International Corporate Finance

INTERNATIONAL CORPORATE FINANCE RANKINGS

ITALY BEST INVESTMENT BANKS

Health & Pharma

The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS KEY LEADERS

LEADING

Rothschild Nigel Higgins (Co-Head of European Investment Banking)

UniCredit Group Gianfranco Bisagni (Deputy Head of Corporate and Investment Banking)

EXCELLENT

Citi Wilhelm Schulz (Head of M&A, EMEA)

Four Partners Advisory Alberto Manzonetto (Partner and Co-CEO), Simone Rondelli (Partner)

Mittel Advisory Rosario Bifulco (CEO)

Piper Jaffray & Co. Graeme Smethurst (Principal, Healthcare M&A)

PwC Marco Tanzi Marlotti (Partner, M&A)

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Banca IMI/Intesa Sanpaolo Mauro Micillo (CEO and Head of Corporate & Investment Banking)

CMC Consulting Group Gabriele Brambilla (CEO)

Essentia Advisory Alberto Arrotta (CEO), Simona Collica (Senior Partner)

EY Vincenzo Bruni (Head of Lead Advisory, Italy, Spain and Portugal) Roberto Bonacina (Partner, Lead Advisory)

Financial Technologies Daniel Dallinger (Managing Partner), Gianluca Olivieri (Managing Partner)

Fineurop Soditic Eugenio Morpurgo (CEO), Germano Palumbo (Partner and Head of M&A)

KPMG Massimiliano Battaglia (Partner, Deal Advisory)

Leonardo & Co. - Houlihan Lokey Matteo Manfredi (Co-Head of Corporate Finance, Europe)

Track record: UniCredit advised on 35

deals in 2015, the highest of any bank in

Italy. Notable deals that the bank advised

on were the acquisition of Pirelli, Pioneer

Investment Management, Sorin Group and

Terni Hydroelectric Complex valued at $8.8,

$3, $1.5 and $1 billion, respectively. The bank

acted as an exclusive advisor on the Pioneer

Investment Management deal.

Team & differentiation: UniCredit is a leading

European bank which has a presence in 17

countries. It has over 143,000 employees,

more than 7,800 branches and an

international network that spans 50 markets.

The corporate and investment banking team

is led by Gianfranco Bisagni, and this sector

contributes circa 19% to total revenues of the

bank.

L eader:

Gianfranco Bisagni

E stablished:

1998

Gianfranco Bisagni

UNICREDIT GROUP: A SPECIALIST IN M&A