Italian law firm Gianni, Origoni, Grippo, Cappelli & Partners (GOP) has added a team of 15 lawyers, including seven partners, to its Rome and Milan offices.

The team will be led by partners Antonio Segni and Andrea Mazziotti and include nonequity partners Ruggero Gambarota, Federico Loizzo, Livia Caldarola, Stefano Cirino Pomicino and Antonio Amoroso.

The move was made to boost the firm's capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate finance practices, the firm said.

Segni has extensive experience in corporate finance, capital markets and M&A. He also has extensive expertise in privatizations, corporate governance and setting up private equity and real estate funds.

Before joining Lombardi Segni e Associati and becoming a name partner, he founded Labruna Mazziotti Segni in 2006 together with Mazziotti. Before this, he worked in the legal department of CONSOB, the Italian financial markets regulator, from 1989 to 1994.

Mazzioti has broad experience in M&A, corporate finance and private equity as well as in the restructuring of distressed companies. Before becoming one of the founding partners of Labruna Mazziotti Segni, Andrea was a partner at GOP and previously at Baker McKenzie.

With the addition of the new team of lawyers, GOP said it is aiming to consolidate its position in the corporate finance sector, with a total over 150 dedicated lawyers.

“These important additions once again demonstrate our ability to attract the finest talent in the legal sector,” Rosario Zaccà, co-managing partner of the firm, said in a statement. “We are pleased to welcome our new colleagues and we are delighted to be able to add to the firm's offer in terms of new resources, expertise and high-level advisory services available to our clients.”

Segni said the team was attracted to GOP in part because of the high calibre of its lawyers, “We are confident we will be able to develop important synergies that will contribute to further consolidating the firm's leadership in the Italian and international markets,” he said.