Luca Picone

Thanks to his experience spanning over 30 years, and his cutting-edge knowledge of Italian law, Luca advises clients on domestic and cross-border transactions, providing a practical and strategic approach.

His extensive experience ranges from pure transactional work (including asset and share deals, investments, recapitalizations, dispositions, public M&A, joint ventures and restructuring) to counselling board members and shareholders on high-end corporate issues. He regularly represents clients in competitive auction scenarios, both as sellers and bidders.

Luca’s clients include industrial corporations, financial institutions and private equity funds operating in a variety of industries such as energy, luxury, telecommunications, manufacturing and consumer. Luca is a proactive lawyer with a commercial approach on M&A transactions as well as corporate law.

Luca is able to solve the problems, no matter how intricate the issue is, overcome the hurdles, get to the point, simplify the complexities, explain the technicalities, understand clients' needs and, calmly but firmly, deliver the best deal using skills gained in over three decades of negotiating deals. Luca is constantly ranked in the Hall of Fame for Commercial Corporate and M&A by The Legal500 EMEA and has been repeatedly highly recognized by Chambers & Partners for Corporate/M&A and Private Equity.

Moreover, 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, as lecturer on Business Law at the Bocconi University in Milan.