Biography: Mergers and Acquisitions

Fiorella F Alvino is the managing partner of the firm's Milan office. She specialises in corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, private equity and capital markets with additional focus on international joint ventures.

She has wide international experience in mergers and acquisitions, and has assisted corporate clients and credit institutions in several major international transactions.

She has contributed to several articles on legal issues. She has organised and attended various conferences and seminars on corporate law and private equity.

Alvino was named the leading female business lawyer in Italy, based on a survey of women business lawyers and in-house counsel selected from Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners, both in national and international firms. Alvino was chosen for first place because she was acknowledged as one of the few well-known Italian female lawyers, recognised nationally and internationally.

She has been awarded a special prize by Top Legal magazine as the best female business lawyer in Italy in 2007.

Winner in 2011 of the "ILO Client Choice Award" in the general corporate sector, given out by the International Law Office (ILO) on the basis of assessments conducted worldwide among in-house lawyers of international companies.

A graduate of the University of Milan (honours), she attended the course in legal studies at Salzburg and the programme on the US legal system in Georgetown University. She also received an LLM from Harvard Law School and worked as an intern at Clearly Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in New York.