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An overview on listed investment vehicles and club deals in Italy.

by Fabio Ilacqua, NY Managing Partner at Gianni, Origoni, Grippo, Cappelli & Partners; Raffaele Sansone, Counsel Fabio Ilacqua is the...

Italian Banks: Fixing Of The Tail Risks In The Short-Term

by Giovanni Razzoli, EQUITA SIM Equity Analyst Italian Banks are focused on fixing of the tail risks in the short-term. Executive summary...

The Italian governance system facing the pandemic.

by Angelo Maria Petroni, Aspen Institute Italia Secretary General EGPA-IASIA e-conference Public Administration learning & development in...

Cyber Security by Design

The threat of a cyber-attack is one of the greatest risks a business faces today. From financial loss to reputational damage, the dangers...

France Means Business

When Emmanuel Macron was elected to the presidency in May 2017, his victory was greeted optimistically by France’s economic partners and...

SPAC in Italy: a growing phenomenon

The phenomenon of Special Purpose Acquisition Companies in Italy has grown in the past few years. As of 2011, more than 27 SPACs have...

Alessandro Falciai, Entrepreneur

It is the end of the 1990s. Big developments are taking place in the world of wireless telecommunications. Mobile telephony is booming,...

Co-investment: An Effective and Better Way to Invest for LPs and Family Offices

Co-investment has now definitively emerged as a preferred alternative structure for investors seeking access to the Private Equity market...

Cracking the code on Italy’s Private Equity Environment

You have heard before. That often repeated mantra of “Italy? Impossible to make money in that country: stick to food and wine, much...

The benefits of the Italian fiscal system for non-Italians

The Italian fiscal system, unfortunately, does not have a good reputation, either at home or abroad. The main criticisms are to do with...

International investors are faster than Italians when it comes to seizing opportunities in the Count

In the United States – a country I have lived in for many years, where the names of the winner and loser in a Presidential election are...

The Digital transformation will redesign the Italian manufacturing sector

In Italy in recent years there has been growing awareness of the fact that digital transformation actually means redesigning the entire...

Nuclear, the only large scale solution to replace fossil fuel

It has been one hell of a summer. Heat, drought, fire. Historic floods. Ninety–degree heat waves above the Arctic Circle. Sea levels...

"TINA: a heating revolution"

The evolution of detection technologies, simulation models and satellite analysis allowed scientists to define an increasingly accurate...

Space, the Sky is Not the Limit

The US and Italy share a uniquely long history of cooperation in Space. Since the very early days of the Space Race in the 1960s, when...

Italy: efficient market infrastructure to guarantee access to global capital to companies

In times of debate on the role of international investors and on the national economy’s capacity for dialogue with the markets, it is...

For Italian manufacturing companies America is the new China

In the 250 miles from Malpensa to Rimini, there are at least 200 B2B suppliers to global customers doing E200-400 of revenues by Richard...

Europe. My outlook

The weather does not look so splendid in Europe at the beginning of 2019. The slowdown in our economies is undeniable and is also...

Italian luxury fashion brands need to scale up

It would be difficult to imagine a world without Italian luxury fashion houses in 2019 as they are synonymous with seemingly effortless...

Cultural Support as Business Development

Italian corporate leaders have reason to be impatient with American attitudes. I write this as an American, admittedly one bearing...