Luca Picone
Country Managing Partner Corporate & Finance
Milan
Languages
English, Italian
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Overview
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Experience
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Credentials
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Chambers Global 2022Clients report that Luca Picone "is very clever, analyses every aspect in depth, and it is a pleasure to work with him." He handles high-stakes cross-border M&A transactions for clients from the energy, aviation and financial services industries.
Consistently acknowledged as a brilliant and innovative M&A lawyer, Luca has devoted his 30+ year career to advising clients on domestic and cross-border transactions. Luca's extensive experience ranges from pure transactional work (including asset and share deals, divestitures, tender offers, joint ventures and restructuring) to counselling board members and shareholders on complex corporate issues.
His clients include industrial corporations, financial institutions and private equity funds operating in various sectors such as telecom, luxury, energy, food and infrastructure. If you need a proactive lawyer with a commercial approach and cutting-edge knowledge on international and domestic M&A transactions as well as Italian corporate law, no matter how complex the issue is, Luca is here to help you.
Whatever is at stake, if it concerns corporate/M&A, Luca is able to solve the problem, overcome the hurdles, get to the point, simplify the complexities, explain the technicalities, understand your needs and, calmly but firmly, deliver the best deal using skills gained in over two decades of negotiating deals. He heads up a tailored team of lawyers focussed on executing each deal in the most effective way. Luca is ranked as a Leading Individual in Corporate/M&A by Legal 500 EMEA 2019, and has been consistently highly ranked by Chambers since 2006: in 2020 he is ranked Band 3 in Corporate/M&A by Chambers Global and Band 4 in Private Equity by Chambers Europe.
Luca is author of many publications on corporate matters, including share purchase agreements, directors' liability, leveraged buy-out transactions, tender offers and de-mergers. His technical prowess derives also from his longstanding academic activities, for example as lecturer on Business Law at the Bocconi University in Milan.
Chambers Global 2022Clients report that Luca Picone "is very clever, analyses every aspect in depth, and it is a pleasure to work with him." He handles high-stakes cross-border M&A transactions for clients from the energy, aviation and financial services industries.
Representative experience
Advising the Brazilian group WEG in the acquisition of the motion control business unit of Gefran, for an overall value of EUR 23 million
Advising Fressnapf Beteiligungs GmbH that, together with Cinven, by means of a minority investment, acquired Arcaplanet from Permira
Advising Enel in the acquisition by Enel Produzione S.p.A. of the entire share capital of ERG Hydro S.r.l., for an enterprise value of EUR 1,000 million
Advising MicroVention Europe, a French subsidiary of Terumo Corporation, on the acquisition of ImpleMed Italia, an Italian company active in the distribution of biomedical products
Advising IBM Corporation on the global separation and reorganization of its managed infrastructure services business across more than 65 jurisdictions worldwide, including Italy
Advising Dell Technologies in its proposed sale of RSA to a consortium led by Symphony Technology Group, the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board, and AlpInvest Partners in an all-cash transaction
Credentials
- Law Degree, Università degli Studi di Milano, 1992
- Milan