White & Case has continuously been active in the Italian market as well as working with Italian clients for more than 20 years.

Our Italian practice is led by Michael Immordino, Ferigo Foscari, Nicholas Lasagna and Iacopo Canino from our Milan office. The practice is supported by a global Italian-speaking team of more than 60 lawyers.

Our lawyers are qualified to practice under Italian, English and US law, and we focus on equity and debt capital markets, bank finance, restructuring and both in-bound and out-bound M&A, including public and privately negotiated transactions.

We have acted as counsel in major transactions for numerous Italian companies, regional governments and municipalities, as well as for many European corporates, international investment banks and private equity firms, covering a broad range of industry and financial sectors.

In addition, we have worked across the capital markets on both public and private equity and debt offerings, including US Securities and Exchange Commission-registered, Rule 144A and Regulation S transactions.

Some recent transactions our lawyers have been involved with include:

Equity Capital Markets

• Ferragamo's €350 million Global IPO listed on the Mercato Telematico Azionario;
• Intesa Sanpaolo's €5 billion Global Rights Offering;
• IMA SpA's €36,828,000 Private Placement of Reg S new ordinary shares; and
• Enel SpA’s €8 billion Global Rights Offering.

Debt Capital Markets

• Barilla France SA's US$200 million US Private Placement of Senior Notes;
• Intesa Sanpaolo's establishment of their US$15 billion Global Medium Term Note Program; 
• Atlantia SpA’s establishment of their €10 billion Euro Medium Term Note Program listed on the Irish Stock Exchange; and
• Wind Group's €6.6 billion refinancing of its existing senior and second lien facilities and of its existing 2015 High Yield Notes.

Bank Finance

• Enel Group's €10 billion revolving credit facility;
• Autogrill SpA's €750 million revolving credit facilities;
• Pirelli Group's €1.2 billion revolving credit facility;
• Campari Group's acquisition financing to acquire the Wild Turkey brand; and
• Clessidra's acquisition financing to purchase Giochi Preziosi.

Financial Restructuring and Insolvency

• Represented Seat Pagine Gialle S.p.A. in a complex transaction including the reorganisation of the corporate structure and related shareholders’ arrangements, a €200 million rights issue and waivers and amendments in respect of its €2.6 billion facilities agreement with the Royal Bank of Scotland Plc. – Milan Branch
• Represented HIIT – Holding Italiana Investimenti Tecnologici S.p.A. (holding company of Sirti S.p.A. participated by a consortium of investors including 21 Investimenti, Clessidra, Investindustrial, Stella Jones and Techint) in connection with the restructuring of the financial indebtedness of the Sirti Group
• Represented Barclays Capital in connection with the trading of various distressed credit facilities relating to Italian companies

Mergers & Acquisition

• Pirelli’s joint acquisition of Sibur-Russian Tyres;
• Unicredito Italiano on its acquisition of HypoVereinsbank AG;
• PPF Group on its €5.1 billion Joint Venture with Assicurazioni Generali SpA;
• Ali SpA’s acquisition of AGA Foodservice Group;
• Leaf Italia Srl’s acquisition of Cadbury Italia SpA;
• Several acquisitions by Metalmeccanica Tiberina Srl;
• Carlyle and other shareholders in the sale of Moncler SpA to Eurazeo SA; and
• Nomura International Plc as financial advisor to Unifind SpA in the Tier II tender offer extended into the United States for up to €120.4 million in shares of Gewiss SpA.

As the Firm continues to invest in our Italian Practice we are looking to recruit Italian speaking US qualified lawyers (2-5 years PQE) and English speaking Italian lawyers (trainee to 3-5 years PQE) across the Capital Markets, Corporate and M&A practices. We are also interested in hearing from Italian qualified Bank Finance lawyers.

All applicants should possess the ability to develop and strengthen strong client relationships, be team players and look forward to the prospect of being part of a team that expects and encourages business development from an early stage.

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