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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.

 

Andrea Ughi left NCTM law firm and became an equity partner at Ughi e Nunziante.

After working for twenty years in some of the greatest foreign and Italian firms in Italy, he decided to accept the proposal of joining the firm founded in 1968 by his father, Giovanni Maria Ughi, who passed away last year, and Gianni Nunziante, who is still an Of Counsel to the firm.

«A romantic choice which makes me proud; a big professional challenge, that of having the opportunity of working in the firm co-founded by my father and which is still considered to be among the first-rate law firms in Italy and abroad» declared the lawyer recently.

According to Fiorella Alvino, managing partner of the Milan office, «Andrea’s entry in the firm represents another step in the process of continuity and change adopted by the offices of Milan and Rome of Ughi e Nunziante, which is leading to excellent results in the firm’s development.»

Andrea Ughi is an expert in general corporate and commercial law, he has gained a broad experience in extraordinary corporate transactions and has always had an international vocation, focussing especially on Spanish, English and American clients.

Atlante Private Equity – Fondo di Private Equity, managed by IMI Fondi Chiusi SGR of Intesa Sanpaolo Group has acquired a minority stake in the share capital of Svas Biosana S.r.l., a Campania-based player owned by the Perillo family, active over the last 40 years in the medical device field and, through its subsidiary Industria Farmaceutica Galenica Senese S.r.l., in the production and marketing of injectable solutions. The Group has over 200 employees and a yearly turnover of about Euro 47 million.

The investment was carried out through a Euro 6 million share capital increase subscription.
For the legal aspects of the deal, Atlante was assisted by Roberto Leccese, partner of Ughi e Nunziante, together with senior associate Giuseppe Coco and, for the antitrust matters, by partner Davide Balboni and by senior associate Andrea Marega (formerly with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, Rome office). Atlante has also been assisted by PWC Transaction Services. Attilio Ferrari and Andrea Pedeferri of CFMP advised Svas Biosana on the contractual profiles.