Gianluca Banfi

Managing Director

Milan Mergers & Acquisitions Chemicals | Industrials g.banfi@lincolninternational.it +39 02 3030 0720

I provide professionalism, proactiveness and reliability in supporting my clients to help them achieve their strategic objectives.

Who We Are / Our People / Gianluca Banfi

Gianluca specializes in origination and execution of mergers and acquisitions (M&A), disposals and leveraged and management buyouts across several industries. His clients include large and mid-market Italian and international corporations, private equity firms and privately held or family-owned businesses. Throughout his 30-year career, Gianluca has gained deep expertise in transactions in a broad range of industries, specifically industrials.

Gianluca has also operated as a principal, strengthening his knowledge of the private equity sector. He has served as an investment committee member of private equity and private debt funds, as well as a board member for mid-sized Italian companies operating in a variety of sectors.

Prior to joining Lincoln, Gianluca led the corporate finance division of Finanziaria Internazionale, a private investment bank. Before that, he was Chief Executive Officer of Arca Impresa Gestioni SGR and a director for Morgan Grenfell Private Equity. He also held investment banking positions at Deutsche Bank, where he headed the Italian M&A practice and was with Citigroup for several years.

Gianluca holds a Master of Arts from Bocconi University.

Recent Transactions in Industrials

Plews & Edelmann Highline Sterling Group 2020

Lincoln International is pleased to announce that Plews & Edelmann has sold its retail segment to Highline Aftermarket, a portfolio company of The Sterling Group

Consumer | Automotive & Truck

Lincoln International is pleased to announce that PRECO Electronics, a specialist in the field of radar-based perception systems purpose built for heavy duty markets, has been acquired by Sensata Technologies (NYSE:ST)

Automotive & Truck | Industrials

Turf Design Armstrong World Industries 2020

Lincoln International is pleased to announce that Turf Design has been sold to Armstrong World Industries (NYSE: AWI), a leading provider of ceiling and wall solutions for commercial and residential construction end markets

Building Products | Industrials

Lincoln International is pleased to have advised Grupo Tigre in the sale of its PVC window, door and frames division, Claris Soluções em Esquadrias, to Indústria Brasileira de Alumínio e Plásticos

Building Products | Industrials

Miranda Tools Dormer Paramet Sandvik 2020

Lincoln International is pleased to announce that its client Miranda Tools has entered into an agreement to sell its high-speed steel cutting tools business to Dormer Pramet, a division within Sandvik Machining Solutions

Industrial Engineering & Manufacturing | Industrials

Lincoln International advised management and BPE on the acquisition of Dätwyler Sealing Technologies

Building Products | Industrials

Lincoln International is pleased to announce the sale of ILSCO to ECM Industries, a portfolio company of Sentinel Capital Partners

Industrials | Industrial Technology

Lincoln International advised publicly-listed Exel Group in the successful acquisition of Eisenmann Intec from insolvency administrator Joachim Exner, Dr. Beck and Partner

Industrials

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Perspectives by Gianluca Banfi

Investors Take a Bite into the UK and European Dentistry Markets

Memories of nightmarish childhood trips to the dentist appear to be a thing of the past for investors as they rush to capitalise on the dentistry market in record numbers. Whilst a […]

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