Lionel Spizzichino is a partner in the Business Reorganization & Restructuring Department of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in Paris and co-Chair of the European Restructuring Group.
He has extensive experience in Lender-led and complex cross-border restructurings as well as French pre-insolvency and insolvency matters, including amicable restructuring, insolvency proceedings, restructuring litigation and distressed mergers and acquisitions.
Lionel also advises regularly on mergers and acquisitions with a particular focus on cross border acquisitions and complex carve-outs.
His clients include companies, creditors or investors in a wide range of sectors such as airlines, aircraft, media, chemical, financial services and automotive. He also advises investment funds, recovery funds and hedge funds.
Lionel has been involved in some of the most significant pre-insolvency proceedings, bankruptcy proceedings and high-profile M&A and distressed M&A cases in France.
Lionel has been recognized as the "2021 Lawyer of the Year" by Option Droit & Affaires, and as French Restructuring Lawyer of the Year 2020 by Option Droit & Affaires and is consistently recognized by Chambers Europe, Chambers Global, IFLR1000 and Legal 500 EMEA as a ‘leading individual’ in restructuring and insolvency law in France with clients noting that ‘Lionel Spizzichino is extremely well connected, responsive, available, commercial and ‘user-friendly’!’ ‘he shows particular expertise in cross-border financial restructuring matters and is a great strategist and very commercially minded.'
Lionel also has been recognized by Best Lawyers 2023 for Insolvency and Reorganization Law.