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Mr Alessandro Fosco Fagotto
Work Department
Banking and Finance
Position
Alessandro Fosco Fagotto is a partner in Dentons’ Milan office and Head of the Italian Banking and Finance practice and Europe Head of the Banking and Finance practice.
He gained great experience in advising lenders (his clients are almost all the most representative Italian banks, international banks providing financial support in Italy), financial sponsors (private equity and private debt funds), investors, other financial institutions and borrowers, in connection with a very broad range of financing transactions, including acquisition and leveraged finance, structured finance, real estate finance, general corporate lending and refinancing.
His experience also covers debt restructuring transactions, in particular, transactions designed to preserve the going concern (i.e. consolidation agreements, restructuring agreements, distressed M&A, sale of bank credits), as well as in all kinds of financing to be granted to distressed companies (bridge finance, interim finance and finance granted in the framework of restructuring plans). He also assists industrial groups interested in investing in distressed companies, in all consolidation path steps.
He is broadly acknowledged as one of the leading finance lawyers in Italy for his long-time presence (15 years) in the Italian debt market.
Career
Fosco joined Dentons in 2016 from Pedersoli Studio Legale, a leading Italian independent law firm, where he was a partner in the Banking and Finance department. Prior to that, he has been a partner at Marena D’Angelo & Fagotto and, formerly, at MBL & Partners.
Languages
- English
- Italian
Memberships
Admitted to the Bar, Milan, 1999
Education
University of Milan, 1996, JD
Lawyer Rankings
Italy > Banking and finance: lender or arranger side
(Hall of Fame)Dentons‘ full-service banking and finance group specialises in commercial lending, fund financing, financial services, project finance and structured finance. Alessandro Fosco Fagotto
leads the firm’s Europe banking and finance practice. Pierandrea Bonali brings expertise to the real estate and property finance markets. Luigi Costa advises on energy and infrastructure financings. The team further includes managing counsels Edoardo Galeotti, Franco Paolo Gialloreti and counsel Tommaso Zanirato, who all focus on domestic and cross-border LBOs involving banks and financial institutions; and counsel and real estate sector specialist Antida Cutuli.
Italy > Banking and finance: Borrower side
(Hall of Fame)The Italian banking and finance practice at Dentons covers commercial lending deals, including leveraged, real estate and corporate finance, as well as refinancing, fund financing and private debt. The team additionally assists with high-end project and structured finance transactions. Italy and Europe banking and finance head Alessandro Fosco Fagotto is a highly-regarded structured finance specialist; and Giovanni Diotallevi focuses predominantly on the infrastructure, transportation, energy, telecoms and water sectors. The group further includes experienced real estate finance advisor Pierandrea Bonali and energy and infrastructure project financing expert Luigi Costa.
Italy > Banking and finance: Bank regulatory
‘Well-recognised in the market‘, Dentons‘ Italian financial services team is highly active in deals involving bank regulatory issues. Italy financial services head Alessandro Engst focuses on financial institutions’ regulations, investment funds and derivatives; and Alessandro Fosco Fagotto heads up the firm’s Italy banking and finance department. The practice further features Valerio Lemma, an adviser on on banking, financial and insurance regulation and asset management, and ‘outstanding lawyer’ Lorenzo Toppini.
Lawyer Rankings
- Hall of Fame Italy > Banking and finance: Borrower side
- Hall of Fame Italy > Banking and finance: lender or arranger side
- Banking and finance: Borrower side Italy
- Banking and finance: lender or arranger side Italy
- Banking and finance: Bank regulatory Italy
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Administrative and public law
- Banking and finance: Borrower side
- Banking and finance: lender or arranger side
- Data privacy and data protection
- Dispute resolution
- Industry focus: Energy
- Industry focus: Healthcare and life sciences
- Industry focus: TMT
- Banking and finance: Bank regulatory
- Capital markets: Debt
- Capital markets: Equity
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Employment
- EU and competition law
- Investment funds
- Private equity
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Tax
- Compliance
- Intellectual property