Castellini, Bruno

Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Languages

• English
• Italian

Lawyer Overview

Bruno Castellini advises Italian corporations and foreign investors, including private equity houses, with their acquisitions, investments, and dispositions in Italy and abroad in diverse areas of business, including the financial services and energy sectors. He also has a great deal of experience in capital market transactions, advising offerors and underwriters in IPOs, issues and placement of securities, recapitalization transactions, and public takeovers. He is head of the M&A practice in the Milan Office.

Recent representative M&A transactions include: the sale by the Italian government of its controlling stake in Alitalia, the national airline; the merger between Istituto Bancario San Paolo and Banca Intesa, leading to the creation of Intesa SanPaolo, the largest Italian bank; the acquisition by Al-Rajhi Holdings of a portfolio of Enel industrial and commercial properties; the sale of Moleskine, the high-end market stationery brand by its founding shareholders; the acquisition by Unicredit Group of Hypo-Verein Bank, the German-Austrian banking group; and the reorganization of Le Meridien Group.

Other companies with which Bruno has worked on substantial matters include Apax Partners, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, Dresdner Bank, Gas Plus, Gruppo Iride, Hutchison Whampoa, Mediobanca, Patriarch Partners, Prima Industrie, Schroders, Sorgenia, Starwood, and UBS.

Areas of Practice

• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Capital Markets
• Banking & Finance
• Private Equity
• M&A
• Business Restructuring & Reorganization
• Financial Services
• Buyouts
• Venture Capital - Investor
• Venture Capital - Issuer

Representative Cases

• Citigroup Global Markets acts as advisor in the potential disposal of the controlling participation in Alitalia, the Italian flag air carrier
• Intesa San Paolo acts as financial advisor in connection with the acquisition of Finn-Power Oy by Prima Industrie S.p.A. for $355 million , (2009)

West Practice Categories

Banking & Finance Law, Business & Commercial Law, Business Organizations, Business Successions, Closely Held Businesses, Commercial Banks, Commercial Leasing, Corporate Governance, Credit Unions, Debtor/Creditor, Directors' & Officers' Liability, Dissolution, Formation & Business Planning, Franchising, International Banking, Joint Ventures, Lending & Secured Transactions, Limited Liability Companies, Loan Workouts, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Mortgages & Foreclosures, Non-profit & Tax-exempt Organizations, Partnerships, Public Finance, Reorganizations, Savings & Thrifts, Shareholders' Rights, State & Municipal Bonds & Financing, Trade Associations, Venture Capital

Bar Admissions

• Italy

Education

• U of Genoa - Italy
• U of London - London, UK

Published Works

• Private Equity 2009 - Italy - Getting The Deal Through, 2009
• RoutetoItaly, Focus on Capital Markets, edited by Corporate International, 2009

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