Rita Marchetti

Ms. Marchetti’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, general corporate issues as well as commercial transactions with a special focus on the hotels, restaurants and tourism industry and real estate transactions. As a corporate and M&A lawyer, she has represented US-based, European and other multinationals in a broad range of M&A transactions in such diverse industries as automotive products, consumer electronics, fashion products, home appliances and fixtures, gaming, medical products and devices and hotels and real estate.

• Assisted a foreign multinational in forming a joint venture, through the acquisition of a 50 percent equity investment in a company owning a high-end luxury estate located in Tuscany, composed of a hotel, a burgh, villas and a golf course.
• Advised a French insurance company in the acquisition of a hotel resort located in the Piedemont Region, currently leased to Club Mediterranee SA.
• Advised a Russian investor in the acquisition (through a share deal) of the Forte Village Hotel & Resort in Sardinia.
• Assisted Statuto Group in the start-up of the new Hotel Mandarin in Milan.
• Assisted a global ultra-luxury hotel brand in connection with the negotiation of hotel management agreements in Italy.
• Advised real estate funds in the negotiation of lease agreements with Burberry and Hermes for their flagship stores in the fashion district of Milan.
• Assisted major global fashion groups in their roll-out in Italy, including the opening of over 40 stores in high streets, outlets and shopping centers throughout Italy.
• Advised a French multinational cosmetic group in the unification in one single site of its industrial plan, warehouse and offices in the area of Milan. The deal included a lease conditional upon the realization by the owner of substantial works on the property before the handover and work to be completed by Albea following the handover.
• Advised a major multinational IT group in the renegotiation of the lease agreement for its office building in the Milan area.
• Assisted a US chemical group in the negotiation of the construction and delivery of its new headquarters in the Milan area.

• Milan Bar Association
• New York Bar Association
• Italian Association of Real Estate Lawyers (AGIDI)