Mario Santa Maria

Practice Areas

Mergers & Acquisitions

Corporate

International Arbitration & Litigation

Capital Markets

Career

Mario Santa Maria, Co-Managing Partner of the Milan office, focuses on corporate law, M&A, and capital markets. He represents high-profile clients in major cross-border and national M&A transactions, with a specific focus on the pharmaceutical, banking, chemical, automotive, food and wine, and luxury hospitality industries. Mario has also been involved in IPOs, tender offers, and squeeze-outs, while assisting private equity funds, banks, and institutions on complex financial transactions.

Mario has in-depth experience in national and international arbitration under the ICC rules and the rules of the Milan Chamber of Arbitration.

Professional Memberships

-Milan Bar Association, 2001-Present.

-New York Bar Association, 2005-Present.

-International Bar Association, 2005-Present.

-Columbia Alumni Association, 2005-Present.

Publications

Chambers Global, 2020 & 2022.

Chambers Europe, 2015-2020, 2022.

Personal

-LL.M., Corporate and Corporate Finance, Columbia University Law School, 2004; Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.

-J.D., summa cum laude, University of Milan, 1997.