Practice
Michael Bosco is a partner in the firm’s Corporate Group. He is based in the firm’s Rome office, which he founded in 2002. Mr. Bosco’s practice focuses on cross-border capital markets, mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions around the Mediterranean Basin, with a particular concentration in Italy. His key engagements have included initial public offerings, privatizations, high yield and leveraged lease financings, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures and the formation and representation of sovereign wealth, private equity and real estate investment funds. He has advised on many of the largest, most complex and most innovative transactions to have been completed in the Italian capital markets in recent years, including various market firsts. Mr. Bosco is cited in Chambers Global Guide to the World’s Leading Lawyers for Business and the International Financial Law Review’s Guide to the World’s Leading Capital Markets Lawyers.

Mr. Bosco joined the firm in 1992 and became a partner in 2001. He was initially based in the New York office, where he concentrated mainly on Latin American transactions, and has also worked in the London office. Mr. Bosco is a dual citizen of the United States and Italy and is fluent in English, Italian and Spanish.

• Various Libyan sovereign wealth funds in connection with pending investments in the United States, South America and across the Mediterranean Basin
• The underwriters in connection with the €3 billion initial public offering of Enel Green Power S.p.A.
• The underwriters in connection with a €4 billion rights offering by UniCredit
• The UniCredit Group in its acquisition of Capitalia, as well as numerous cross-border transactions including its establishment of a $10 billion U.S. Medium Term Note Program (the first DTC-settled MTN program by an Italian group) and an $8 billion U.S. Extendible Notes Program (the first such program established by an Italian bank) as well as its issuance of €1.3 billion in notes exchangeable into shares of Assicurazioni Generali S.p.A. (the largest-ever offering of exchangeable notes involving the underlying shares of an Italian company)
• The Della Valle family of Italy in connection with its investment in Saks Inc.
• Pirelli Real Estate in connection with its €400 million rights offering
• The Sorin Group in connection with various acquisitions and joint ventures in the U.S. and Japan
• Dada S.p.A. in its joint venture with Sony Music Entertainment to form Dada Entertainment LLC, a leading U.S.-based provider of direct-to-consumer digital and mobile entertainment services
• The issuer, in connection with the IPO and Milan listing of Il Sole 24 Ore S.p.A., the publisher of Italy’s leading business newspaper
• Prysmian S.p.A., as issuer, and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners, as selling shareholder, in connection with the IPO and Milan listing of Prysmian S.p.A., a leading global producer of energy and telecommunications cables
• Terna Participações S.A., as issuer, and Terna S.p.A., as selling shareholder, in connection with the São Paulo listing of Terna Participações S.A., the largest privately owned Brazilian electricity transmission company
• ATAC S.p.A., the metropolitan transit authority of the municipality of Rome, in a U.S. cross-border lease of rolling stock assets, the first such transaction by an Italian company (named “Deal of the Year” by Asset Finance International)
• Various investment banks in various tranches of the privatization of Enel S.p.A., the Italian national electricity company
• Eni S.p.A., the Italian national oil and gas company, and the Italian Treasury Ministry as selling shareholder in connection with Eni’s privatization and listing on the New York Stock Exchange
• The issuers and city governments as selling shareholders in the privatizations of Acea S.p.A., the Rome municipal electric and water utility, and Amga S.p.A., the Genoa municipal water and gas utility
• Numerous arrangers and issuers in connection with more than 50 securities offerings by Italian companies including, on the arranger side, Banca IMI, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, HSBC Investment Banking, JP Morgan, Macquarie, Mediobanca, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Société Générale, UBS and UniCredit Markets & Investment Banking and, on the issuer side, Acea, Banca Popolare di Vicenza, Fiat, Fiera di Milano, IES Med, IT Holding, Lottomatica, Marcolin, Mediaset, Mediolanum, MolMed, Philogen, Pirelli Real Estate, Poltrona Frau, Pramac, Snai and Sorin
• Involvement in more than 100 capital markets and M&A transactions in relation to clients in Abu Dhabi, Albania, Algeria, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Egypt, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Libya, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, Montenegro, Japan, Spain, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Ukraine, the United States and Venezuela

• Adjunct Professor of Financial Markets Law, Libera Università del Mediterraneo, Bari, Italy
• Member, The Council for the United States and Italy
• Advisory Council Member, The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies – Bologna Center
• Director, InGentibus Foundation