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

• Eleven of the largest U.S. banks in making $30 billion in uninsured deposits into First Republic Bank
• UBS on the proposed 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 certain 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 acquisition of Eaton Vance
• Morgan Stanley on its merger with E*TRADE
• 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 under section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code 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
• OneMain Financial on its acquisition by Springleaf
• 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