Luigi has advised financial institutions, private equity funds and investors in banks and investment banks on a variety of transactions and other matters including:

• Santander on its investment in a JV for a $9 billion Signature Bank mortgage loan portfolio
• Eleven of the largest U.S. banks in making $30 billion in uninsured deposits into First Republic Bank
• UBS on the acquisition of Credit Suisse, creating a business with more than $5 trillion in total invested assets
• JPMorgan Chase in its acquisition of the substantial majority of assets and assumption of the deposits and other liabilities of First Republic Bank from the FDIC
• Bank Leumi on its merger with Valley National Bancorp
• JPMorgan Chase on its acquisition of a 40% ownership stake in C6 Bank
• Morgan Stanley on its merger with E*TRADE and acquisition of Eaton Vance
• Ameriprise Financial on the conversion of its trust company into a federal savings bank
• GE Capital on the rescission of its nonbank SIFI designation, as well as various asset sales
• Strategic Growth Bank on its merger of equals with Sunflower Bank, its spinoff of SG Capital Partners, and its acquisitions of Mile High Banks and New Mexico Banquest
• C1 Financial on its merger with Bank of the Ozarks
• China Cinda Asset Management on its acquisition of Nanyang Commercial Bank
• Morgan Stanley on various non-controlling investments, its strategic alliance and Japanese securities joint venture with MUFG, and the spinoff of its in-house proprietary trading unit, Process Driven Trading
• Green Dot on its acquisition of Bonneville Bancorp and Loopt, and its acquisitions of assets and assumption of deposits from Synovus Financial and GE Capital Retail Bank
• Mizuho Financial Group on the formation of Mizuho Americas, its intermediate U.S. bank holding company, and the merger of its two U.S. bank subsidiaries
• Banco Santander on the formation of its intermediate holding company
• Lloyds Banking Group on its acquisition of HBOS
• Sanpaolo IMI on the €65 billion merger with Banca Intesa
• Citizens Financial Group and the Royal Bank of Scotland Group on Citizens’ $3.462 billion IPO and subsequent follow-on offerings
• Agricultural Bank of China, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China and China Merchants Bank on their IPOs and the underwriters of China Construction Bank on its IPO