Acquisition finance, corporate and sovereign loans

• Advised Goldman Sachs as mandated lead arranger, underwriter and bookrunner on the €1.8 billion financing of Amplifon's acquisition of GN Hearing from GN Store Nord A/S
• Advised Commerzbank and UBS on the financing of Cicor Technologies Ltd’s attempted acquisition of FTSE 250-listed company TT Electronics Plc, by way of a UK court-sanctioned scheme of arrangement
• Advised BNP Paribas, Intesa Sanpaolo and UniCredit on the €1.8 billion cash facility for the buy-out of the minority shareholders of Italian prime supermarket chain Esselunga
• Advised Ardian and its portfolio business Dedalus on the €270 million term and revolving facilities financing the acquisition of DXC's healthcare software business
• Advised Banco Santander, Citi and a syndicate of 20 international bank lenders on $3 billion multi-currency revolving facilities for the Syngenta group
• Advised UniCredit and Zagrebačka Banka on the €550 million refinancing of Fortenova, the largest vertically integrated retailer in Southeast Europe
• Advised the lender, an ECA and a CIRR-provider on an ECA-covered financing for a Latin American sovereign, financing the acquisition of aircraft from a European aerospace company
• Advised the lenders, an ECA and a CIRR-provider on a €500 million ECA-covered financing for an African sovereign, financing the acquisition of aircraft from a European aerospace company
• Advised a major European bank on an ECA-covered “bank-to-bank” buyer credit financing for a borrower in Ecuador
• Advised Standard Chartered, ING, BNP Paribas, Credit Europe Bank and HSBC on a €300 million MIGA-covered bank-to-bank financing for Türk Eximbank
• Advised the mandated lead arrangers on a €2 billion syndicated (un-fronted) counter-guarantee facility in support of delivery obligations of a European aerospace company
• Advised the mandated lead arrangers on a €1 billion syndicated (fronted) ECA-participated syndicated guarantee facility in support of delivery obligations of a European shipyard
• Advised the mandated lead arrangers on a syndicated (fronted) multi-product, multi-project and multi-currency guarantee facility for Ansaldo Energia
• Advised the mandated lead arrangers on a €1 billion syndicated (fronted) guarantee facility in support of delivery obligations of a European aerospace contractor
• Advised a major European bank on an ECA-covered buyer credit financing of a gas-chemical plant in Uzbekistan

Real estate finance

• Advised the senior lenders on the financing of four Italian logistics portfolios for one of the world’s leading real estate investment funds and its subsequent CMBS take-out
• Advised various senior lenders on numerous pan-European logistics portfolio financings for one of the world’s leading real estate investment funds
• Advised a German bank on a bridge to disposal financing for a shopping mall in Milan
• Advised a German real estate start-up business on a mezzanine financing structured as English registered notes to be issued to a US credit fund
• Advised an international real estate investor on the acquisition financing for an iconic office complex in Berlin
• Advised a German bank on the refinancing of a shopping centre in the outskirts of Milan
• Advised a leading international bank on the financing of the acquisition of an office portfolio in Italy by a leading global real estate investor through a so-called “SPV130-lending structure”
• Advised a leading US investment bank on a financing for a UK REIT to acquire two mixed-use properties in Birmingham and Leeds
• Advised a leading international bank on the financing of the acquisition of a logistics portfolio in Italy by a leading global real estate investor and its subsequent securitisation take-out
• Advised a leading European bank on several financings for a European family office, secured by office, restaurant and residential properties in Central London
• Advised a European private bank on a financing for a UHNWI secured by a villa on Lake Como and a portfolio of listed debt and equity securities

Special situations

• Advised a leading US hedge fund on a post-COVID rescue financing for a pan-European leisure group, several add-on acquisitions and, finally, its distressed sale
• Advised three leading German industrials on the rescue of a common parts supplier in the IT/Tech sector through €700 million of new equity injections and the restructuring of €500 million of bank debt
• Advised a leading US hedge fund on the restructuring of a €300 million private placement by an Italian portfolio company in financial distress
• Advised DEG – Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH (DEG), European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the European Investment Bank (EIB) on a liability management exercise for leading Ukrainian agricultural company NIBULON to support growth and recovery during the Ukraine War
• Advised Banco Santander, BNP Paribas, Commerzbank, Crédit Agricole CIB, HSBC, Intesa Sanpaolo, Société Générale and UniCredit on the up to €900 million syndicated multi-project, multi-currency guarantee facility for Italian engineering company Ansaldo Energia
• Advised the lenders on the liability management exercise of an Italian fashion group
• Advised the lenders on €400 million liability management exercise of an Italian consumer goods company
• Advised a Middle Eastern conglomerate on the financial restructuring of €2 billion margin loan facilities
• Advised a European investment bank on the enforcement of financial collateral arrangements securing several margin loan facilities and connected Italian criminal proceedings
• Advised Citibank as creditor and defendant in the Parmalat insolvency
• Advised the super senior hedge counterparties on the restructuring of a UK CMBS

Credit trades

• Advised UniCredit on a €1 billion synthetic risk transfer with the European Investment Bank
• Advised Suedtiroler Volksbank on the synthetic securitisation of a €700 million portfolio of SME loans
• Advised Barclays on term facilities financing the acquisition of a €1.397 billion NPL portfolio from 53 BCC cooperative and rural banks by vehicles controlled by Värde Partners
• Advised a leading car leasing and financing business on a synthetic securitisation with three leading insurance companies structured as first loss and mezzanine insurance policies
• Advised a leading car leasing and financing  business on three synthetic securitisations structured as credit-linked notes
• Advised a development financial institution as investor on synthetic securitisations in numerous emerging markets jurisdictions