Anche in Africa iniziano a regolamentare il Fintech: il caso Kenya Roma, 11 gennaio 2023 – Mario Di Giulio su Huffington Post con l’articolo “Anche in Africa iniziano a regolamentare il Fintech: il caso Kenya”. ‘La crescita tumultuosa del mercato credito concesso in forma digitale in Kenya ha condotto le autorità a regolare il mercato, attraverso l’imposizione della richiesta di autorizzazione all’esercizio dell’attività alla Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) a tutte le società che intendono svolgere servizi da digital credit providers. L’imposizione prevede alcune eccezioni, quali, tra le altre, le banche, le poste e le società di credito cooperativo…
30 Dec 22: BonelliErede and Pavia and Ansaldo in the agreement for the sale of HISI to F2i by Ardian
BonelliErede and Pavia and Ansaldo in the agreement for the sale of HISI to F2i by Ardian Milan, 30 December 2022 – BonelliErede assisted Ardian, a leading global private equity firm, in reaching an agreement for the sale of 100% of HISI, a healthcare and infrastructure investment holding company, to the Ania F2i fund managed by F2i SGR, Italy’s leading infrastructure fund manager, assisted by Pavia and Ansaldo law firm. In the transaction, Ardian acted on behalf of its own managed funds and the Dutch pension fund APG, the largest pension group in the Netherlands and a shareholder of…
Pavia and Ansaldo with Threestones in a new financing with Société Générale Barcelona, Oct. 19, 2022 – The law firm Pavia e Ansaldo, with a team composed of the partner in charge of the Barcelona office, Meritxell Roca Ortega, and the associate Adriano Belloni, assisted the Luxembourg-based fund manager Threestones Capital Management S.A. on the Spanish law aspects of the new financing granted by the French financial institution Société Générale to several companies managed by Threestones in Spain, following a first tranche obtained last July by other Threestones companies in Spain and Germany. Both loans, worth a total of…
Orienta Capital Partners acquires ILMA: the firms Milan, 14 September, 2022 – Orienta Capital Partners, a company specializing in investments in SMEs with a high potential of growth, acquired – in the context of the vanguard project “FA R Evolution” founded on four pillars: innovation, technology, eco-sustainability and digital transition – the majority of ILMA, a business in Cuneo specializing in the design and production of roofs, walls and other wooden structures for traditional and bio constructions. Indigo Capital (also lender of the transaction through a mezzanine bond loan) and the manager Marco Alberani, who has also took office as…
The firms in the round of euro 17 million of xFarm Technologies Milan, 8 August, 2022 – xFarm Technologies, the tech company which through its digital platform supports and simplifies the work of 110,000 farms extended over 1,5 million of hectares in more than 100 countries of the world, is the protagonist of a series B round of Euro 17 million among the more relevant for dimension at a European level in the agritech sector, after the first one of 3 million received in 2019. The new round was led by international investment funds of the tech sector: Swisscom Ventures…
Pavia e Ansaldo with Liguria Region in the completion of the re-acquisition of the bond loan of originally Euro 420 million expiring in November 2034 Milan, 8 August, 2022 – During the month of July, 2022, the Liguria Region formalized the re-acquisition of its bond loan pursuant to article 45 of Law Decree no. 66/2014 for a total nominal amount of Euro 240 milion determining its integral extinction after the preceding phases of buyback occurred in 2015 and 2016. The transaction allowed to maintain compliance with the principle of economic and financial convenience set forth in article 41 of…
Pavia e Ansaldo with Threestones in the financing with Société Générale Barcelona, 4 August, 2022 – Law firm Pavia e Ansaldo, with a team composed by the partner responsible of the Barcelona office, Meritxell Roca Ortega and by the associates Javier Vicente and Adriano Belloni, assisted the Lux fund manager Threestones Capital Management S.A. for the Spanish law aspects regarding a financing released by the French financing institution Société Générale to various companies managed by Threestones in Spain and Germany. Threestones Capital Management S.A. is a management company specializing in Real Estate operating under the supervision of the Luxemburg…
Aksia towards the control of Gommatex Spalmati: the firms Milan, 29 July, 2022 – The fund Aksia Capital V acquired a control shareholding in Gommatex Spalmati S.r.l., a company in Prato specializing in the production of high quality coagulated and smeared materials, innovative, sustainable and highly customizable destined to the main brands in fashion and luxury. Founded in 1960 by the Giovannelli family, Gommatex is a long-established company, a leading player in the production of coagulated, smeared and printed fabrics and in the realization of finishings and nobilitations on denim jacquard materials – starting from raw fabric based on polyurethane…
la Banca d’Italia ha pubblicato la Comunicazione in materia di tecnologie decentralizzate (DLT) nella finanza e criptoattività Il 15 giugno la Banca d’Italia ha pubblicato l’attesa Comunicazione in materia di tecnologie decentralizzate (c.d. distributed ledger technologies, DLT) nella finanza e criptoattività. Lo aveva annunciato Alessandra Perrazzelli, vicedirettrice generale della Banca d’Italia, intervenendo al convegno “La digitalizzazione della finanza tra disintermediazione e nuovi ecosistemi” durante il Festival dell’Economia di Trento: “La Banca d’Italia sarà la prima in Europa ‘o tra le prime’ banche centrali a fornire al mercato indicazioni di vigilanza sulle criptovalute, in attesa dei provvedimenti comunitari”. La…
Il Regolamento Disclosure: tempi e modi di applicazione secondo le ESAS. Il 25 marzo scorso, le ESAS (European Supervisory Authorities, cioè Eba, Eiopa ed Esma) hanno pubblicato la dichiarazione congiunta (“Supervisory Statement”) volta a fornire chiarimenti in merito ad una applicazione coerente a livello europeo del Regolamento UE n. 2019/2088 (“Disclosure” o “Sfdr”) e degli articoli 5 e 6 del Regolamento UE n. 2020/852 (“Tassonomia”) nel periodo compreso tra il 10 marzo 2021, entrata in attuazione della maggior parte delle disposizioni della SFDR, e la data di applicazione degli RTS (“Regulatory Technical Standards”) ancora in corso di definizione. Proprio il…