Alessandro Capogrosso is a highly regarded corporate lawyer with extensive experience in capital markets, private equity, and M&A, particularly advising global financial sponsors, investment banks, and financial institutions on complex domestic and cross-border transactions. He regularly counsels clients on private and public M&A, business combinations, take-private, tender offers, leveraged buy-outs, IPOs, rights issues and private placements of securities, across Italy and Europe.
Clients value his ability to “understand the financial needs and economic desires of clients, and propose innovative solutions and structures (thinking outside the box), as well as new financial funding structures and instruments, which have since become market standards.” They also appreciate his “strong ability to manage and coordinate the different multi-disciplinary profiles of financial transactions and complex projects, with a clear understanding of financial profiles and the functioning of capital markets” (The Legal 500 EMEA – 2023).
Experience
- Represented the CEO and the management team of Acqua & Sapone, a leading Italian household and personal care retailer, in connection with the acquisition by TDR Capital*
- Represented Advent International, Bain Capital, and Clessidra in the exit process via accelerated book-building from BFF Bank, a leading European B2B Specialty Finance bank*
- Represented Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, one of the Italy’s largest banking groups and the world’s oldest bank, in the partial non-proportional demerger with asymmetric option of a compendium of non-performing exposures in favor of AMCO*
- Represented Brookfield AM in the acquisition of Fosber, a leading global designer, manufacturer, and installer of advanced corrugator lines and machinery for the corrugated packaging industry*
- Represented Cerved, Italy's leading data intelligence, credit management, and risk assessment company, in the hostile voluntary tender offer launched by ION*
- Represented the Della Valle Family in the sale of a minority stake in Tod’s, a leading Italian luxury goods group, to L Catterton, and on the tender offer aimed at delisting the company*
- Represented Eurocommercial Properties, a publicly listed owner and operator of shopping centers across Europe, in its secondary listing on Euronext Milan*
- Represented FSI SGR (and its portfolio company Retex) in the take-private of Alkemy, a listed Marketing Technology (MarTech) group*
- Represented H.I.G. Capital in
- the acquisition of Polygon, a leading provider of integrated management of medical equipment in Italy and Spain*
- the acquisition of Sincronis, a company operating in the biomedical technology sector*
- the take-private of A.L.A., a leading global provider of logistics services to the aerospace and defense industries*
- Represented Italo-NTV, Italy's private high-speed rail operator, in its dual-track IPO and sale process, resulting in the sale to Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP)*
- Represented the Independent Directors of La Doria, a leading international food company, in the mandatory tender offer launched by Investindustrial*
- Represented Mediobanca and ALP.I in the initial public offering and listing of ALP.I, a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), and following business combination with Antares Vision, a world leader in track and trace solutions for pharmaceuticals products*
- Represented MFE-MediaForEurope, a leading private operator in the European broadcasting sector, in
- take-private of Mediaset España Comunicación*
- the implementation and listing on Euronext Milan of the dual-class shares structure*
- Represented MZ Holding in the take-private of MZBG (Segafredo), a world leader in the production, processing and marketing of roasted coffee*
- Represented Nexi, a major European paytech group, in its initial public offering and listing on Euronext Milan*
- Represented Retelit, one of the leaders in Italy in the Telecommunications, in the tender offer launched by Asterion Industrial Partners*
- Represented TDR Capital in the sale of NKD Group, a European market-leading discount retailer, to Mr. Price*
- Represented UBI Banca, one of Italy’s largest banking groups, in the hostile takeover offer launched by Intesa Sanpaolo*
* Experience prior to joining Ropes & Gray