Sullivan & Cromwell won “Cross-Border Equity Capital Markets Law Firm of the Year” at the TopLegal Awards, which recognize legal excellence in Italy.
S&C has a leading Italian clients practice and a long-standing record of advising many of the country’s most prominent blue-chip companies and financial institutions on complex capital markets and M&A transactions.
Italian clients the Firm has advised on capital markets matters include Ferrari, EXOR, Eni and Stellantis. Current members of the Italian team have advised on the equity offerings of issuers that together now represent over 35 percent of the Italian stock exchange’s total capitalisation. This year, the Firm advised Exor on its euro 3 billion SEC-registered offering of Ferrari shares, Avio on its €400 million Rule 144A rights offering of ordinary shares and Italgas on its €1 billion Rule 144A rights offering of ordinary shares.