EXPERIENCE

Roberto’s experience includes advising:

Debt Capital Markets – High Yield

• Afflelou on a €560 million high yield offering and €287 million concurrent tender offer
• Omni Helicopters International Group, a leading provider of vertical air mobility services for the offshore, onshore, and advanced air mobility sectors on its high yield debut
• J.P. Morgan in connection with the offering of €200 million 6.625% senior secured notes due 2025 by IM Group, the holding company of the Isabel Marant group, the French luxury ready-to-wear brand and portfolio company of Montefiore Investments
• Evoca, the leading professional coffee machine manufacturer and portfolio company of Lone Star, in connection with the offering of €550 million floating rate senior secured notes due 2026 to refinance existing indebtedness
• Credit Suisse in connection with the offering for the Guala Closures Group, a manufacturer of precision closures for the wine and spirits industry, of €200 million 9.375% senior notes due 2018 by GCL Holdings and €275 million senior secured floating rate notes due 2019 by Guala Closures, the first direct bond issuance by an unlisted Italian company (Shortlisted for IFLR’s High Yield Deal of the Year)

Debt Capital Markets – Investment Grade

• TotalEnergies, a global multienergy company, in connection with:
  • Trans-Atlantic bond financings 
  • Annual updates under its €40 billion EMTN program, including drawdowns of €1.5 billion 1.491% guaranteed notes due 2027 and €1.5 billion 1.994% guaranteed notes due 2032
  • Takedowns under its US Securities and Exchange Commission-registered (SEC-registered) shelf, including US$1.2 billion 2.829% guaranteed notes due 2030 and US$1 billion 3.41% guaranteed notes due 2049
  • The issuance of €1 billion deeply subordinated perpetual notes and tender offer for existing perpetual notes
• Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, a Swedish multinational networking and telecommunications company, in connection with the public offering of US$1 billion 4.125% senior notes due 2020 under its SEC-registered shelf
• LyondellBasell Industries, a multinational chemical company, in connection with the offering of €500 million 0.875% guaranteed notes due 2026 and €500 million 1.625% guaranteed notes due 2031 under its SEC-registered shelf

Equity-Linked Capital Markets

• Simon Property Group, a US REIT, in connection with a €750 million bond exchangeable into shares of a European REIT
• Atos, a French multinational information technology service and consulting company, in connection with blocktrades of shares of Worldline placed via accelerated bookbuilding totaling €2.6 billion and issuance of €500 million senior unsecured bonds due 2024 exchangeable into shares of Wordline, the Paris-listed payments provider (Named as Global Capital’s Structured Equity Deal of the Year)
• Shandong Ruyi Technology Group, a Chinese textiles and clothing company, in connection with the €105 million placement of shares representing 6.3% of the share capital of its subsidiary SMCP via an accelerated bookbuilding and two offerings and related buyback of guaranteed senior secured bonds in aggregate amount of €310 million exchangeable into shares of SMCP (Named as Global Capital’s Asian Equity-Linked Deal of the Year)

Equity Capital Markets

• TechnipFMC in connection with Technip Energies' €1.6 billion SEC-registered spin-off and listing on Euronext Paris and sponsored ADR program
• Maisons du Monde, a European leader in affordable and inspirational homeware, in connection with its €379.5 million initial public offering on Euronext Paris and subsequent sell-downs by Bain Capital via accelerated book builds
• Moncler, the designer of luxury winter jackets, in connection with its €681 million initial public offering on the Italian Stock exchange and public retail offering without listing in Japan
• Salvatore Ferragamo, the Italian fashion house, in connection with its €378 million initial public offering on the Italian Stock Exchange

Liability Management

• The dealer managers in connection with Kapla Holding’s combined tender offer and exchange offer and the initial purchasers in connection with its cash offering of €650 million senior secured floating rate notes
• J.P. Morgan as dealer manager in connection with the cash tender offer in respect of senior secured notes issued by Haya Real Estate
• SMCP, a global leader in the accessible luxury market, in connection with a solicitation of consents to holders of its €200 million 5.875% senior secured notes due 2023 related to reporting obligations
• Credit Suisse in connection with a solicitation of consents and waiver by Guala Closures to holders of its €510 million floating rate senior secured notes due 2021

Direct Lending / Private Capital

• EG Group, the leading independent operator of gas stations and convenience retail chains, in connection with a US$500 million private placement
• The investors in connection with the largest non-syndicated private placement in European high yield history
• Tyman, a leading UK-based supplier of engineered door and window components and access solutions to the construction industry, in connection with a consent and amendment in respect of its US$100 million private placement notes
• Ipsen, a French pharmaceutical company, in connection with its US$300 million private placement notes to refinance the acquisition of Clementia Pharmaceuticals
• BNP Paribas in connection with the €140 million private placement by Unifrutti Financing, a Cypriot agribusiness active in Italy, Chile, South Africa, and the Philippines

Sustainable Finance

• The initial purchasers in connection with the €850 million senior secured sustainability-linked notes offering by Goldstory, a French jewelry retailer
• Digital Realty Trust, the data center real estate investment trust (REIT), in connection with the offering of €300 million 0.125% guaranteed notes due 2022, €650 million 0.625% guaranteed notes due 2025, and €750 million 1.50% guaranteed notes due 2030
• Credit Suisse in connection with the issuance of €295 million 5.25% senior secured notes due 2022 and €185 million 7.375% senior subordinated notes by recycling group Paprec, the first green high yield bond in France
• J.P. Morgan in connection with the issuance of €250 million 5.375% senior notes due 2022 by ENCE Energía y Celulosa, a Spanish cellulose and renewable energy producer

Mergers and Acquisitions

• Imerys, the world leader in mineral-based specialty solutions for industry, in its exclusive negotiations to sell its High Temperature Solutions business (HTS) to Platinum Equity
• Advent International, the private equity house, in connection with US securities law aspects related to its €1.9 billion voluntary public tender offer for Douglas Holding, a Frankfurt-listed perfumes and jewelry retailer (Recognized by FT/Mergermarket Private Equity as Deal of the Year)
• FMC Technologies, a North American company that produced hydrocarbons-related equipment, in connection with its US$13 billion merger of equals with Technip and dual listing on the New York Stock Exchange and Euronext Paris
• Carlyle and fashion house Moncler in connection with Italy’s first-ever dual-track IPO/M&A process (Shortlisted as IFLR’s Private Equity Deal of the Year)

Financial Institutions / Financial Regulatory

• Investors in connection with synthetic securitizations by European and global banks seeking capital relief for corporate and SME loan portfolios
• iQera/Louvre Bidco, a leading debt servicer and debt purchaser in France and Italy majority-owned by BC Partners, in connection with its offering of €200 million senior secured floating rate notes due 2025
• AEGON Funding Company in connection with an SEC-registered retail bond public offering of US$925 million 5.10% subordinated notes due 2049 guaranteed by Aegon N.V., the first Solvency II-compliant instrument in the US domestic market
• Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank in connection with financial regulatory aspects of its offering of US$1 billion additional tier 1 capital certificates, the first perpetual additional tier 1 instrument qualified as an Islamic sukuk (Named Islamic Finance’s UAE Deal of the Year and Mudarabah Deal of the Year)