BENEDETTA PACIFICO’s practice focuses on capital markets transactions. She has extensive experience of acting for private and listed corporate and financial institutions on a wide range of financing transactions including regulatory and hybrid capital instruments, ESG-themed debt offerings, debt restructurings, tender and exchange offers, other liability management transactions, and the establishment and update of EMTN and GMTN programs, and related issues. Benedetta has a strong interest and focus on ESG in finance and capital markets, and founded Sidley’s ESG Focus Group in Europe.
Benedetta has experience of listings on different regulated and non-regulated markets including in London, Luxembourg and Ireland.
Benedetta is recommended by The Legal 500 UK 2023 for Dept Capital Markets, with clients saying she is “an associate we can trust and rely on.”
Prior to joining Sidley, Benedetta worked in the London offices of a major Italian law firm and in the London and Rome offices of a major London based international firm.