Global law firm Hogan Lovells is adding a Corporate & Finance team based in Milan consisting of five Partners who will focus on M&A, private equity, capital markets, leveraged finance, and private credit in Italy and EMEA.
The nee Partners are: Ferigo Foscari, Iacopo Canino, Alessandro Seganfreddo, Piero de Mattia, and Bianca Caruso.
Hogan Lovells has now welcomed over 50 people to its Italian practices in the last year alone.
Foscari will focus on securities and M&A transactions and brings strong public M&A and capital markets experience, advising issuers and investment banks in both equity and debt offerings.
Canino has worked on a large number of the most representative financing transactions in the Italian market over the past decades, including numerous bank financings, private credit, and high yield transactions.
Seganfreddo focusses on private equity, M&A, and capital markets, and regularly assists Italian and international private equity sponsors, strategic players, and investment banks on cross-border and domestic transactions in a number of sectors – including healthcare, life sciences, infrastructure, financial services, industrial, consumer, technology, media, and telecommunications.
De Mattia is a dual qualified lawyer (Italy and New York) with over 20 years of experience in capital markets, corporate and M&A.
Caruso has over 15 years’ experience in debt finance, and general corporate and commercial law. She assists both credit providers and borrowers/issuers and private equity sponsors on financing transactions, with particular focus on corporate finance, leveraged finance, acquisition finance, and real estate finance transactions.
Following the integration of the new team, Hogan Lovells Italy will have a total of approximately 140 lawyers, including 31 partners.
