13 Apr 2026
Ropes & Gray strengthens Milan with Fabrizio Scaparro and Paola Pagani
"Ropes & Gray hires partner Fabrizio Scaparro and counsel Paola Pagani in Milan to its private equity and M&A practice; both join from Giovannelli e Associati."
Fabrizio Scaparro has extensive experience advising investment funds and multinational groups on domestic and cross-border M&A and leveraged finance across sectors including healthcare and life sciences, technology, business services, consumer, chemical, food and industrial. His expertise encompasses acquisitions, disposals, leveraged buy-outs, joint ventures and minority investments in listed and unlisted companies, as well as corporate advice, financial markets, debt restructurings and corporate reorganizations. Scaparro joins Ropes & Gray as a partner and is recognised in the rankings of Chambers Europe and Chambers Global for Corporate/M&A and Private Equity, as well as in IFLR1000 for M&A, Private Equity and Capital Markets.
Paola Pagani brings solid corporate expertise and significant experience advising clients on complex cross-border private equity transactions. She joins Ropes & Gray as counsel.
Both Scaparro and Pagani join Ropes & Gray’s Italian private equity team, which includes partners Cataldo Piccarreta, Giorgia Lugli, Luca Maranetto and Alessandro Capogrosso. The Milan office, inaugurated in September 2025, forms part of the firm’s European expansion and its integrated private capital hub across London, Milan, Paris and Dublin.