Stefano has around 10 years of corporate finance experience and is currently leading CZ’s Asia Corporate Finance desk since 2019, with physical presence in Bangkok, Singapore and Ho Chi Minh. Stefano is currently responsible for all corporate finance advisory processes in the region, spanning Southeast-Asia, Japan and Australia. Stefano’s areas of expertise are mid-cap private and listed players in the agri-business, renewable energy (solar and biomass) and logistics (maritime terminals) sectors. Stefano has deep experience in cross-border and domestic M&A deal making, having transacted and participated in multiple strategic acquisitions, capital raises, JV’s and spin-off transactions in Brazil, Indonesia, Vietnam, Australia and Thailand. Stefano accumulates specific deep expertise in (i) complex cross-border M&A in APAC, (ii) debt raise expertise in sugar/ethanol, food and renewable energy (biomass cogen/solar), and (iii) strategic equity joint-venture structuring.
Before joining CZ, Stefano worked with IFC’s Financial Institutions Group (FIG) portfolio team, covering a breadth of debt and equity portfolio investments in LATAM as well as shorter secondments at Padtec Holding S.A. (Brazilian Venture Capital) Kerburn Rose (US-based boutique advisory). Stefano holds an MSc Hons. in Banking & International Finance from Bayes Business School and a Bachelor Hons. of Business Administration from Copenhagen Business School.
