Ashurst‘s Italy team acts for borrowers on acquisition, leverage, real estate and development finance. The group also comprises experts in trade, asset, receivables, telecoms, infrastructure and project finance, as well as corporate lending and debt restructuring transactions. Carloandrea Meacci heads up the energy and infrastructure team; project finance practitioner Umberto Antonelli is ’a top-quality lawyer’; and Luca Maria Chieffo acts for borrowers on complex financings. Experienced finance lawyer Riccardo Rossi was recruited from Chiomenti in May 2024. Former co-head Mario Lisanti left the firm in May 2025.
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Practice head
Riccardo Rossi
Other key lawyers
Carloandrea Meacci; Umberto Antonelli; Luca Maria Chieffo; Nicola Toscano