Maurizio Pinto

As senior Counsel in our Corporate Group, I lead the co-ordination and development of our corporate and capital markets team in Rome.

Offering significant expertise in national and cross-border M&A transactions, I advise our Italian and foreign clients on drafting and negotiating acquisitions, shareholder and joint venture agreements and the various legal documents relating to mergers and spin-offs.

In addition, I have significant experience in private equity, assisting either investment funds or shareholders of the target companies.

Over the years, I have assisted our clients in M&A and private equity transactions in many different sectors. I have mostly worked in the banking sector, where I have advised major banks on acquisitions, joint ventures in the bancassurance sector and on significant outsourcing transactions in the Italian market. I have assisted major Italian and foreign clients on M&A transactions relating to healthcare structures and pharmaceutical business undertakings in the life sciences and healthcare sectors. In the energy sector, I have assisted the Italian transmission grid operator on a number of transactions and many investors in the acquisition or dismissal of renewable projects and plants.

I have also gained a significant experience in the drafting and negotiation of commercial agreements, including outsourcing agreements, IT agreements, service agreements, EPC and O&M agreements.

Before joining our firm in 2014, I worked for an Italian firm, and prior to that was with another international firm. I am the author of several scientific articles on share purchase agreements, shareholder agreements and crowdfunding, published in leading Italian commercial law journals.

• Assisting a leading Italian bank in its tender process of selecting an insurance partner, and drafting and negotiating the insurance distribution agreements (December 2018).
• Assisting a leading Italian bank in the acquisition of a company engaged in the factoring sector (November 2017)
• Assisting a leading international pharmaceutical group on the transfer of the Italian businesses engaged in the promotion, distribution and sale of (i) respiratory products (April 2017), women's health products, in the context of the transfer of this business at global level (February 2018) and of (iii) oncology products (May 2018).
• Assisting the Italian holding company of a leading group engaged in the manufacturing and marketing of ammunition in the transfer of 60% of the main operative company, to one of the major Italian private equity funds and in the drafting and negotiation of the relevant investment and shareholders' agreement (January 2018)
• Assisting two private equity funds in the dismissal of the whole share capital of a company engaged in the packaging market to a Spanish group (July 2016)
• Assisting an Italian developer in the dismissal of five photovoltaic plants for an overall capacity of 5 MWp in Apulia (April 2018)
• Assisting an international investor in the acquisition of a number of photo-voltaic plant for an overall capacity of 24 MWp in Veneto and Lazio (May 2018)