Lionel Spizzichino

Practice Areas

Lionel Spizzichino is a partner in the Business Reorganization & Restructuring Department of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in Paris and co-Chair of the European Restructuring Group.

He has extensive experience in Lender-led and complex cross-border restructurings as well as French pre-insolvency and insolvency matters, including amicable restructuring, insolvency proceedings, restructuring litigation and distressed mergers and acquisitions.

Lionel also advises regularly on mergers and acquisitions with a particular focus on cross border acquisitions and complex carve-outs.

His clients include companies, creditors or investors in a wide range of sectors such as airlines, aircraft, media, chemical, financial services and automotive. He also advises investment funds, recovery funds and hedge funds.

Lionel has been involved in some of the most significant pre-insolvency proceedings, bankruptcy proceedings and high-profile M&A and distressed M&A cases in France.

Personal

LL.M., Georgetown University Law Center, 2004; MS.C., EMLYON Business School, 1998; LL.M., Université Paris V - René Descartes, 1995. See: http://www.willkie.com/professionals/s/spizzichino-lionel