Giuseppe Murano

Giuseppe Murano is an associate in our Milan office and a member of the Finance, Funds & Restructuring team. Giuseppe advises banks, corporates, and investment funds on all types of financing transactions, with a particular focus on leveraged and acquisition finance, real estate finance, corporate finance, and private debt, as well as refinancing transactions. Giuseppe works with clients from term sheet to closing, negotiating loan agreements, security packages, and intercreditor arrangements.

Giuseppe regularly supports private equity sponsors, search funds, and their lenders on financings for acquisitions and public takeover bids, as well as large syndicated, sustainability-linked, and state-guaranteed facilities for leading industrial, insurance, and infrastructure groups. Giuseppe’s experience also extends to capital markets transactions, including bond and minibond issues, high-yield notes, and securitization transactions, as well as factoring, and to cross-border deals involving English and Luxembourg law. Over the years, Giuseppe has worked with clients from a wide range of industries, including aerospace, automotive, manufacturing, water utilities, agribusiness, fashion, and retail.

In real estate, Giuseppe helps lenders, real estate funds, and their managers finance the acquisition, development, and refurbishment of logistics hubs, hotels, residential projects, and shopping centers. Giuseppe also brings prior experience in special situations, having advised on debt restructurings, the transfer of non-performing and unlikely-to-pay loan portfolios, securitizations, and distressed M&A, including court-supervised and out-of-court restructuring procedures.

Giuseppe is admitted to the Milan Bar. Before joining Ashurst Perkins Coie, Giuseppe worked for a leading independent Italian law firm in Milan for more than six years, focusing on banking, finance, and restructuring. Giuseppe holds an integrated master’s degree in law from Bocconi University in Milan, studied at Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law as part of an exchange program, and speaks Italian and English.