Giuliano is a Counsel at Trinity Paris.

Giuliano trained and qualified in France. Before joining Trinity, Giuliano was a Senior Associate at Herbert Smith Freehills in the Corporate, Mergers & Acquisitions team based in Paris, and was previously a trainee and an associate at Baker McKenzie in Paris.

Giuliano advises and assists clients on a wide range of public and private, domestic and cross-border, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and capital markets transactions. His experience also includes venture capital and private equity transactions, advising sponsors, management teams, co-investors and companies that are raising funds privately.

He also advises on carbon emission reduction matters, including with respect to the sale and purchase of credits generated by projects that help reduce, capture or prevent carbon emissions, with a view to financing such projects.

Giuliano has advised clients in major transactions in the energy, infrastructure, telecom and automotive sectors. Giuliano also has experience in the forestry, financial services, biotechnologies, information technology and aeronautic sectors.

A native Italian and French speaker, Giuliano also speaks English and Spanish fluently. Giuliano holds a Master in Business Law from the University Paris Descartes (Paris V) and a LL.M. in international financial law from King’s College London.

Key relevant credentials (* including prior to joining Trinity):

A confidential potential buyer on its binding offer to acquire a majority stake in a pan-African logistic services provider (ship agency, terminal handling, customs house brokerage and airport handling & services).

A confidential oil & gas company in connection with the sale of oil assets to a state-owned company in Africa.

FMO on a Series A minority equity investment in Hub2, a fintech company that provides mobile wallet accessibility and payment services in Francophone Africa.

IFC on a significant minority equity investment in Building Logistic Services, a logistics service provider in Morocco and a subsidiary of H&S Invest Holding, a diversified family-owned holding company.

Qair on its partnership with Mazarine Energy for the development of the Feriana solar projects in Tunisia.

A confidential investment fund, on the purchase of verified emission reduction credits from a project developer relating to a forestry project in Madagascar.

STOA on a significant minority equity investment in NetZero, a French company specialised in the production of nature-based solutions and related generation and sale of carbon credits, having activities in Cameroun and other equatorial regions.

A confidential developer of nature-based solutions, on (i) its partnership with a local player on a project of reforestation of approx. 3,000 hectares degraded by intensive agricultural production and cattle ranching in the North of Argentina and (ii) the sale to investment funds of verified emission reduction credits to be generated by the project.

Norfund in connection with their equity investment in Nouvelle MICI Embaci (NME), a company incorporated in Côte d’Ivoire which engages in the manufacturing of corrugated paper and in connection with the LBO financing of such acquisition.

EDF and Meridiam in setting up a project company in Togo to develop a 64 MWp photovoltaic power plant.

Africa REN in connection with the sale of the Walo Storage project (Senegal) to a consortium comprising Metier and FMO.

Eni in connection with the sale to Perenco of oil assets in the Republic of Congo.

A global mining group on the corporate reorganisation of its interests in Africa and the Middle East.

A global mining group on the sale of its majority stake (80%) in a research company in Mali.

A confidential potential buyer on its non-binding offer to acquire a majority stake in a solar project in Chad.

A confidential French car manufacturer on its joint-venture with an Asian partner for the production in France of battery casings for electric vehicles. *

Amarenco, a global independent energy producer, on its successive fundraising rounds (2020, 2021 and 2022), for a combined amount of over €300 million. *

Norske Skog Golbey, Veolia and Pearl Infrastructure Capital on the launching of the “Green Valley Energie” joint venture, a project based on the papermaker site of Golbey, in the Vosges, France (construction of a cogeneration biomass unit to support the site’s transition, contributing to the decarbonisation of the industrial activity and to the reduction of the site’s dependence on natural gas). *

Several confidential investment funds on their risk arbitrage activities (tender offers, reorganizations, special situations, etc.) in France (EDF, Veolia/Suez, TF1/M6, BPCE/Natixis, etc.). *

Cellnex Telecom, Europe’s leading operator of wireless telecommunications and broadcasting infrastructures, on the agreements relating to the sale of c. 3,200 telecommunications sites in very dense areas in France to Phoenix Tower International, a Blackstone portfolio company. *

Cellnex Telecom on various agreements entered into with Bouygues Telecom in order to contractualise, among other things, a new build-to-suit program in France. *

Cellnex Telecom on the purchase of Hivory, a French telecommunications tower operator, from Altice France and KKR. *