Global law firm Dentons has appointed Antonella Brambilla as a partner in the firm’s Corporate and M&A practice. Based in Milan, she will focus on the development of the Capital Markets offering in Italy.
Brambilla joins from Chiomenti law firm, where she worked for 15 years, nine of which she served as a partner. She has significant experience in equity capital markets. She assists Italian and international clients in extraordinary transactions of listed companies in regulated and non-regulated markets, public offerings of financial instruments, listings on the stock exchange, takeover bids and exchange offers, as well as corporate governance matters. She also deals with the capital markets aspects of restructuring transactions and with the structuring and establishment of legal entities with special corporate structures such as REIT/SIIQ, SPAC and SIV whose introduction in Italy she contributed to.
Dentons has also added to its Corporate and M&A team in Milan with the hire of senior associate Antonio Legrottaglie. With these last two hires, the team has grown to 21 professionals. In addition, the Firm strengthened its Real Estate practice in Milan, which now includes eight professionals, with the hire of Alessandro Gnoato.
Federico Sutti, Italy Managing Partner at Dentons, says: “Antonella’s hire represents an important step forward in our goal to offer full-service assistance to the capital markets sector, which is showing encouraging signs of recovery in Italy.”
Stefano Speroni, Head of Dentons’ Corporate and M&A team in Italy, adds: “Antonella will help us address our clients’ urgent demand for high quality capital markets advice. Within Italy, we see close synergies between Capital Markets and our wider M&A practice. Antonella shares this vision and we are really enthusiastic about the opportunity to provide clients with a fully integrated service offering.”
Robert Michels, Co-head of Dentons’ global Capital Markets group, says: “To address the increased client demand for equity capital markets work, in particular in relation to IPOs of small and medium enterprises, we have made significant investments into talent in key markets across Europe. We are delighted to welcome Antonella, who will establish our Capital Markets offering in Italy.”
Brambilla says: “I’m glad to be joining a leading global law firm such as Dentons, where I can contribute the experience I have gained over the last 20 years of legal practice in the capital markets sector. Dentons represents a great opportunity for new personal and professional challenges and development.
