Introduction to STUDIO INTERNAZIONALE
STUDIO INTERNAZIONALE is a Rome based professional association founded in 1999 among lawyers and tax lawyers able to provide legal and tax assistance, with a highly specialized corporate and tax consulting area.
Studio Internazionale offers its professional services to public and private corporations; national and international industrial groups; banking and insurance groups; companies listed on Stock Exchanges; companies operating in the public utilities and energy infrastructures sectors. Studio Internazionale also assists national and international clients starting from the due diligence and negotiation phase to the closing, as well as during the drafting of all types of international trade contracts.
Avv. Piergiorgio Zettera, L.L.M., has obtained his J.D. at University “La Sapienza” of Rome and was then admitted in Italy through the Bar Association of Rome. He was awarded with a LL.M. degree at Loyola Law School Los Angeles and has gained a significant professional experience in first tier national and international law firms.
Among his career stages in the international law firms arena, he served as Senior Associate both in C’M’S’ and Rödl & Partner.
Mr. Piergiorgio Zettera joined Studio Internazionale as Partner in charge for the M&A department in 2014.
He acts as teaching assistant at the Commercial and International Commercial Law courses of the Business School of “La Sapienza” University of Rome. He also teaches at “La Sapienza” University of Rome in the Master Degree course on “International Business Law”.
His main areas of practice are: Energy Law, Corporate and Commercial Law, Mergers and Acquisitions, Project Financing, Banking and Finance, Contract Law (e.g. commercial contracts, international commercial contracts, EPC and O&M contracts), Real Estate, Hotels & Leisure.
TRACK RECORD (referred just to the main deals and advisory activities. Further deals and legal advisory activities not listed herein below have been rendered to further corporations):
2014-2019: on-going legal assistance and advisory activity to Solaria Energia y Medio Ambiente (Spain) in relation to its Italian pv plants and also in relation to its pv plants acquisitions’ plan on the Italian secondary market;
2016-2019: on-going legal assistance and advisory activity to Alkor Capital Group (biotech group – Russia) in relation to its Italian subsidiaries;
2016-2019: on-going legal assistance and advisory activity to GEG Group (tour operator -China) in relation to its Italian subsidiary;
2014-2017: on-going legal assistance and advisory activity to Phoenix Solar S.A.S. (France) in relation to its Italian contractual relations in the photovoltaic industry;
2016: legal assistance and advisory activity to Robinson Club Gmbh (TUI Group) (Germany) in relation to the M&A and financing deals for the launch of a club/summer village in Italy;
2016: on-going legal assistance and advisory activity to Belectric Italia S.r.l. in relation to its pv plants’ acquisitions plan on the Italian secondary market;
2014: legal assistance and advisory activity to Stern Energy S.p.A. (Italy) in relation to the acquisition deal of an Italian SPV holding pv plants;
2014: legal assistance and advisory activity to TRS Energies GmbH (Germany) in relation to several acquisition deals of Italian SPVs holding pv plants;
2012-2014: on-going legal assistance and advisory activity to Unicredit Leasing S.p.A. (Italy) in relation to several financing deals in the photovoltaic industry;
2013: legal assistance and advisory activity to KGAL Group (Germany) for a merger deal consisting in the merger of two Italian companies holding two pv plants having a total value of € 20.000.000 into an Italian subsidiary thereof;
2013: legal assistance and advisory activity to Tantris Capital AG (Switzerland) for an acquisition deal consisting in the purchase of an Italian holding company owner of two SPVs holders of two pv plants for a total deal value of € 6.000.000;
2011-2013: on-going legal assistance and advisory activity to Soventix GmbH (Germany) in relation to its pv investments portfolio in Italy;
2012: legal assistance and advisory activity to Dextella Invest GmbH (Germany) for a Project Financing concerning its pv plants in Apulia-Italy;
2018 – present: member of the board of directors of Serenissima SGR S.p.A. (https://serenissimasgr.it/?lang=eng), one of the leading Italian Real Estate investment funds’ management company.