People

Chiara Carta

Associate
Areas of focus

Chiara Carta focuses her practice on both national and cross-border M&A transactions, corporate governance matters and general corporate law. She advises Italian and international clients on a broad range of corporate transactions, including acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures and corporate reorganizations.

Chiara assists clients throughout all stages of a transaction, from legal due diligence and structuring through negotiation, signing and closing. Her experience includes drafting and negotiating key transaction documents, including share purchase agreements, shareholders’ agreements and ancillary transaction documentation.

In addition to her core Corporate M&A practice, Chiara has experience in banking and finance and capital markets matters. She has assisted clients in connection with financings involving Italian and international financial institutions and has gained exposure to transactions involving listed companies.

Results
  • Assisting an ICT group in connection with its buy-and-build strategy through the acquisition of companies in Italy and abroad active in artificial intelligence, data and analytics, cybersecurity, digital infrastructure, software development and connectivity
  • Assisted a leading Italian engineering and technology group in connection with the establishment of a strategic joint venture with an international company active in advanced nuclear technologies, aimed at developing engineering and technical solutions for next-generation modular nuclear reactors
  • Assisted the sellers in connection with the sale of a company managing a leading marina in Sardinia to an international operator active in the development and management of premium marinas
  • Assisted a global digital asset company in connection with the acquisition of a strategic minority shareholding in the capital of a leading Italian listed football club
  • Assisted a pool of seven leading Italian and international banks in connection with a €550 million financing granted to a real estate investment fund reserved for professional investors and managed by a leading Italian real estate asset management company, comprising a refinancing, a new credit facility and a green facility supporting investments in the fund’s real estate portfolio
  • Assisted a pool of leading Italian banks in connection with a €650 million financing granted to a leading Italian investment holding group for the refinancing of its existing indebtedness and to support the potential increase of its shareholding in a leading Italian listed company
Capabilities and industries
Regional markets
Credentials
Education
  • Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Giurisprudenza, Integrated Master’s Degree in Law
Admissions
  • Italy
Languages
  • English
  • Italian