Fiorella F Alvino

Fiorella F. Alvino is a partner of the firm’s Milan office. She specialises in mergers and acquisitions, and private equity, with additional focus on the energy, oil and gas sectors and advising developers, lenders and investors from Europe, US and Africa across Italy on corporate transactions, project finance, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and all aspects of investments.

She has wide international experience and has assisted corporate clients and credit institutions in several major international transactions. In 2020 she led the acquisition team in a number of major transactions in different sectors, involving also corporate governance in the context of international acquisitions. She also assists major clients in the luxury goods and fine art sectors.

She has contributed to several articles on legal issues. She has organised and attended various conferences and seminars on corporate law, private equity and art law. Fiorella Alvino was named the leading female business lawyer in Italy, based on a survey of women business lawyers and in-house counsel selected by The Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners, both in national and international firms. She was ranked in the top tier thanks to her reputation as one of the few Italian female lawyers recognised both nationally and internationally.

She is the recipient of an International Law Office Client Choice Award (in the general corporate category), awarded on the basis of internationally conducted surveys of inhouse lawyers at major global companies.

An honours graduate of the University of Milan, she studied law at Salzburg and the US legal system at Georgetown University. She also received an LLM from Harvard Law School and worked as an intern at Clearly Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in New York.