Hogan Lovells continues expansion in Italy with the hire of five Corporate & Finance partners

• Ferigo Foscari 
• Iacopo Canino 
• Alessandro Seganfreddo 
• Piero de Mattia
• Bianca Caruso

The new team focuses on M&A, private equity, capital markets, leveraged finance, and private credit, providing significant additional strength to the firm’s transactional capabilities in Italy and EMEA. 

This also represents another important investment in the firm’s Italian practice: Hogan Lovells has now welcomed over 50 people to its Italian practices in the last year alone.

Hogan Lovells CEO Miguel Zaldivar said, “We continue to bring in high performing partners in key markets such as Italy who value the uniqueness of the Hogan Lovells offering – a fully integrated global elite firm, high quality service, in-depth sector knowledge and breadth of practice. Investing in Italy and the wider FRIS region – France and Spain – is a core element of our strategy. This is an important region for our global firm – our people in Paris, Madrid, Rome, and Milan work closely with many of the firm’s most important clients on some of the most complex work, not only in the region but around the globe.”

“The new group will complement our existing Corporate & Finance teams in Milan and Rome, and will support our approach to delivering excellence in the key hubs across EMEA,” said James Doyle, Head of the Corporate & Finance practice at Hogan Lovells. “The team further enhances 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, added, “I am delighted to welcome colleagues Ferigo Foscari, Iacopo Canino, Alessandro Seganfreddo, Piero de Mattia and Bianca Caruso to Hogan Lovells as we celebrate the 25th anniversary of our presence in Italy this year. The arrival of the new group will further strengthen our practice in Italy and is in line with our commitment to providing sophisticated support to clients across Italy and beyond.”

Ferigo Foscari is recognized as a leading lawyer in securities and M&A transactions and has strong public M&A experience. He has extensive capital markets experience, advising issuers and investment banks in both equity and debt offerings. In the ECM area, he has advised on a broad range of IPOs, secondary offerings, and block trades. In the DCM area, he has significant experience in Eurobonds, Euro private placements, covenanted Eurobonds, EMTN, and GMTN programs for Italian issuers. 

Iacopo Canino is widely recognized as a leading finance lawyer and has worked on a large number of the most representative financing transactions in the Italian market over the past decades, including numerous bank financings, private credit, and high yield transactions. He is particularly versed in complex cross-border transactions and in leveraged finance. Iacopo has extensive experience and focus on private credit and direct lending, having been at the forefront of this fast-growing market since its emergence in Italy. 

Alessandro Seganfreddo is recognized in private equity, M&A, and capital markets. He regularly assists Italian and international private equity sponsors, strategic players, and investment banks on cross-border and domestic transactions in a number of sectors – including healthcare, life sciences, infrastructure, financial services, industrial, consumer, technology, media, and telecommunications. 

Piero de Mattia is a dual qualified lawyer (Italy and New York) with more thanover 20 years of experience in capital markets, corporate and M&A. His practice focuses on IPOs,rights issues, ABBs, RABBs, SBB, convertible and EL bonds, tender offers, private and public M&A transactions. In addition, he provides guidance to issuers and financial institutions on corporate governance and regulatory matters, including MAR and transparency. 

Bianca Caruso has over 15 years’ experience in debt finance, and general corporate and commercial law. She assists both credit providers and borrowers/issuers and private equity sponsors on financing transactions, with particular focus on corporate finance, leveraged finance, acquisition finance and real estate finance transactions. In addition, Bianca has significant expertise in private credit and direct lending, and high yield transactions.  

After the integration of the new team, Hogan Lovells Italy will have a total of approx. 140 lawyers, including 31 partners.