Roberto Nigro

Partner

roberto.nigro@targetlaw.it

T +39 02 72008247
F +39 02 93661102

PROFILE

Roberto Nigro provides legal assistance and support in the field of corporate finance, particularly in venture capital, M&A, banking, and capital markets, with over twenty years of experience at both national and international levels.

He mainly assists national and international investment funds, family offices, and business angels in investment and divestment operations, financial transactions, and capital markets, as well as corporate and commercial issues. His expertise also includes the issuance of financial instruments (convertible and non-convertible), venture debt transactions, and listings on multilateral trading facilities.

Roberto has worked for leading law firms and boutiques in Italy, acquiring legal extensive expertise primarily in corporate finance and corporate governance, dealing with venture capital operations, M&A, banking, and capital markets.

EDUCATION

Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli e Santa Maria Capua Vetere (Caserta, Italy), law degree, 1999
Bocconi University (Milan, Italy), Specialization Course in Business Tax Law, 2001
LL.M. Master of Law in Corporate & Securities Law, Queen Mary Centre for Commercial Law Studies, University of London, London, 2002

MEMBERSHIP

Italian Bar (Milan, Italy), 2004
Admitted to practice before the Italian High Courts, 2017

EXPERTISE

Corporate finance
Private equity
Venture capital
Capital markets
Corporate advisory
Corporate governance
Merger and acquisitions

2026

Eureka! Venture SGR & NovaCapital

Assistance to Eureka! Venture SGR and NovaCapital in connection with a €7 million investment round in BeNewtral, an Italian start-up operating in the construction sector with a focus on the development of alternative binders to cement for sustainable building solutions

RASSEGNA STAMPA
2025

Vertis SGR

Assistance to Vertis SGR in connection with a €3.8 million investment round in Ogyre, a startup operating in the recovery and traceability of marine plastic waste through the direct involvement of fishing communities

RASSEGNA STAMPA
2025

Primo Capital, Eureka! Venture

Assistance to Primo Capital and Eureka! Venture in the US$40 million Series B round in Caracol AM, Italy’s leading company in large-scale additive manufacturing technologies

RASSEGNA STAMPA
2025

Vertis SGR, Azimut

Assistance to Vertis SGR and Azimut Libera Impresa, in the €3 million investment round in Tuidi, an Italian startup specialized in the development of proprietary machine learning platforms for the large-scale retail sector

RASSEGNA STAMPA
2025

Entourage, VC Partners SGR

Assistance to Entourage and VC Partners SGR in the seed investment round in TextYess, an innovative company developing software designed to simplify the sale of products and services through conversational messaging interfaces

RASSEGNA STAMPA
2025

AD cube

Assistance to AD cube, an Italian adtech startup specializing in artificial intelligence applied to advertising, in connection with its capital investment by AdKaora, the international martech agency of the Mondadori Group

RASSEGNA STAMPA
2025

Tikedo

Assistance to Tikedo, part of the White Bridge Investments group and a leading platform in Southern Europe’s label sector, in the acquisition of Impronta Digitale, an Italian company specialized in the production of adhesive labels using digital technologies

RASSEGNA STAMPA
2025

Vertis SGR

Assistance to Vertis SGR in connection with a Euro 2.7 million investment round in Live Story, a tech company operating in the digital experience design sector

RASSEGNA STAMPA
2025

Wine Suite

Advised Wine Suite on the equity investment by U.S. private equity firm Performant Capital.
Wine Suite is a tech company providing software solutions for European wineries

RASSEGNA STAMPA