Acting on its own as well as regularly teaming up with high-profile UK and US law firms, GSK Stockmann provides 'commercially savvy and pragmatic' advice to an eclectic mix of stakeholders, including funds, SMEs and banks, across a range of banking and finance transactions. Leveraging the firm's German roots and co-heads Andreas Heinzmann and Philipp Mößner's dual German and Luxembourg qualifications, unsurprisingly a good deal of the team's transactions, particularly within the real estate sector, involve German assets. Appreciated for his combination of 'technical excellence, commercial awareness, and genuine commitment', Heinzmann has a strong reputation for handling capital markets and securitisation matters. So too does the 'pragmatic' and well-networked Valerio Scollo, who has recently handled numerous high-profile Italian deals, including on behalf of Telecom Italia on its €5.5bn debt exchange.

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Testimonials

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'The firm displays a combination of deep subject matter expertise with a forward-looking, highly client-centric approach. The team is not only technically strong in its core areas of law but also understands the commercial realities and regulatory pressures clients face.'
'GSK is exceptionally commercially savvy and pragmatic. Their deep knowledge of Luxembourg securitisation regulation, combined with their ability to translate our strategic intentions into legally robust structures, consistently adds tremendous value to our transactions.'
'Their balance of legal excellence with strategic business insight enables them to provide advice that is both rigorous and practical.'
'Andreas Heinzmann is very responsive and he and his team know how to adjust their scope of work to better fit our needs.'
'Andreas Heinzmann is not only a highly skilled lawyer but also a trusted advisor who understand the broader business and strategic context in which I operate.'
'Valerio Scollo is a great professional, with deep expertise of banking regulations, but also, in general, transactional and structured finance mechanisms.'

Key clients

Telecom Italia
Mediobanca International
Eleving Group
Sosteneo Infrastructure Partners
Universal Investment
Vicenda Asset Management AG
Aroundtown SA
Alter5 Financial Technologies S.L.
Grand City Properties S.A.
Alchemy Capital Partners
4Finance
Vivion Investments S.à r.l.

Work highlights

Advised Telecom Italia on its debt exchange. Telecom Italia (TIM), Telecom Italia Finance and Telecom Italia Capital made three separate but concurrent exchange offers to exchange certain series of their respective existing euro and US dollar denominated notes with corresponding new notes for a total amount of approx. €5.5bn.

Advised Mediobanca International (Luxembourg) S.A. as local and tax counsel in connection with the programmes for the issuance of euro medium term notes, to be listed and admitted to trading on Euronext Dublin, Borsa Italiana and Luxembourg Stock Exchange.

Advised fintech company Eleving Group on the completion of the largest offer of shares by way of an IPO of a privately held company in Latvia and subsequent listing and trading of the offered shares on the Nasdaq Baltic Main List and Frankfurt Stock Exchange’s regulated market Prime Standard.