Stefano Crosio

For more than 30 years, Stefano Crosio has advised public and private corporate clients and financial investors in the context of cross-border M&A transactions. He has significant experience advising North American clients and multinationals in their investments or divestitures in Italy. Stefano's practice focuses on public and private M&A, including foreign direct investment (FDI) regulations, takeovers, transactional private equity, joint ventures (JVs), and corporate governance matters. He regularly advises in the context of tender offers and other extraordinary transactions involving corporations listed on the Milan Stock Exchange.

Stefano's recent experience includes advising North American clients in: (i) the takeover of an Italian-listed industrial component corporation; (ii) minority investments and off-exchange sales of equity interests in Italian-listed health care and automotive companies; (iii) the merger of a client's European cartonboard business with an Italian-listed corporation and subsequent divestiture of its controlling interest to a financial investor; and (iv) several acquisitions or divestitures of Italian companies operating in the industrial, chemical, oil & gas, food & beverage, media, aviation, automotive, technology, and consumer products industries. He also advised an Australian financial investor in the equity restructuring of a leading Italian infrastructure operator.

Stefano is based in the Milan Office but regularly spends time in the New York Office to more closely service North American clients. Before joining Jones Day, he was an M&A partner with Italy's largest business law firm and headed their New York office. He also served as general counsel of a corporation listed on the Milan Stock Exchange.