Luca Picone

Corporate/M&A Partner and head of the Corporate & Finance practice in Italy, Luca Picone is a consistently acknowledged and innovative M&A lawyer. Thanks to his experience spanning over 30 years, and his cutting-edge knowledge of Italian law, Luca counsels clients on domestic and cross-border transactions, providing a practical and strategical approach.

His extensive experience ranges from pure cross-border and domestic transactional work (including asset and share deals, investments, recapitalizations, dispositions, public M&A, strategic joint ventures and restructuring) to counselling board members and shareholders on high-end corporate issues. He regularly represents clients in competitive auction scenarios, both as sellers and bidders.

Luca’s clients include industrial corporations, financial institutions and private equity funds operating in a variety of industries such as energy, luxury, telecommunications, manufacturing and consumer. If you need a proactive lawyer with a commercial approach and cutting-edge knowledge on M&A transactions as well as Italian corporate law, no matter how complex the issue is, Luca is here to help.

Luca is able to solve the problems, overcome the hurdles, get to the point, simplify the complexities, explain the technicalities, understand clients' needs and, calmly but firmly, deliver the best deal using skills gained in over three decades of negotiating deals.

Moreover, Luca is author of many publications on corporate matters, including share purchase agreements, directors' liability, leveraged buy-out transactions, tender offers and de-mergers. His technical prowess derives also from his longstanding academic activities, as lecturer on Business Law at the Bocconi University in Milan.