Founded in 2010 in Milan by a group of professionals with relevant track record and skills acquired within leading financial institutions and industrial companies.
The team of Lyra Partners has been part of numerous deals, providing assistance to Italian and international companies, private equity funds and private shareholders, developing a distinctive know-how in several sectors and/or type of deals.
Role: Senior Analyst
Email: f.montresor@lyrapartners.it
Telephone: +39.0289046535
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Filippo, Senior Analyst of Lyra Partners from September 2022, has significant experience of M&A advisory, with 5+ completed transactions, company valuations and business planning.
Previously, Filippo worked as M&A Analyst in Equity Factory, as auditor in PricewaterhouseCoopers PwC Italy and as Financial Analyst in Leanus.
Filippo graduated cum laude in Financial Markets and Institutions from the “University Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano”, with a dissertation about the relationship between M&A and ESG and he attended a Summer School in Accounting and Finance at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
Filippo is an enthusiast of skiing, football and basketball.
Role: Senior Director
Email: f.frati@lyrapartners.it
Telephone: +39.02.890.465.00
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Fabrizio has been working in the M&A industry since 2006, collaborating with two corporate finance boutiques in Milan (Corporate Finance Advisors and Arner Corporate Finance) prior to joining Lyra Partners. During such period he has successfully assisted several industrial groups in executing their transactions.
He began his career in 1999 working as finance manager at the IPO of Gensoft ITT Spa, an high tech start-up company. In 2002, he moved to AEM Spa (now A2A Spa), an Italian leading utility group, as strategic planning specialist.
Fabrizio graduated in Business Administration from Bocconi and holds an MBA degree from RSM Rotterdam School of Management.
Role: Office Manager
Email: s.marseglia@lyrapartners.it
Telephone: +39.0289046503
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Sabrina works in Lyra Partners as Office Manager since 2020.
Sabrina has been Office Manager for about 20 years now and before joining Lyra Partners she worked in prestigious law firms in Milan (2018-2019 LabLaw) (2008-2017 Lca) and at the Bookshop of Palazzo della Triennale (2004-2008)
Role: Senior vice president
Email: s.dicarluccio@lyrapartners.it
Telephone: +39.0289046520
Mobile: +39.3932319131
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Sabrina has an extensive experience in M&A, financial services, audit and planning and control activities across several global manufacturing industries and insurance companies.
She started her career early in 2005 within the manufacturing audit team at Deloitte. During her career, she has successfully worked in international companies such as Cardif – BNP Paribas Group and the global insurance company AmTrust.
Sabrina graduated cum laude in Business Administration at the University of Naples “Federico II”, enriching her education by attending one academic year at the faculty of Business Economic at the University College of Cork in Ireland.
She qualifying as a chartered accountant and auditor in 2011 and one year later she obtained a Master’s degree in Corporate Finance & Management Control at the Business School of IlSole24ore in Milan.
Role: Insurance Business Advisor
Email: m.contini@lyrapartners.it
Telephone: +39.0289046500
Mobile: +39.3298552721
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Marco Contini, Insurance Business Advisor, lecturer, economist, columnist, strategic consultant for insurance companies, Brokers and MGAs works on international markets in M&A operations, expert in corporate reorganization and corporate crisis management, expert in Insurtech and StartUp development innovative in the insurance field, speaker on insurance and innovation topics, he develops his activity on all insurance sectors (Claims, Underwriting, Distribution, Marketing, Insurtech, Corporate Governance, Corporate Restructuring, MGA).
Role: Junior Analist
Email: m.gambilare@lyrapartners.it
Telephone: +39.0289046500
Mobile: +39.3666662469
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He is also a columnist of the economics page of IBL Istituto Bruno Leoni Blog and of the LinkedIn Private Equity page of Starting Finance (SF).
Before joining Lyra Partners, he worked for the Renault Nissan Mitsubishi Corporate VC, within the Investments department, in Tel Aviv; for the M&A practice of the British Consulting Firm, specialized in the asset management industry, Alpha Financial Markets Consulting and for other Italian M&A boutique such as Fante Group.
In addition to Italian, he is fluent in English, Spanish and French.
Mario graduated in Business Administration from “Bocconi University”. He achieved his Master in Management (MiM) with merit from ESCP Business School, majoring in Finance and Consulting Excellence, obtaining a double degree with City University of London, UniTo and Carlos III University. He was also selected for an exchange program at PUC (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile) in Santiago, on an MBA class.
Role: Senior Vice President
Email: c.tavecchia@lyrapartners.it
Telephone: +39.0289046500
Mobile: +39.3339803286
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Carlomaria has a 10+ year experience of corporate finance, banking and M&A across several industries, including Food & Beverage, Fashion, Industrial Machinery, Logistics, Technology, and many others.
During his career, he has successfully advised Italian and International industry-champions, entrepreneurs, Private Equity funds, as well as SMEs, in executing their transactions.
After starting his career in the Asset Management field first at Julius Baer Sgr and then at Nextam Partners Sgr, from 2013 to 2017 he grew as a Senior Associate at Oaklins Italy, the Italian M&A boutique part of the leading International M&A alliance Oaklins.
He then joined IMI Intesa San Paolo where he was part of the coverage team and held several transactions for key large corporates part of the bank’s portfolio.
Carlomaria graduated in Business Administration from the Bocconi University and obtained his Master’s degree in Corporate Strategy from the SDA Bocconi School of Business.
Role: Managing Partner
Email: f.rossini@lyrapartners.it
Telephone: +39.0289046500
Mobile: +41.795703119
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Fabrizio Rossini joined Lyra Partners in 2022. He is a Senior Advisor bringing his expertise and network in the Equity Capital Markets, Financial Communication and Investor Relations and leveraging his experiences in the Tech as well as Infrastructure industries.
In 2019 he joined RCF Group coordinating their IPO project. Prior to this he worked for WeBuild (formerly Salini-Impregilo) where he led the IR dept. achieving a two-notch improvement for their S&P credit rating and significantly improving the sell-side and Investors coverage. Previously he has also worked at ST-Ericsson, as head of IR, and at STMicroelectronics, Sodexo and the Eni Group, in IR, Finance and M&A senior positions based in Milan, Rome, Paris, New York, Geneva and Lugano.
Fabrizio received an M.A. in Economics, cum laude, from the University La Sapienza, Rome; and an M.A. in International Affairs from the Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Washington DC.
He’s currently contract professor at the Università Cattolica/USI joint Master program in European Studies in Investor Relations and Financial Communication (ESIR). He has co-authored, for the World Resources Institute, Wasting Assets, a pioneering research study in the field of natural resources accounting.
He also currently serves on the board of several not-for-profit cultural associations.
Role: Assistant Office Manager
Email: g.alberti@lyrapartners.it
Telephone: +39.0289046504
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Giulia, Assistant Office Manager of Lyra Partners since July 2022, has significant experience as Assistant Office Manager, Back Office, and Front Office in professional firms.
Role: Internship – junior analyst
Email: p.bontempi@lyrapartners.it
Telephone: +39.0289046533
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Pietro is a student who, after completing his bachelor’s degree in Italy at Bocconi University, is now enrolled in the master’s program in management at ESCP business school.
This path has allowed him to have study experiences abroad (one year in India, six months in England and one year in Spain).
After two internships in industrial companies, in the commercial and administrative-financial departments, he will be with us from April to July for an internship as a junior analyst.
Role: Managing Partner
Email: a.desimone@lyrapartners.it
Telephone: +39.02.890.465.00
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Alessandro has an extensive experience of corporate finance, M&A and restructuring across several industries including packaging, food, chemicals and cardboard manufacturing.
During his career, he has successfully advised both large international companies and family owned businesses in executing their transactions. He has also served as member of the board and investment committee of both financial institution and industrial companies in Italy and abroad.
From 2002 to 2010 he started the advisory business of Arner Group as CEO of Arner Corporate Finance.
He started his career within the corporate development team at Montedison. He then joined Cragnotti & Partners where he was part of the investment team and held several management positions mainly in international companies part of the group’s portfolio.
Alessandro graduated cum laude in Business Administration from the University of Rome “La Sapienza”.
Role: Senior Advisor
Email: g.allavena@lyrapartners.it
Telephone: +39.02.890.465.00
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Giovanni has an extensive experience of Corporate Finance, M&A, structuring of loans and IPO on several industries (e.g. automotive, mechanical, IT and software, TLC) and in Equity markets such as Equity research and market strategy.
During his career, he has successfully completed transactions both of large groups and mid-market companies, over which he has focused over the last 10 years, assisting entrepreneurs, managers and private equity funds.
He began his career in the ’80s in Banca Manusardi as a financial analyst on listed companies, to then move on to major brokers such as SIGE, CIMO and Intersim with increasing responsibilities of analysts’ team.
From 1999 to 2015 he worked in the Investment Banking of Banca IMI, dealing with the origination and execution of IPO and M&A transactions.
Giovanni graduated in Business Administration, specialized in Corporate Finance, from Bocconi University.
