About

Based in Pescara, Silvia Di Donato is currently head of legal at the Italian real estate company IGD. With a property portfolio of €1.9bn, IGD is regarded as one of the most important organisations in the country’s property sector and engages primarily in the development and management of shopping centres in Italy and Romania. Supporting the legal activities of a company with approximately 40 hypermarkets, supermarkets, shopping malls and retail parks scattered across the country is never easy and requires Di Donato to be highly flexible and adaptable to constantly changing circumstances. A very hard working lawyer with a focused and goal-oriented mentality, Di Donato has received high praise for her transactional work over the years. Deals that Di Donato has worked on in the recent past include a preliminary agreement for the purchase of a new mall in Grosseto (2015), a preliminary agreement with UnipolSai for the purchase of the entire capital of Punta di ferro shopping centre (2015) and a €135m mortgage loan agreement with BNP Paribas (2013). Di Donato and her team currently oversee legal work relating to all important projects for the company; including a shopping centre in Grozetto, a Winmarkt shopping centre in Bucharest, Romania and a new retail complex at the port of Livorno. In addition, Di Donato, along with her team and other departments, is working on implementing the 2014-2016 company business plan that includes important targets for sustainability. Prior to joining IGD in 2006, Di Donato worked at the consumer goods company Gescom for a year-and-a-half and prior to that worked for three years at Studio legale Marino, an association active in consulting and tax litigation in Italy and abroad.