Carlo Pianese

Carlo is an English qualified lawyer with more than twenty years of experience in corporate finance, M&A and private equity. He spen seven years practicing in Europe before moving to Dubai in 2008. He routinely assists government-related entities, strategic and financial investors, as well as founders and exit shareholders on domestic and cross-border transactions across the Middle East, Europe, North America and Africa. Carlo is a member of the Faculty of Postgraduate Studies at LUISS University in Rome, where he regularly lectures on matters of corporate and commercial law in the GCC.

• M&A
• Private equity

• Italian Bar Association

• Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales
• Faculty of Postgraduate Studies at LUISS University in Rome

• J.D. from University of Florence
• L.L.M degrees in International Commercial Law from University of Nottingham