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Domenico
Fanuele
Partner
Education
Columbia University School of Law, LL.M., 1997
Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali, Laurea in Giurisprudenza, 1993
Practice
Domenico Fanuele is the managing partner of the Milan and Rome offices of Shearman & Sterling and the head of the Italian corporate practice. His practice focuses on private and public M&A, capital markets transactions and strategic joint ventures. He regularly represents investment banks, corporate clients and private equity funds in a broad range of corporate finance transactions. Mr. Fanuele is dually qualified as a U.S. and Italian lawyer. He joined Shearman & Sterling in New York in 1999 after practicing for three years in London with another leading U.S. firm and has been resident in Shearman & Sterling’s Rome office since its opening in March 2002.
Experience
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Aabar Investments PJSC, a company controlled by the International Petroleum Corporation of Abu Dhabi, in its acquisition of a 5% interest in Unicredit S.p.A. and a 3.3.% in Atlantia S.p.A.
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Mediobanca, Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs as Joint Global Coordinators in the €4 billion capital increase of UniCredit
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Mediobanca, Morgan Stanley and UBS as Joint Global Coordinators and guarantor banks in the €3.5 billion rights offering of Snam Rete Gas
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Realty Vailog (a listed company of the Alerion/Reno dei Medici Group) in connection with the cash tender offer for all of its shares promoted by Industria e Innovazione and its subsequent public reverse merger with Industria e Innovazione
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The Board of Directors of Polynt in connection with the take private of the company by private equity fund Investindustrial and the relevant delisting
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Whitehall Funds, a family of real estate funds managed by The Goldman Sachs Group, in its takeover of Berenice and Tecla, the Italian real estate investment funds managed by the Pirelli Group
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Allianz in the sale of Rasfin to Banca Leonardo
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International Chemical Investors in its acquisition of (i) Miteni S.p.A. from Mitsubishi, (ii) Corden Pharma S.p.A. from AstraZeneca, (iii) the manufacturing business of Bristol Myers-Squibb located in Sermoneta (Latina)
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Allianz in the reorganization of its Italian Activities, consisting in the combination of the businesses of Ras, Lloyd Adriatico and Allianz Subalpina in one single corporate entity
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Mediobanca and Merrill Lynch in connection with the listing of Polynt on the Milan Stock Exchange
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Allianz in its voluntary public tender offer on all of the outstanding shares of RAS and the subsequent merger of RAS into Allianz to form the first listed European Company on the DAXX 50
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Gabetti Property Solutions in its reverse merger with La Gaiana. The first reverse merger between two listed companies in Italy
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The Ministry of Economy of the Italian Republic as Italian counsel in connection with the €1 billion capital increase of Alitalia
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Merrill Lynch International and Mediobanca in the €7.6 billion third tranche and the €4.1 billion fourth tranche of the privatization of Enel
Recent Publications
- Buyer Beware – Representations & Warranties under Italian law, International Financial Law Review, November 2010
- Restructuring of Italian listed companies (Crisi d’Impresa e Ristrutturazioni 2010)
- Shake Up the Board – New Italian Rules on Related-Party Transactions, International Financial Law Review, July 2010
- Italian rules on cross-border mergers (Giurisprudenza Commerciale, September 2008)
- The Application of the New Italian Rules on the Protection of Minority Shareholders of Italian Listed Companies – The Opening of the Season for Shareholders Activism?, International Financial Law Review, June 2008
- The Implementation of the EU Directive on Takeover Bids in Italy: the New Italian Tender Offer Rules, Bloomberg European Law Journal, March 2008
- Contributor for Italy to the report of the European Commission on the proportionality principle in the European Union – The regulatory framework for control-enhancing mechanisms, May 2007
Bar Admissions/Qualifications
New York
Italy
Languages
Italian
English
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