Advisory
This team is responsible for maintaining close contact with our clients, to meet their needs as they arise and deliver Corporate finance services under mandate.
Corporate finance involves the following activities:
- defining strategic objectives and identifying extraordinary financing transactions in order to help meet them
- extraordinary financing: mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and partnerships, disposals and spinoffs
- liabilities restructuring: earnings/financial analysis of companies/groups undergoing restructuring; working out financial rebalancing scenarios; negotiating with key creditors, etc.
- corporate restructuring: LBOs, MBOs, spinoffs and tax/inheritance-related issues; block shareholder agreements: negotiations with other shareholders, drafting, identifying possible new partners
- company valuations, on a stand-alone basis and for purposes of setting exchange ratios
- relations with authorities: assistance in handling relations with market and regulatory authorities, principally Consob and Borsa Italiana
The division is organized into different Industry teams covering individual industries and geographical areas in order to provide greater focus.
Last update: 9/7/08