Crosio, Stefano

Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Languages

• English
• Italian

Lawyer Overview

Stefano Crosio's practice focuses on transactional private equity, mergers and acquisitions, tender offers, and general corporate law.

Stefano advises strategic and financial investors, as well as investment banks, in acquisitions and dispositions, including several major cross-border transactions in a variety of industries, such as telecommunications, renewable energy, information technology, hospitality, fashion, apparel, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, consumer products, banking and financial services, logistics, and real estate. He advises in the context of tender offers and reorganizations or combinations of corporations listed on the Milan stock exchange. He also regularly advises hedge funds and other financial institutions on Italian capital markets regulations.

Stefano's recent experience includes advising a Canadian-listed corporation in the merger of its European recycled carton board operations with an Italian-listed corporation, a U.S.-listed corporation in the sale of one of its European apparel divisions, a U.S.-listed corporation in the divestment of its interest in an Italian group of companies operating in the renewable energy sector, and a major investment bank in the delisting of an Italian telecommunications corporation through its merger with a private company.

Before joining Jones Day, Stefano was a partner with Italy's largest business law firm, Gianni, Origoni, Grippo & Partners and was head of their New York office from 2004 to 2006. He also was an international associate with Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in New York. From 1997 to 1999 he served as general counsel of a corporation listed on the Milan stock exchange.

Areas of Practice

• Private Equity
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Buyouts
• M&A

Representative Cases

• Bridgestone sells 100% of the shares of Bridgestone’s Italian and Chinese steel cord manufacturing subsidiaries to Belgian-based NV Bekaert SA , (2010)
• Cascades merges with Reno De Medici for $101 million , (2009)
• Concateno completes tender offer for Cozart plc
• Riverside acquires SPX Air Filtration Limited

West Practice Categories

Banking & Finance Law, Business Organizations, Business Successions, Closely Held Businesses, Corporate Governance, Directors' & Officers' Liability, Dissolution, Formation & Business Planning, Franchising, Joint Ventures, Lending & Secured Transactions, Limited Liability Companies, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Non-profit & Tax-exempt Organizations, Partnerships, Reorganizations, Shareholders' Rights, Trade Associations, Venture Capital

Bar Admissions

• Italy

Education

• U of Genova - Genova, Italy

Published Works

• Private Equity 2009 - Italy - Getting The Deal Through, 2009
• Tender Offers in Italy, 2007

Address

Via Turati, 16/18
20121 Milan, Italy

Phones

39.02.7645.4001 (Business Phone)

Faxes

39.02.7645.4400 (Business Fax)

Emails

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Websites

http://www.jonesday.com