Hogan Lovells adds Andrea Pretti to Corporate & Finance practice in Milan

His arrival demonstrates the firm’s ongoing commitment to supporting clients in Italy and follows quickly on the heels of seven partners joining the Corporate & Finance team in Italy in January. Hogan Lovells has welcomed over 50 people to its Italian practices in the last 12 months.

Andrea has almost 15 years’ experience in private and public M&A and private equity. He regularly assists Italian and international private equity sponsors, industrial clients and investment banks on cross-border and domestic transactions in a number of sectors, including pharmaceuticals, financial services, technology, media, telecommunications, and energy.

“We are delighted to welcome Andrea to Hogan Lovells to further enhance our practice in Italy,” said James Doyle, Head of the Corporate & Finance practice at Hogan Lovells. “He joins one of the largest fully integrated global platforms for complex M&A, private equity, leveraged finance, and capital markets of any law firm.”

Patrizio Messina, Managing Partner for Italy, said, “We are very pleased to welcome Andrea who will be working alongside his former colleagues Ferigo Foscari, Iacopo Canino, Alessandro Seganfreddo, Piero de Mattia and Bianca Caruso, who joined Hogan Lovells last month. The arrival of this new group demonstrates our ambition and commitment to providing sophisticated support to clients across Italy and beyond.”

As well as the five-partner Corporate & Finance team, Hogan Lovells also welcomed a team of 13  Restructuring and Special Situations lawyers in January. After the integration of the new teams, Hogan Lovells Italy will have over 140 lawyers, including 32 partners.