About

Provided by Linklaters

Our banking and finance team in Italy provides financial institutions, world’s leading companies and governments with a wide range of complex, highest quality legal advice on domestic and international finance transactions.
Our extensive experience in acting for lenders as well as borrowers, in both industrial and financial sectors, proves our ability to satisfy the requirements of all parties to a transaction.
Clients benefit from our wide range of experience spanning the fields of banking and finance, including: acquisition finance, leveraged finance, syndicated finance, real estate finance, high yield financial structuring and asset finance.

Chambers Review

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Banking & Finance - Italy

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Band 1

What the Team is Known For

Linklaters is a market-leading magic circle firm with a formidable reputation across the banking and finance spectrum and impressive international capabilities. The team showcases wide-ranging skills through a strong track record of acquisition finance deals. The department is further equipped to handle large debt restructurings and refinancing mandates. The lawyers assist a broad range of key national and international lending institutions as well as borrowers. Moreover, the law firm advises on regulatory aspects connected with M&A and restructurings in the financial services sector, as well as representing banks and investment funds in authorisation applications. It additionally works closely with its corporate and capital markets specialists.

Work Highlights

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  • Linklaters represented a pool of Italian and international banks in the EUR500 million financing of the acquisition of MinervaHub by San Quirico.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Andrea Arosio
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Andrea Arosio
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Eminent Practitioners

Managing partner Andrea Arosio is a highly distinguished lawyer whose expertise spans a wide variety of financing transactions, including acquisition and leveraged finance, restructurings and revolving credit facilities.

Andrea Arosio is widely recognised as one of leading banking and finance practitioners in Italy.

Alessandra Ortelli
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Alessandra Ortelli
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Band 5

Alessandra Ortelli is a seasoned lawyer at Linklaters who offers support in debt restructurings, facility agreement compliance and acquisition finance. She also handles the negotiation and drafting of SACE-backed facilities.

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Anna Ferraresso
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Up and Coming

Anna Ferrarresso is based in Linklaters' Milan office, where she specialises in advising financial institutions, funds and private equity houses on regulatory and compliance mandates.

Anna is a great counsel. She is a pragmatic expert who understands the clients' needs well.

Anna has been always very responsive in managing our requests and providing effective solutions.

Anna Ferraresso is a strong, detail-focused lawyer who provides good commercial advice.

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Banking & Finance

Andrea Arosio
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Andrea Arosio
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Eminent Practitioners
Alessandra Ortelli
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Alessandra Ortelli
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Band 5
Banking & Finance: Financial Services Regulation

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Anna Ferraresso
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Up and Coming