Autore: admun2023

Ughi e Nunziante has assisted the European group Akka – which provides engineering and technology consulting services and counts 11,000 employees in three continents – in the acquisition of the company Epsco S.r.l., a well-established Italian business operating in the same sector, which recorded revenues of €18 million in 2014.

Partner Cristina Baglioni dealt with the labor aspects of the transaction, while corporate and contractual matters were handled by partners Roberto Leccese and Giuseppe Coco, with the support of senior associate Camilla Savarese.

Ughi e Nunziante cooperated with Akka’s legal department, headed by Jean-Philippe Laligand.

The acquisition, which is part of the Group’s growth strategy, has served to further strengthen its position in the Italian market, where Akka has now been active for nearly twenty years.

Within the framework of Ughi e Nunziante’s growth strategy, which has always paid particular attention to valuing its internal resources, the attorneys Giuseppe Coco and Andrea Marega have been nominated partners at the Rome office as of 1° January 2015. Both are former senior associates of the Firm.

Giuseppe Coco, who has been working at Ughi e Nunziante for over 10 years, has gained extensive experience in the fields of contract law and corporate law, specializing in private equity, M&A, as well as in the energy and natural resources sector; he is also an assistant lecturer of private law at the School of Law of the University LUISS – Guido Carli.

Andrea Marega, an expert in administrative law and antitrust, had already been part of Ughi e Nunziante as an associate from 2005 to 2007. After a five year experience at the Rome office of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, in 2012 he returned to work at the Firm.

Following the recent entry of Filippo Mazza, who comes from McDermott Will & Emery, and with the nomination of Giuseppe Coco and Andrea Marega, the number of partners at Ughi e Nunziante has risen to 18, a figure that has more than doubled in just over two years.

The Rome office of Ughi e Nunziante grows further with the entrance of partner Filippo Mazza, who comes from McDermott Will & Emery.

Filippo, who has worked at Ughi e Nunziante as an associate from 1995 through to 2000, has gained extensive experience, both at national and international level, in general corporate, M&A, private equity and restructuring. With specific reference to the above sectors he assists clients in litigation, arbitration and contracts matters, both domestic and crossborder.

Filippo is a Lecturer of the Master program in IBL (International Business Law) at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” where he has been an Assistant Lecturer of civil law for years. He has held specialization courses on international commercial law and public offers at other Italian Universities. He is the author of numerous publications on commercial contracts and comparative law.

Filippo is described by Legal 500 EMEA 2014 as “always available and a smart negotiator”, by Legal 500 EMEA 2013 as a “highly professional lawyer” for Corporate and M&A. In addition to ranking in Chambers Global and Chambers Europe 2013, the services provided by Filippo and his team are described as “excellent” in the TopLegal Corporate and M&A survey 2013. Moreover, in a recent TopLegal survey Filippo is described by clients as “thorough and professional”. He is also mentioned by IFLR 1000 2012 and is ranked as a leader in M&A by Chambers Europe 2011.

Ughi e Nunziante currently counts 17 partners.

Ughi e Nunziante has assisted PointPark Properties in the acquisition from LOGISTIS (a fund managed by AEW Europe) of five logistical complexes located in the municipalities of Fagnano Olona, Brignano Gera d’Adda and Castel San Giovanni.

PointPark Properties (P3) specializes in the acquisition, development and management of European logistics properties. The company, which is based in Prague, operates a pan-European platform of 59 warehouses located in 8 countries and owns various land banks with zoning for potential development.

Following a well-articulated share deal and asset deal operation, P3 purchased from LOGISTIS the assets located in the industrial and business heart of Italy, covering a surface area of 170,000 m2, thereby strengthening its presence in Italy.

Ughi e Nunziante assisted Point Park Properties with a team comprising partners Marcello Gioscia and Gianluigi Pugliese, as well as Benedetto Colosimo and Anna Vanni with respect to corporate, real estate and finance matters; Elena Magurano, Camilla Savarese and partner Antonello Lupo provided advice with respect to the fiscal aspects of the transaction.

In May 2014, Antonello Lupo became partner of the Rome office of Ughi e Nunziante.

A. Lupo specializes in tax law, tax planning, reorganizations and company mergers & acquisitions.

He previously worked at Portolano Cavallo Law Firm, and before then he collaborated with other top firms − both Italian and international ones − such as Gianni Origoni Grippo Cappelli & Partners, Macchi di Cellere e Gangemi and Norton Rose Fulbright.

He has carried out research at the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation in Amsterdam and he has been a lecturer at the International Tax Academy.

He is the author of numerous articles on tax related matters, published both in national and international magazines; he was part of the scientific committee of the Rivista di Diritto Tributario from 1994 until 1996 and he contributed to the drafting of the volume “Tax systems of UK and Italy” (2001). He is a member of the executive committee and secretary of the Italian branch of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners.

Ughi e Nunziante currently counts 15 partners.

Ughi e Nunziante assisted EDF EN EN Italia S.p.A. and its French parent company EDF EN SA, both of which are active in the renewable energy industry, in the transfer of two photovoltaic systems located in Priolo and Augusta in Sicily. The PV systems have a capacity of 13,5 MWp and 6,7 MWp respectively.

The team at Ughi e Nunziante which dealt with the transfer included partner Laurence Bulan, senior associate Luigi Cascone and junior associate Pietro Pastorello. The transfer also saw the involvement of senior associate Andrea Marega with regard to administrative issues.

Roberto Leccese, partner at Ughi e Nunziante, assisted Intesa Sanpaolo S.p.A., IMI Investimenti S.p.A. (Intesa Sanpaolo Group) and BNL S.p.A. (BNP Paribas Group) in the transfer of their shares to the corporate capital of Ariston Thermo S.p.A. (previously Merloni Termosanitari).

Ariston Thermo, a long-established Italian company operating in the field of water and home heating, closed the year 2012 with a net profit of 50 million Euros and a revenue of 1.324 million.

The shares of the two bank Groups, equal to 18% of the capital, have been purchased by Ariston Thermo for a total of 104.7 million.