Bastiaan Wolters specializes in the area of finance. He advises clients on all financing matters, including acquisition and corporate finance as well as syndicated loans, both nationally and internationally. His clients include financial investors, banks, private equity funds and companies.

Before joining McDermott, Bastiaan worked as an associate in the area of finance in a major international law firm.

Mitch DaSilva is an associate in the Transactions Practice Group.

Mitch represents private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, private equity funds, and private companies in a wide range of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, minority investments, equity financings, and restructurings. Mitch also regularly advises clients on corporate governance matters.

Frances (“Frannie”) Sevilla-Sacasa focuses her practice on employee benefits and executive compensation matters, including representing public and private companies, investors, and individual executives and management teams in connection with change-in-control transactions, investments, and post-transaction counseling. She also advises clients on design and compliance considerations with respect to negotiating and drafting executive employment agreements, equity and cash-based incentive compensation arrangements, severance arrangements, and public company disclosures.

Edoardo Testagrossa focuses his practice on corporate advisory matters, with particular experience in acquisition finance, real estate finance, project finance, corporate loans transactions, restructuring procedures and turnaround transactions.

• Provided assistance to a pool of Italian financial institutions in a multimillion financing granted to an Italian food and beverage company for the purpose of refinancing the company financial indebtedness*
• Provided assistance to a pool of financial institutions in the restructuring of the financial indebtedness of an Italian football club by executing a restructuring agreement*
• Provided assistance to an Italian company specialized in woodworking in a multimillion financing, for general corporate purposes, granted from a pool of Italian financial institutions*
• Provided assistance to an Italian bank in a multimillion financing granted to a Swiss company for the acquisition of an Italian target company*
• Provided assistance to a Luxembourgish fund in a green loan intended to finance part of the purchase and development costs of a real estate property*

*Matter handled prior to joining the firm.

Dr. Cornelius Hille advises national and international clients of the financial sector (e.g., credit institutions, investment firms and funds) on all aspects of German and European financial regulatory law. This covers inter alia licensing, structuring and general regulatory compliance regarding both established and innovative business models, including the digitalization of financial markets.

His advisory practice is particularly focused on the area of Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and related compliance.

He regularly publishes on topics of financial regulatory law and AML in legal journals.

Prior to joining McDermott Will & Schulte, Cornelius worked for another major international law firm in the area of financial regulatory law.

• Handelsblatt/Best Lawyers^™, “Ones to Watch” in Germany: Banking and Finance Law, 2025-2027