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Posted on July 7, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 23, 2026
A&O Shearman hires Diego Esposito, former Linklaters partner, to enhance its leveraged finance team in Milan, focusing on private capital transactions.
MILAN (Reuters) -A&O Shearman said on Monday that Diego Esposito had joined its Milan team as a partner for leveraged finance, an area the law firm has been working on strengthening to widen its offer on private capital transactions.
"Diego's arrival is an important step of our growth strategy and reflects our ambition to play a key role in the private capital market, at a time when leveraged finance is essential to support complex deals," said Paolo Nastasi, A&O Shearman managing partner in Italy.
Esposito was a partner at Linklaters in Milan before joining A&O Shearman and his expertise, in addition to leveraged and acquisition finance, includes syndicated loans, corporate lending, high-yield bonds and private placements, the firm said.
(Reporting by Valentina Za, editing by Gianluca Semeraro)
Diego Esposito has joined A&O Shearman's Milan team as a partner for leveraged finance.
Diego's arrival is an important step in A&O Shearman's growth strategy and reflects their ambition to play a key role in the private capital market.
Esposito's expertise includes leveraged and acquisition finance, as well as syndicated loans and corporate lending.
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