Rome
Latham & Watkins' leading Italian practice, operating from the firm's Rome and Milan offices, regularly represents large and mid-sized Italian and international companies and financial institutions doing business throughout Italy. Our Italian practice lawyers regularly handle capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, leveraged finance, insolvency and restructuring and real estate transactions, and also advise Italian and international clients on general corporate and antitrust matters.
Our Italian practice lawyers have extensive experience with both in-bound and out-bound Italian mergers and acquisitions. Our extensive experience with cross-border mergers and acquisitions transactions includes private, public and private-equity backed acquisitions, advice on extending European-based tender offers to the US market and arranging public and private financing of such transactions. In 2008, Latham M&A lawyers handled more than US$315 billion in announced mergers and acquisitions transactions worldwide, representing principal entities or financial advisors in more than 300 public and private transactions.
The experience of our Italian practice lawyers runs the gamut of capital market transactions, including initial and secondary equity offerings, as well as offerings of convertible and exchangeable debt, high yield, Eurobonds, public offerings and investment grade bonds and private placements notes (including US-registered securities, Rule 144A and Regulation S transactions, as well as private placements). The team has acted as counsel in more than 100 offerings of companies covering most industry and financial sectors.
Latham's experience in Italy extends beyond mergers and acquisitions and capital markets transactions. The team has represented various Italian banks and companies on a range of matters, including leveraged finance, insolvency and restructuring and real estate transactions, as well as administrative, commercial law and competition matters. Our clients span most industry and financial sectors, including air transport, airport, automotive, banking, catering, fashion groups and retailers, high tech, household products, Internet portals, luxury goods, media, real estate and telecommunications.
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