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, Hutchison Whampoa, Patriarch Partners, Gruppo Iride, Prima Industrie, Sorgenia, Citigroup, Dresdner Bank, Mediobanca, Deutsche Bank, UBS, Gas Plus, Schroders, and Starwood.

Areas of Practice

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

Representative Cases

• Acquisition of Finn-Power Oy , (2008)

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

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