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Francesca Elisabetta Spinelli Barrile

Head of legal, Italy | Barclays

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Francesca Elisabetta Spinelli Barrile

Head of legal, Italy | Barclays

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Francesca Elisabetta Spinelli Barrile first joined the Barclays legal department in London in 2006, with a cross-product legal coverage role on the Italian investment banking private-side and markets businesses (encompassing derivatives, structured finance and M&A). She is a dual qualified lawyer in Italy and England and Wales, and after almost a decade of experience at the banking and finance giant was promoted to head of legal, Italy for the investment banking and corporate banking division in 2015. Two years later, she expanded her role to include the entire Italian franchise, including the Italian legacy retail bank business. Spinelli Barrile has built up an Italian legal coverage team with an innovative jurisdictional coverage model. The current Italian legal coverage model includes both product (including DCM and Structured Finance) and jurisdictional coverage in cooperation with product lawyers across all the Italian franchise operating both on a cross-border and in-country basis. This model ensures an effective and efficient interaction between the legal team and the Italian business desks, providing cost-effective, highly specialised and consistent legal advice. This approach has also enhanced the adoption of a holistic approach on complex legal issues and ensure adherence with the bank’s global risk management framework and best practices. Strategic and complex projects and initiatives include implementation of major regulatory changes impacting Barclays’ Italian businesses. Currently priorities include a Barclays European Referendum Response Programme that is setting out the corporate reorganisation and strategy for Barclays’ activities across its European footprint, including Italy. Spinelli Barrile and her team have also been assisting the business in executing high profile equity capital markets transactions completed by Barclays in the Italian market such as Enav’s privatisation, and three recapitalisations by the Italian banks UniCredit, Carige and Credito Valtellinese. She has also overseen landmark transactions for Italian issuers in a number of DCM and Liability Management transactions, including the Italian Ministry of Finance’s €5.6bn bond buy back. A nominator has said that Spinelli Barrile oversees a legal team that is ‘well structured, capable of providing assistance on a wide variety of matters and always a pleasure to work with. The team provides careful instructions and interacts with clients and external legal counsel in a proactive and efficient way. Spinelli Barrile and her team are one of the most competent in the city covering Italian law deals and practice. They are involved in the most relevant transactions in Italy and promote strict cooperation with Italian law firms. Spinelli Barrile has been leading the team for many years with great competence and has been able to create a friendly environment for her group, heading a team which is highly recognised and among the most active in Italian investment banking with a specific focus on structured finance and international capital markets’. Prior to joining Barclays, she worked in private practice at the Milan office of Norton Rose within the M&A and corporate finance department.

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