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Eliana specializes on domestic and cross-border M&A and corporate finance transactions. Her practice is focused on complex transactions, principally representing private equity groups in their leveraged buyout and growth capital investing as well as corporates, including family and founder-owned companies. She has been involved in some of the most significant private equity and M&A transactions of the past years in Italy, assisting leading Italian and foreign companies and private equity funds. Eliana has broad experience counseling clients in a variety of industries, including fashion, media, publishing, consumer products, manufacturing, and business services. Recent highlights include advising: L Catterton in the sale of a minority stake of Intercos S.p.A. to Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP) Corsair Capital in the acquisition of a majority stake in RGI, an Italy-based provider of software solutions to the insurance market, from Ardian Wise SGR (a leading Italian private equity fund manager) in several acquisitions and add-ons by its portfolio company Imprima (SET- Società Europa Tessile, Aleph, Guarisco Collezioni, KBC, Corob etc.) Bruins Sports Capital in the acquisition of Deltatre (leading Italian media and sport media services provider) Bain Capital and its portfolio company, Wittur, in the acquisition of a controlling interest in Sematic from the Carlyle Group and the Zappa family the founder and shareholders of Roberto Cavalli in the sale of a majority stake to Clessidra ( a leading Italian private equity fund) the founder and shareholders of Dainese in the sale of a majority stake to Investcorp