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Meet the newest member of the Ashurst Board – Carloandrea Meacci
Carloandrea is a partner in the Projects & Energy Transition practice in Italy and has acted as managing partner of Ashurst in Milan since 2018. He has extensive experience in debt and equity transactions with a focus on the energy and infrastructure sectors, including renewables (solar, wind, hydro, biogas, batteries, etc), oil & gas (LNG regas, gas storage, CCGT, gas transport and distribution, gas peakers, etc), transport (toll roads, airports, underground, ports, etc), social infrastructure (hospitals etc), telecoms (towers, data centres, fibre, broadband etc.), as well as "core-plus" infrastructure assets (pharmacies, special waste, tug boats, etc).
Congratulations on being elected to the Ashurst Board. What are you most looking forward to in this new role?
Thanks, I am really excited to join the Board and contribute my experience of a local and small office (Milan), which over the years has developed into a particularly profitable office with a selected and reasoned growth, internally and externally; hopefully this will help other local offices and/or local/small practices/teams. In addition, in certain practice areas we are actually not small/local but large/international and have proved to be "net exporters" of work and of key relationships to the broader network including our largest offices, eg London and Sydney.
What unique characteristics will you bring to the Board?
Ashurst is unique, not me! However, I have some characteristics which will hopefully help me on the Board, such as having a strong US background (having studied and worked there for three years – I was admitted to the New York Bar), plus I have been at Ashurst since 2006 and have won a number of Ashurst collaboration awards, so I know the unique Ashurst culture quite well and I will do my best to preserve it!
Was it always part of your career plan?
No, in fact my priority is and has always been fee-earning work with a strong focus on Business Development. However, I feel that the Board role, which is a high-level strategic role rather than a day-to-day role, fits well with my skills and with the fact that my local management role (as Milan Managing Partner) is less and less time consuming, as the rebuilding of the office is to a great extent complete, and there is a great group of young and talented partners (and other fee earners) who can take the Milan office to the next level.
What do you hope 2024 will bring for Ashurst?
Cohesion despite the many challenges we face in the light of ever-increasing competition in the market.
