferrari

Gioacchino Foti

Gioacchino Foti is one of the leading practitioners in Italy in Debt Capital Markets. His practice covers all aspects of DCM including EMTN establishments, updates, and issuances thereunder, stand-alone Eurobonds, liability management transactions, convertible bonds, warrants, Italian retail bonds and structured products, sovereign bonds, Yankee bonds as well as covering regulatory capital matters. Gioacchino acts for a wide range of investment banks and issuers.

Carlo Galli has been Head of Tax in Italy since its establishment, and is part of the global Tax group. He regularly advises domestic and international clients on all aspects of tax in complex transactions and has significant experience in the structuring and financing of inbound and outbound investments.

Carlo Felice Giampaolino

Carlo Giampaolino is an expert on corporate, insurance, bankruptcy, industrial and financial markets law. His work is performed both in and out of court for leading Italian and international financial institutions and corporations. Carlo has been appointed by the bankruptcy court for fraudulent conveyance actions, liabilities of directors, litigation in corporate law, patent law, unfair competition, legal opinion in insurance law, corporation law, banking law, drafting of corporation by-laws and contracts.

Antonio Golino specialises in Regulatory Enforcement and Financial Crimes, regularly advising financial institutions and corporations on sensitive matters arising from regulatory issues and criminal investigations. Antonio is also a trial lawyer with particular focus on financial crimes, acting as criminal defence counsel for corporate entities and individuals in high-profile market abuse and fraud trials. Antonio is a lecturer in Regulatory Enforcement on the LL.M. in White Collar Crime at LUISS University School of Law in Rome.

Elisa Ielpo

Filippo Isacco works in the Corporate M&A practice in Milan and is specialised in Private Equity and Corporate M&A advice for a wide range of notable financial investors and corporate clients, mainly on cross-border and cutting-edge transactions.

Stella Magistro

Sara Mancinelli

Sara Mancinelli is a Counsel in the Italy Tax team. She is specialised in M&A taxation, with a particular focus on real estate, taxation in relation to capital markets and tax litigation issues, particularly when criminal angles are involved. She is also a lecturer in tax law issues on postgraduate courses and the author of several publications on tax law.

Stefano Parrocchetti Piantanida

Alice Reali

Umberto Penco Salvi

Umberto Penco Salvi heads the Italian Energy & Infrastructure Group and specialises in M&A, joint ventures, tender offers, restructuring, construction and project contracts with a focus on regulated sectors such as Energy & resources, Healthcare, Life Sciences & Chemicals and Telecommunications, Media & Technology. He regularly advises both senior management and boards of directors when facing sensitive situations and on all aspects of corporate governance. Umberto represents clients in court and arbitration proceedings, and has served both as an attorney and arbitrator for disputes involving M&A matters.

Laura Scaglioni

Laura Scaglioni specialises in equity and debt capital markets and corporate finance.

Paolo Sersale is Managing Partner for Italy. With more than 20 years of practice as partner in Corporate M&A, his experience ranges from public M&A and Takeover Regulations to Private Equity and Corporate Restructurings.

Andrea Sgrilli

Tanja Svetina specialises in structured finance and debt capital markets, with particular regard to securitisations, covered bonds, secured lending, principal finance and real estate finance.

Filippo Tassoni