Fabrizio has been a partner at Olswang for 12 years and Head of the Corporate Group since 2007. Fabrizio's experience extends across the entire corporate spectrum including finance, private equity deals, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, company and business sales and international joint ventures.  He is an Italian speaker and advises both UK and US clients investing in the UK and Continental Europe.

As Head of the award-winning Corporate Group, Fabrizio's commercial focus has lead the group's Tier 1 ranking in Legal500 (2011) for its M&A mid-market practice as well as receiving the Law Firm of the Year award at the 2011 M&A Awards.

Fabrizio frequently provides comment in legal publications and has made regular conference appearances in the UK and continental Europe speaking on Mergers and Acquisitions. He was a visiting lecturer on English Law at Milan State University.

Fabrizio is listed as a leading individual within Private Equity in Chambers and Partners, 2011, 2010 and Legal 500, with clients commenting that "he's commercial and focuses on what's important"  and that he has "good relationships with opposing lawyers, which helps to bring about positive outcomes." Chambers and Partners, 2009.

Particular highlights include:

• Advising leading mid-market private equity specialist, Graphite Capital, on two multi-million pound deals including a £100 million buyout of Alexander Mann Solutions, a major independent provider of recruitment process outsourcing from Private Equity group Advent International, and the £22 million management buyout of The Third Space Group, one of London's premier health and fitness clubs;
• Working with global communications giant, Touchbase Group, on the sale of its UK subsidiary, Touchbase Communications, and four Touchbase Worldwide subsidiaries in Ireland, the Netherlands, Spain and France, to Datapoint Holdings
• Advising NYSE-Euronext (Amst) quoted Liberty Acquisition Holdings (International) Company, on the acquisition of a majority stake in the UK's Pearl Group (a closed life assurance business consolidator, now re-named Phoenix Group) for €540 million and the connected complex financial restructuring, involving an aggregate consideration of £4 billion;

• Working with Shazam Entertainment, the world's leading mobile music discovery provider, on Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers' investment from its US$100 million fund;

• Advising one of Italy's largest tissue manufacturers, Sofidel S.p.A., in relation to its acquisition of LPC Group from its family shareholders to created Europe's second largest tissue paper producer with a combined turnover of €1.3 billion per annum;

• Helping US based, Green Bullion Financial Services LLC, trading as Cash4Gold, on its expansion into the UK and the rest of Western Europe;

For additional information on these and other transactions Fabrizio has worked on please visit the News & Deals section of our website.