Bio

Former Founding Partner at CPAssociati, a professional association of chartered accountants, Giovanni Maria has gained significant experience as an advisor to companies and groups, also family-run, in the field of extraordinary finance transactions with a particular focus on corporate governance issues as well as tax and assessment aspects related to M&A transactions. In 1999, he was a founding partner of RSC Consulting S.r.l. (now Oryx Finance S.r.l.), a company specializing in debt advisory and financial restructuring, drafting of financial plans and M&A transactions. In 2003, he has contributed to the drafting of the draft law enabling the government to review the national tax system. Financial advisor in the context of debt restructuring transactions, compositions with creditors; extraordinary finance transactions (mergers, demergers, contributions) and company assessments, also in his capacity as a Judge-appointed Technical Expert. He holds, and has held, the office of Director, Liquidator or Auditor in companies undergoing restructuring processes or involved in insolvency proceedings, which operate in different sectors, such as AAMPS S.p.a., Biancamano S.p.a. (waste management), ALGO S.p.a. (automotive) Borbonese S.p.a. (fashion), Bresciano S.p.a. and Edilraf S.r.l. (construction), DEMA S.p.a. (aeronautics), Lucchini S.p.a. (steel) and 400Fifth Avenue S.p.a. (real estate). He acts as an advisor in processes for the redefinition of the company’s structure and the corporate governance of national Groups as well as in the context of Public Purchase and Exchange Offers involving companies listed on the Italian market, to the benefit of companies operating in numerous sectors such as motorway operators, plant engineering and facility management, renewable energy, pharmaceutical, real estate and music; former member of the administrative or control bodies of those same companies or companies owned by them.