Francesca
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Partner
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Francesca is a partner in LCA’s Corporate M&A department and has twenty years of experience in domestic and cross-border M&A and private equity transactions.

Throughout her career, she has advised private equity funds, institutional clients, public and private companies, and entrepreneurs on M&A transactions, leveraged buyouts, joint ventures, and special transactions, handling major deals in the industrial, financial, energy, infrastructure, and life sciences sectors.

She is dual-licensed in Italy and New York, where she studied and worked from 2007 to 2010, gaining specific experience in advising Italian and U.S. investors on cross-border investment transactions between the two countries.

Francesca joined the firm in September 2026.

Previously, she worked in the corporate/M&A departments of leading Italian and international law firms, both in Italy and in the United States.

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