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Michael S. Bosco
Partner
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Education Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., 1992The Johns Hopkins University, B.A., 1988

PracticeMichael Bosco is the co-managing partner of the firm’s Rome office, which he founded in 2002. Mr. Bosco’s practice focuses primarily on capital markets and M&A transactions involving Italian corporations. His key engagements have included initial public offerings, privatizations, high yield, equity-linked and leveraged lease financings, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures and the formation and representation of private equity and real estate investment funds.

He has advised on many of the largest, most complex and most innovative transactions to have been completed in the Italian capital markets in recent years, including various market firsts.Mr. Bosco is included in the International Financial Law Review’s Guide to the World’s Leading Capital Markets Lawyers and is ranked as one of the leading individual lawyers in Italy by Chambers Guide to the Global Legal Profession

Mr. Bosco joined the firm in 1992 and was initially based in the New York office, where he concentrated mainly on Latin American transactions before his move to Italy. He became a partner in 2001. He is a dual citizen of the United States and Italy and is fluent in English, Italian and Spanish.

Recent Experience
Dada S.p.A. in its joint venture with Sony Music Entertainment to form Dada Entertainment LLC, a leading U.S.-based provider of direct-to-consumer digital and mobile entertainment services .
Prysmian S.p.A., as issuer, and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners, as selling shareholder, in connection with the IPO and Milan listing of Prysmian S.p.A., a leading global producer of energy and telecommunications cables .

Poltrona Frau S.p.A., as issuer, and Charme Investments S.A., as selling shareholder, in connection with the IPO and Milan listing of Poltrona Frau S.p.A., a leading producer of luxury home furnishings .

Terna Participações S.A., as issuer, and Terna S.p.A., as selling shareholder, in connection with the São Paulo listing of Terna Participações S.A., the largest privately owned Brazilian electricity transmission company .

The UniCredito Italiano Group in numerous cross-border transactions including its establishment of a $10 billion U.S. Medium Term Note Program (the first DTC-settled MTN program by an Italian group) and an $8 billion U.S. Extendible Notes Program (the first such program established by an Italian bank) as well as its issuance of €1.3 billion in notes exchangeable into shares of Assicurazioni Generali S.p.A. (the largest-ever offering of exchangeable notes involving the underlying shares of an Italian company).

Various investment banks in various tranches of the ongoing privatization of Enel S.p.A., the Italian national electricity company.

ATAC S.p.A., the metropolitan transit authority of the municipality of Rome, in a U.S. cross-border lease of rolling stock assets, the first such transaction by an Italian company (named “Deal of the Year” by Asset Finance International).

The Fiat Group in its $2.2 billion offering of notes exchangeable into shares of General Motors Corporation, Fiat’s first ever securities offering into the U.S. market .

Eni S.p.A., the Italian national oil and gas company, and the Italian Treasury Ministry as selling shareholder in connection with Eni’s privatization and listing on the New York Stock Exchange .

The issuers and city governments as selling shareholders in the privatizations of Acea S.p.A., the Rome municipal electric and water utility, and Amga S.p.A., the Genoa municipal water and gas utility

Grapes Communications N.V., a telecommunications company, in its successful reorganization pursuant to Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code and various financings and M&A transactions
Numerous arrangers and issuers in connection with more than 50 securities offerings by Italian companies including, on the arranger side, Banca Caboto, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, HSBC Investment Banking, JP Morgan, Lehman Brothers, Macquarie, Mediobanca, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Société Générale and UniCredit Markets & Investment Banking and, on the issuer side, Banca Popolare di Vicenza S.c.a.r.l., Fiera di Milano S.p.A., IT Holding S.p.A., Marcolin S.p.A., Mediolanum S.p.A., Pramac S.p.A., Sorin S.p.A. and Telecom Italia S.p.A.

Aedes S.p.A., AIG European Real Estate Partners, American Movie Classics LLC, Ansaldo Signal N.V., BG plc, Cassa Depositi e Prestiti S.p.A., Enel S.p.A., Gtech Corporation, Hyperion Solutions Corporation, Nicotra Industriale S.p.A. and Pirelli & C. Real Estate S.p.A., among others, in connection with various joint venture and M&A transactions and other matters .

Citibank, N.A. in connection with its formation of a Grupo Financiero in Mexico pursuant to the North American Free Trade Agreement and numerous Latin American financial institutions in connection with public and private offerings of equity and debt securities ,

Involvement in more than 100 capital markets and M&A transactions for clients in Abu Dhabi, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Libya, Luxembourg, Mexico, Spain, The Netherlands, Switzerland, the United States and Venezuela.