Corporate Finance Advisory
Where entrepreneurial élitemeets advisory excellence.
We advise entrepreneurs, industrial families and funds through the transactions that define a company: acquisitions, disposals, capital entries and exit processes.
The firm in numbers
- €72
- Aggregate value of transactions advised
- 250+
- Completed since 2009
- 500+
- Investors in the international network
- 14
- Countries we have worked in
billion
mandates
funds
jurisdictions
Aggregate value of transactions advised by the firm's partners.
Presence
Seven offices, one standard.
We operate from Milan and from the financial centres where cross-border transactions are closed.
Milan
Office & Partners
- Coordinates
- 45°27' N 9°11' E
- Time zone
- UTC+1
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Where we stand
Advisors. Not consultants.
We work in high corporate finance, and in nothing else. No tax, no accounting, no general advisory: a single discipline, corporate finance, held from end to end. It is a choice of depth rather than breadth.
We know every form capital takes — equity, debt that funds growth, hybrid instruments, private markets, institutional investors and industrial families — and we know how to put them together. Every financial need a company has admits a structure that answers it: the craft lies in finding it, negotiating it and building it to measure.
The distinction is substantive: a consultant produces an opinion, an advisor runs a negotiation and answers for it through to signing.
Why our clients win
Opportunities through privileged channels
Files that never reach the open market, sourced through direct relationships with more than 500 funds and institutional investors.
Faster due diligence
An organised, supervised process with the data room prepared upfront: less friction, shorter time to close.
Targets prepared and aligned
Counterparties arrive at the table already briefed on value expectations and deal structure.
Present after the deal
We stay operational past closing, through integration and the build-up programmes that follow.
The people
Who sits at the table with you.
Two founding partners at the helm, and behind them the structure it takes to close: seven offices, local partners in the cross-border centres, direct relationships with more than five hundred funds. What you will not find is a pyramid — the mandate is negotiated by the person who signed it.
Stefania Motta
Founder & Managing Partner
Financial Advisor & CFO
Value for the market
Graduated summa cum laude from Bocconi University. Track record of corporate transactions, international network, ambition for expansion and sustainability.
Francesco Del Ministro
Founder & Managing Partner
Strategic Advisor & Negotiator
Value for the market
Negotiation training at Harvard. Track record of closed negotiations, expert in high-level dealmaking, international network and a mindset built to close.
The structure behind the mandate
- 7
- Offices and local partners
- 500+
- Funds and investors
- 2
- Founding partners
Milan, New York, San Francisco, London, Dubai, Singapore, Malta.
Direct relationships with the capital that finances the transactions.
Present on every mandate from the first meeting to the post-deal.
Memberships
The tables we sit at.
Not certificates on a wall: these are the rooms where the technical practice of our trade is debated, and where the relationships that later matter in a transaction are formed.
Corporate Finance Commission
Order of Chartered Accountants of Milan
A closed working group of the Milan Order, restricted to professionals with a documented track record in corporate finance.
WIPO — World Intellectual Property Organization
United Nations agency · since 2005
Collaboration on the assessment of economic damages from piracy: quantifying financial harm on an international scale.
wipo.int (si apre in una nuova scheda)Italian Chamber of Commerce in Singapore
Camera di Commercio Italiana a Singapore
Members of the chamber that oversees industrial and financial relations between Italy and South-East Asia.
italchamber.org.sg (si apre in una nuova scheda)
Special projects
The mandates that shaped us.
Five appointments that describe the firm's reach better than any statement: billion-euro banking mergers, valuations of global brands, and industrial projects born from a single insight.
Banca Intesa — Comit
Advisory on the strategic and financial aspects of one of Italy's largest banking mergers, worth two billion euro.
Gruppo Campari
Analysis of group value and brand portfolio, with the definition of strategic positioning across international markets.
Fiat & Sergio Marchionne
Conception of the project to convert the Fiat Multipla into a vehicle for the national taxi service, with a nationwide operating model.
Banco di Brescia
Advisory on the merger of Credito Agrario Bresciano and Banco San Paolo, integrating two historic regional networks.
Siemens Italia S.p.A.
M&A advisory mandate for the group's Italian subsidiary, including analysis of external growth opportunities.
Relationship network
The doors we open.
A small part of our direct relationships with investment funds and institutional investors. It is the channel through which files that never reach the open market arrive.
- AGV SGR
- Quadrivio Group
- DeA Capital Alternative
- 360 Capital
- Abenex
- AKSIA SGR
- Alcedo SGR
- Algebris Investments
- Alkemia SGR
- Ambienta SGR
- Anima Alternative SGR
- Apeiron Management
- Apheon
- Argos Wityu Italia
- Armònia SGR
- Aurora Growth Capital
- AVM SGR
- Axon Partners Group
- Azimut Libera Impresa
- Clessidra Private Equity
- FIEE SGR
- HLD Conseils Italy
- Tier One
- Zest Group
- Clessidra SGR
- Amundi SGR
- Groupe HLD
Partial list.
First contact
Available for a confidential conversation.
The first meeting exists to establish whether we can be useful. If the transaction is not right for us, we say so immediately and point you elsewhere.
or write to us at info@mottadelministro.com