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Italy 2025

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Silvia Bertini

Clo | De Nora Group

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Silvia Bertini

Clo | De Nora Group

With over 20 years of experience in corporate law, M&A, antitrust, and litigation, my professional journey began between Brussels and Milan at two leading international law firms: Bonelli Erede and Latham & Watkins.

 

After a brief stint in the energy sector with a UK multinational group, I joined De Nora in 2012, where I played a pivotal role in establishing and structuring the legal department. My leadership has driven a cultural shift towards heightened sensitivity and attention to the group’s growing complexity and its legal implications, risk prevention, and management.

 

Throughout my career, I have led the legal strategy behind all major extraordinary and transformative transactions which have involved De Nora group over the past decade. These include the establishment of the thyssenkrupp nucera joint venture with thyssenkrupp, as well as the acquisition together with the related financing of the water technologies group of companies from the publicly listed English group, Severn Trent in 2015; the entry of the US private equity fund Blackstone into the shareholding structure of De Nora in 2017 and the following exit in 2021 for the benefit of the new and current minority shareholder, Snam S.p.A.; the listing of De Nora on the Italian Stock Exchange in 2022 and the  active involvement in the project of the construction of the “Italian Gigafactory”, i.e. Italy’s largest production hub for electrolyzers used in green hydrogen generation. In the past few years, I’ve been recognized among the most inspiring and prominent in-house female practitioners in the Italian legal sector for promoting inclusion. I also serve a board member and board secretary in several companies within the De Nora Group.

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