Expertise
Valerio serves as a Managing Associate within the asset management group based in Dubai and provides guidance to global asset managers regarding the structuring, formation, and ongoing management of private investment funds that pursue a diverse array of strategies, such as buyout, credit, infrastructure, hedge, and venture.
Valerio offers advice to both sponsors and significant institutional investors on a comprehensive range of issues within the investment funds sector, including fund formations, primary investments, continuation funds, and co-investments across a wide spectrum of asset classes.
Previously, Valerio was part of the investment funds practice at a US law firm in London, and before that, he acquired experience with Luxembourg fund structures while working at an independent law firm in Luxembourg.
- Experience
Representative Sponsor Experience
- Advised Incus Capital regarding Incus European Credit Fund IV, with a fund size of EUR 650 million.
- Advised a U.S. private equity asset manager on the establishment of its inaugural private equity fund in Europe.
- Advised a U.S. private real estate investment firm on the creation of its targeted EUR 1.3 billion European sale and leaseback fund.
- Advised a New Zealand fund manager on the development of its master and feeder infrastructure fund structure.*
- Advised a UK fund manager on the establishment of its fourth targeted EUR 600 million real estate debt fund.*
Representative Investor Experience
- Advised Partners Group as an anchor investor representing its clients, alongside Brookfield Asset Management, in a new EUR 550 million continuation fund raised by Lanza Capital (formerly known as Firmum Capital) aimed at acquiring and managing car parks in Spain.
- Advised Partners Group on numerous primaries, secondaries, and co-investments across various sectors, including private equity, real estate, and infrastructure.
- Advised a large Asian sovereign wealth fund on its global investment programme, which includes primaries and co-investments.
Transactions Experience
- Advised Incus Capital in respect of Incus European Credit Fund V, with a fund size of EUR 800 million.*
- Advised Incus Capital in respect of Incus European Credit Fund IV, with a fund size of EUR 650 million.*
- Advised Incus Capital in respect of its Article 9 SFDR fund, Incus European Credit Renewables Fund II, with a fund size of EUR 500 million.*
- Advised Wellington Management in respect of the formation of its first private equity fund in Europe.*
- Advised Wellington Management on the formation of its first private equity climate fund (Article 8 SFDR) in Europe.*
- Advised Partners Group on the formation of multiple commingled and co-investment vehicles.*
- Advised Partners Group as an anchor investor acting on behalf of its clients, alongside Brookfield Asset Management, in a new EUR 550 million continuation fund raised by Lanza Capital (formerly known as Firmum Capital) focused on acquiring and operating car parks in Spain.*
- Advised Partners Group on multiple primaries and co-investments across various sectors, including private equity, real estate, and infrastructure.*
- Advised a large Asian sovereign wealth fund on its global programme of investments, including primaries and co-investments.*
- Advised PIMCO on the formation of a separately managed account for a Nordic investor. *
- Advised a leading Italian asset manager, Aksia, on the formation of its sixth private equity flagship fund in Europe.*
- Advised LCN Capital on the formation of its third European sale and leaseback fund, with a fund size of EUR 1.35 billion.*
- Advised LaSalle on the establishment of its first real estate special situations fund.*
- Advised a leading French asset manager on the formation of a reserved alternative investment fund in Luxembourg with umbrella compartments for the US, EU, and Feeder investors.*
*Prior to joining Addleshaw Goddard
- Education
- Liuc Carlo Cattaneo University, 2015
- The George Washington University, 2016
- Languages
- Spanish (Professional)
- Portuguese (Portugal) (Spoken)
- English (Professional)
- French (Spoken)
- Italian (Spoken)