18/09/2008 Top Legal N. 8 - SETTEMBRE 2008 p. 41
ALL INTERESTED IN THE MATCH
ALL INTERESTED IN THE MATCH
ARIETTI & PARTNERS | IL NETWORK M&A INTERNATIONAL HA SIGLATO 380 DEAL NEL CORSO DEL 2007


For the number one of the consulting company the main Italian firms and particularly the international ones are becoming very sensitive towards this sector of reliable professionals." Arietti & partners often collaborates with d’Urso Gatti e Associati, Pavesio, SJ Berwin and Tosetto Weigmann’s law firms, "but most of our interlocutors come from main Italian firms, particularly those international, more and more.
To help the firms in the research of financial, industrial and commercial partner for the realization of joint venture and to assist the entrepreneurs in the identification of target companies to acquire for the expansion of the own business.
This is the principal activity area of Arietti & partners, the Italian branch of M&A International, consulting company in Mid-market M&A domain, that in 2007 through its own 40 centers world wide it had initialed 380 operations for a business of 21 billion dollars.
The last initialed deal concerns the Belgian Ed-Dis acquisition by Performance in lighting Spa, a lighting company from Veneto. The legal advisors taking part at the operation (whose value is of around 25 million) were Francesco Abbozzo Franzi, of Nunziante Magrone law firm as purchaser and Andreas Bauer, of Gassner Stockmann & Kollegen law firm. "By choosing the legal advisor", Arietti notices, "the entrepreneurs, if they do not have a relationship consolidated with the firm, they entrust themselves present in the operations of Midmarket, a market to which they are becoming very sensitive.

 

   





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