Giulia has over thirty years’ experience in this industry and specialises in structuring complex transactions. She advises debtors, banks, Italian and international investors on real estate financing, acquisitions, project finance and securitisation, factoring, debt restructuring transactions, bankruptcy law, insolvency proceedings and distressed assets purchase transactions. She has significant experience in debt restructuring in the shipbuilding and healthcare industries. Giulia’s practice also includes infrastructures and procurement with a particular focus on the energy sector.
Giulia has been ranked as a leading lawyer in prominent international legal guides such as Chambers, IFLR 1000 and Legal 500. She was awarded: the "Italian Private debt/minibond Lawyer of the Year" award at the Legalcommunity Finance Awards 2018; the “Lawyer of the Year in Banking” award at the Legalcommunity Finance Awards 2017; the “Lawyer of the Year in Finance Restructuring” award at the Legalcommunity Finance Awards 2016.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
Giulia Battaglia joined the Firm in 1992 and became Partner in 2003. In 1994, she was a Visiting Lawyer at Slaughter and May in London. Since 2024 Co-Head of the “Debt Finance” Practice Area.QUALIFICATIONS AND PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
1992
Admitted to practice before the Taxation Courts, Milan (Italy)
2003
Member of the Milan Bar (Italy)
EDUCATION
Graduated in Economics
Sapienza University of Rome,
Italy,
1991
Graduated in Law
Sapienza University of Rome,
Italy,
1999
Executive Education, Leadership in Law Firms
Harvard University, Cambridge,
2019
LANGUAGES
Italian, English