Alessandro Villa Corporate & Commercial Lawyer of the Year Italy

Firm Profile

Osborne Clarke is known for its ability to turn legal expertise into practical advantage for clients by applying imaginative thinking to their issues and challenges.

Osborne Clarke International is a team of international lawyers, providing clients with consistently high standards of service, and commercial cross-border

legal

advice tailored to their industry. As national practices,

it is formed of

separate and distinct law firms that combine the very best of OCI with an understanding of the local business environment, in-depth legal expertise in their relevant jurisdictions and a robust sense of their place in the local legal community.

Together, they are Osborne Clarke International.

Osborne Clarke has 14 offices throughout Europe, 4 of which are in Italy, as well as a further office in Silicon Valley, USA (Barcelona, Brescia, Bristol, Brussels, Cologne, Hamburg, London, Madrid, Milan, Munich, Padua, Paris, Rome, Thames Valley).

Through a network of 'best friends' it extends its reach across the globe, particularly in North America, EMEA & Asia Pacific. It has worked closely on matters with like-minded firms (normally experts in its key sectors) in many countries.

About Alessandro Villa

Alessandro is a senior associate of Osborne Clarke based in the Milan office. He has been a key member of Osborne Clarke’s corporate team since joining in 1999.

He has worked in the corporate and M&A areas and spent a period of time in the firm’s Silicon Valley office advising, in particular, companies

interested in expanding their operations to Europe.

His work includes corporate and commercial

assistance, mergers

and acquisitions, corporate finance, cross-border transactions, demergers, equity issues, joint ventures and corporate reorganisations for both public and private companies with a particular focus on international transactions. He acts for a range of clients from large listed corporates to growth companies.

Alessandro is the co-author of the “Repertorio Antitrust" which for the first time codified the decisions of the Italian Antitrust Authority.

Alessandro considers that the key to successful transactions lies in building a relationship and understanding with his clients and developing a thorough understanding of the industries in which they operate. He has worked with many of his current clients for over a decade.

He has acted for key clients such as: Intermonte BCC Private Equity SGR pa, Rotork, Foresight, FAAC S.p.A., Solera Inc., and the most recent work in which he has been involved is advising Intermonte BCC PrIvate Equity SGRpa in the two divestment processes, Rotork plc in the acquisition of the Soldo Srl and in the acquisition of GT Attuatori S.p.A., GT Attuatori Europe Gmbh and Max Process GmbH.

Currently Alessandro is assisting an Italian north-east based in a huge corporate and financial

reorganisation and a

north-American based group in the acquisition of a couple of the Italian companies. Both clients are active in the automotive sector.

Contact

Alessandro Villa Senior Associate E: alessandro.villa@osborneclarke.com

Osborne Clarke Corso di Porta Vittoria 9, 20122 Milan Tel + 39 02 5413171 Fax + 39 02 54131706 Website: www.osborneclarke.com

Osborne Clarke is known for its ability to turn legal expertise into practical advantage for clients by applying imaginative thinking to their issues and challenges.

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