We are a young, dynamic and independent law firm, strongly committed to understanding our clients’ business needs and ensuring their success in the environments where they compete. We provide counsel to domestic and international enterprises, private equity funds and investors, banks, alternative asset managers and other financial service providers, offering them a bespoke solution in all fields of business law.
Our core areas of practice are private equity and funds, corporate law and mergers & acquisitions, corporate finance and financial services. Our practice range also covers most other fields of corporate and business law.
We believe our collective experience in sophisticated financial marketplaces, including New York, Brussels, Hong Kong, London and Paris, and our international approach to the practice of law, make us uniquely qualified to provide effective and superior advice to our clients.
Our Private Equity and Funds practice encompasses assisting international investors and fund sponsors in connection with the structuring of onshore and offshore investment funds, international fundraising and financing activities and the structuring, maintenance and disposition of portfolio investments. In particular, we assist fund sponsor clients and their portfolio companies on all aspects of their investments, from the deal structuring to the implementation of the exit strategy.
Our Corporate Law and M&A practice encompasses assisting clients on strategy and structuring of acquisitions and dispositions in connection with a wide range of domestic and cross-border deal and financing models. We assist enterprises and financial institutions in all corporate extraordinary transactions, including leveraged buy-outs, public hostile and friendly M&A transactions, public-to-private deals and equity financing. We also offer legal counsel in connection with ongoing corporate matters, such as the fulfillment of regulatory and antitrust requirements and the structuring and maintenance of corporate governance.
Our Corporate Finance and Financial Services practice encompasses assisting alternative asset managers, banks, other financial intermediaries, underwriters and selling shareholders in transactional and advisory matters. Our expertise covers a full range of areas including international offerings, issuance of various types of equity, debt and hybrid securities and various asset manager-related, banking and other regulatory matters.
Our office is located in Milan at Via Quintino Sella 4, opposite the Castello Sforzesco and next to the artistic Brera neighborhood. The nearest underground stations are Lanza-Brera (located on the Green Line) and Cairoli (located on the Red Line). A cab from the Centrale train station, Linate airport or Malpensa airport would take ca. 10 minutes, 20 minutes and 45 minutes, respectively.
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We believe in meritocracy: our legal and non-legal team members are recruited and rewarded based on their skills, responsiveness and devotion to clients. We are constantly looking for new additions to our team. If you feel that our areas of practice and organization features fit your career aspirations, please email your resumé to us at recruiting@cp-dl.com, or send it to our attention at the address below.
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Here is a small selection of our recent appearances in the specialized press.
- PEI - Private Equity International Publication - Fund Structures 2010, Issue 9: "On core or anchor investors in private equity houses. Cash + Reputational Risk = Everlasting Privileges?"
- PEI – Private Equity International Publication – Fund Structures 2009, Issue 8: “What lies ahead”
- PEI – Private Equity International Publication - The Private Equity Fundraising Compendium, November 2008: “Structuring successful secondaries”
- PEI – Private Equity International Publication – Fund Structures 2008, Issue 7: “Private Equity: a late Italian growth history”
- Milano Finanza, June 8, 2007: "Placement agents cost, but add stamina to the fund raising"
- Milano Finanza, February 9, 2007: "Funds' expenses, commissions and profits: this is how they are divvied up"
- Milano Finanza, January 12, 2007: "New funds: beware of how the rules are written"
- Milano Finanza, December 8, 2006: "The lawyers oversee the first steps of the fund"
