Piero Carbone

Overview

Piero Carbone focuses on cross-border corporate transactions, particularly in the area of private equity. He advises private equity firms on a variety of transactions, including venture investments, buy-and-build transactions, mid-market and large leveraged buyouts and public-to-privates. Piero also advises fund managers on multi-jurisdictional fund raisings. He helps clients with both private and public M&A work, corporate reorganizations, joint ventures and share issuances. His clients include US and European private equity firms and fund managers from a variety of industries, including financial services, real estate, technology, hospitality and fashion.

Results

Represented BlueGem Capital Partners in their acquisition of Pool Service, the leading Italian professional hair care group and owner of the iconic Medavita brand
Represented Blue Gem Capital Partners, a European mid-market private equity firm, in the debt and equity restructuring of Jack Wills, well-known British lifestyle and fashion brand
Advised HIG on the financing of a real estate investment in Italy
Represented Intermediate Capital Group Plc, a British asset manager with over €27 billion in assets under management, in connection with the acquisition of Nadella, one of Europe’s leading producers of linear guides and rollers for industrial motion applications
Represented the QMS Group and its shareholder BlueGem Capital Partners in connection with the refinancing by Bremen Kreditbank Aktiengesellschaft of the acquisition of the QMS Group by BlueGem Capital Partners. QMS is a leading premium skin care brand, founded in 1986 by the renowned German former facial surgeon Dr. med Erich Schulte

Represented Blue Gem Capital Partners LLP, a London-based private equity fund, in connection with the acquisition of 70% of the share capital of Dr. Vranjes Firenze S.r.l., a leading Italian manufacturer and distributor of diffusers, home fragrances and other interior fragrance products
Represented Blue Gem Capital Partners, a European mid-market private equity firm, in the refinancing of the capital structure of one of its portfolio companies, Enotria Wine Group. Enotria Wine Group Limited is the UK’s leading wholesale trade wine specialist
Represented the Italian subsidiary of an Australian group on the issuance and listing of a euro denominated bond
Represented Metric Capital Partners on the investment by funds it advises in Gruppo Bancario Mediterraneo, an Italian regional bank
Represented The Private Clinic, a portfolio company of BlueGem Capital Partners, in a add on acquisition in the UK
Represented Pricoa Capital Group in connection with their debt and equity investment in AMA SpA, which engineers, manufactures and distributes components and accessories primarily for agricultural machinery and off-highway vehicles as well as for gardening equipment
Represented Metric Capital Partners in completing its fundraising for its second pan-European special situation fund in the amount of 465 million
Represented Pricoa Capital Group in connection with their provision of acquisition financing to ArcaTech Systems, LLC and its group, a global leader in cash automation devices
Represented Metric Capital Partners in connection with its debt investment in Genebre Group S.L, one of the leading global players in the fluid controls industry
Represented Metric Capital Partners in connection with their debt and equity investment in Augusta Securities Limited, a UK litigation funding business
Represented Est4te Four Capital in its US fund structuring and subsequent co-investments
Represented a portfolio company of Triton Partners in its global restructuring and expansion in the US and in Asia
Represented a German portfolio company of JZ International in its expansion in the US and UK
Represented Bain Capital in the sale of software Teamsystem SpA to HG Capital for about US$575 million
Represented Bain Capital in the acquisition of the Styron Division of the Dow Chemical Corporation for US$1.6 billion
Represented Institutional Financial Markets Inc. in a sale of US$75 million of subordinated securities to a US bank

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Recognitions

The Legal 500 UK 2016, 2017 recommended in Corporate and Commercial: Private Equity: mid cap
IFLR1000 Financial and Corporate 2018, rated as Notable Practitioner
Association for Corporate Growth (ACGP) 2015, Meritorious Service Award

Community

Member of Law Society of England and Wales
Member of the Order of Lawyers of Milan

Credentials

Education
College of Law, London, Legal Practice Course, 2000
College of Law, London, Postgraduate Diploma in Law, 1999
University of Naples Federico II, LLM, cum laude, 1997

Admissions
England and Wales
Milan

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