Giovannelli e Associati

Managing Partner: Alessandro Giovannelli

Number of Partners: 22

Of Counsels: 3

Other lawyers: 70

Firm Overview:

Giovannelli e Associati is an independent law firm, which combines an international approach with solid local roots. The firm provides high profile legal advice, with a distinctive and innovative approach.

The firm is composed by a cohesive team of lawyers with more than 10 years of experience together in some of the leading Italian and international law firms.

Practice Areas:

• Banking and Finance

• Capital Markets

• Corporate and Commercial

• Investment Funds

• Litigation and Arbitration

• Mergers & Acquisitions – Private Equity

• Real Estate

• Restructuring and Insolvency

• Tax

Banking and Finance

The Firm assists financial institutions and industrial companies in a wide range of financial transactions, through a structured team with a consolidated track record and significant experience in innovative and complex transactions, capable to provide assistance to banks and private debt funds, as well as sponsors and borrowers.

Our practice ranges from acquisition finance and corporate lending, to more complex asset finance and real estate finance structures, project finance and the issuance of bonds or other financial instruments, as well as unitranche financing.

Key contact: [email protected]

Capital Markets

The firm offers market-leading capability on securities offerings of all kinds, advising corporate issuers and underwriters on international and domestic equity and debt capital markets transactions and providing clear insight into regulatory considerations. The firm has also deep experience in public company M&A transactions, spanning a number of industries and representing bidders and target board of directors as well as shareholders in takeover situations. The team has considerable experience acting as international lead counsel and handling complex cross-border transactions. The firm provides comprehensive service for all phases of corporate finance and capital market transactions.

Key contact: [email protected]

Corporate and Commercial Matters:

The team represents financial and industrial clients, both Italian and international, in a wide variety of corporate and commercial matters. The firm provides assistance in connection with any aspects of its clients’ business cycle, with a specific focus on structuring of national and international commercial networks The firm’s corporate activity includes:

- ongoing assistance to public and private companies, including investment companies, portfolio companies of private equity funds, companies belonging to multinational groups or financial conglomerates

- extraordinary transactions including mergers, de-mergers, capital increases, issuance of financial instruments

- corporate governance matters, including advice to directors in relation to extraordinary transactions, managements’ agreements and incentive plans

- shareholder rights

- structuring and organisation of groups of companies

- structuring and implementation of corporate vehicles dedicated to special purposes, including investment companies based on private equity funds models.

Key contact: [email protected]

Employment

The firm provides assistance in matters concerning labour law and industrial relations, both in the judicial and out of court. In particular, the firm deals with:

- employment litigation;

- directorship agreements;

- employment, independent contractor and agency agreements;

- collective dismissal and redundancy procedures;

- reorganisation plans, also with assistance in industrial relations;

- transfer/lease of business or of a going concern;

- labour matters in the context of insolvency procedures;

- stock option plans and employee share-participation;

- workplace safety matters.

Investment Funds

The firm assists domestic and international fund managers in connection with the structuring and marketing of their investment funds, across all the main asset classes, including private equity and venture capital, private debt and loan origination, turnaround e distressed credit, unlikely-to-pay (UTP) and non-performing loans (NPLs), real estate and social housing, and regularly advises them on the legal and regulatory framework of their day-to-day activities.

Key contact: [email protected]

Litigation and Arbitration

The firm provides its clients with assistance in litigation in all areas of civil, commercial and corporate law, bankruptcy and labour law. Partners in particular have considerable expertise in litigations arising in the negotiation or execution of acquisition, investment and joint venture agreements, as well as commercial agreements. The activity of the firm includes all phases of the both pre-judicial activity - and judicial, before the ordinary judicial authorities of each level and in national or international arbitrations, as defenders, sole arbitrators or members of arbitration panels, even in the context of institutional arbitrations.

Key contact: [email protected]

Mergers & Acquisitions – Private Equity

The firm provides thorough advice to private equity funds, investment companies, multinational groups and entrepreneurs in complex M&A and corporate transactions, advising on all stages of the deal, from early structuring to closing. Activity covers a wide range of matters, including:

- acquisitions and divestitures

- leveraged buy-outs and management buy-outs

- venture capital and minority investments

- joint ventures and strategic alliances

- capital increases, issuance of notes, including convertible notes, and other extraordinary transactions

- mergers and de-mergers.

Key contact: [email protected]

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Real Estate

Our experience in the real estate sector, strengthened by a close relationships with professional firm specialized in administrative and urban matter, allows our Firm to provide legal assistance and advice:

- in the purchase and sale of real estate complexes;

- in financing underlying the purchase and/or development of real estate, both on the investor side and on the borrower side;

- in the legal activity for management and maintenance of real estate compouds;

- in ordinary and arbitration disputes relating to pathological situations resulting from real estate development plans or transactions involving the sale of real estate complexes or individual properties;

- in the field of collective investment undertakings (OICR);

- in the management of real estate asset-backed “Non-Performing Loans” and UTP receivables.

Key contact: [email protected]

Restructuring and Insolvency

The Firm deals with debt restructurings and turnaround transactions, providing assistance to banks, funds, financial institutions and companies.

In particular, the team has gained significant experience in cross-border transactions, and it can provide innovative and tailor-made solutions along with the tools acquired from experienced market practice and provided for by sector regulations, including, negotiated crisis settlement, agreements in execution of a recovery plan, debt restructuring agreements and compositions with creditors. The Firm also assists banks and funds in connection with the granting of super-senior financing in the context of distressed M&A, as well as divestment of impaired loans.

Key contact: [email protected]

Tax

The firm is specialised in assisting investment funds and large and medium-sized financial and industrial enterprises on both domestic and international direct and indirect tax matters. It also advises on the tax related matters concerning high net worth individuals and families. There is special focus on tax litigation and pre-litigation. The firm has developed an in-depth knowledge and experience of the tax matters pertaining to extraordinary corporate transactions and to the entire lifecycle of Italian and foreign private equity, private debt and real estate investment funds.

The firm is also steadily member of the board of statutory auditors in industrial and financial companies.

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