Profile
Riccardo focuses his practice on complex transactions in banking and finance (acquisition, corporate, real estate, sport and infrastructure finance) and insolvency (restructuring, distressed lending and debt equity special situations). He regularly advises financial institutions, including major Italian and international banks, investment funds and industrial groups in dealing with domestic and cross-border Transactions.
Riccardo is a regarded banking and finance lawyer recognized in Italy in the field of banking and insolvency by the main national and international legal directories, including Chambers and Legal 500.
Before joining Greenberg Traurig Santa Maria, Riccardo was office managing partner and head of the Italian finance and restructuring Team of International law Firms, and named partner of leading top tier Italian Law Firm.
Concentrations
- Banking & Finance
- Restructuring & Insovency
- M&A – Private Equity
Capabilities
Recognition & Leadership
- Chambers Europe
- Banking and Finance - Band 2
- Restructuring/Insolvency - Band 4
- Legal 500
- "Hall of Fame," Banking & Finance: Borrower Side
- "Hall of Fame," Banking & Finance: Lender or Arranger Side
- "Leading Partner," Restructuring and Insolvency
- Member, Bar Association of Milan, 1992–Present
- Founder and Chairman of Yuki Onlus (mission of the foundation: “destroying barriers” that isolate people through the values of sport)
Credentials
- J.D., cum laude, Università degli Studi di Genova
- Bachelor’s Degree, Economics and Business, cum laude, Università degli Studi di Genova
- Italy
- Italian, Native
- English, Fluent