Marco Nicolini is Equity Partner at Alma and Head of the Corporate M&A team.

He previously was Head of the Italian M&A and Private Equity department and member of the Italian Management Board of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and founding partner of the law firm Tonucci e Partners.Marco provides legal assistance in corporate transactions and M&A and is international advisor to leading multinationals. He has more than 30 years of specific experience in providing out-of-court and contractual advice and assistance to institutional investors in real estate and finance, with particular reference to real estate and infrastructure development transactions and related financing. Thanks to his experience in corporate matters, he has been involved in numerous M&A projects concerning acquisitions and divestments of Italian companies by Italian and foreign investors. In this context, his activities include setting up joint ventures, drafting shareholders’ agreements, corporate reorganisation, project finance, leasing agreements, banking and financial advisory and capital markets transactions. Marco has also been involved in numerous transactions in the Real Estate, Energy & Infrastructure sector, in particular in various acquisitions of assets or companies in the infrastructure sector, including both renewable and non-renewable energy plants.

Marco has assisted Italian and foreign companies in listing on regulated markets, in the initial public offering of shares, and in the placement of securities and bonds, dealing with legal aspects; he has also handled relations with the relevant supervisory authorities, in particular Consob and Borsa Italiana.

He provided legal assistance to the Ministry of Economy and Finance in the activities related to the recapitalisation and capital strengthening of Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena as well as the sale of the shareholding held by the MEF in the same, and to Cassa Depositi e Prestiti in the activities related to the Relaunch, Technology Transfer and Accelerator Funds, also dealing with real estate and real estate aspects.