Firenze
Lorenzo Parrini
Partner
Deloitte Financial Advisory
parrini@firenze.amcham.it
ABOUT LORENZO PARRINI
A chartered accountant and statutory auditor, he carries out his professional activity as an Equity Partner of Deloitte Financial Advisory, a company - within the Deloitte international network - specialized in consulting in extraordinary finance transactions. In Deloitte he assisted, in quality of financial advisor, small and medium-sized family businesses in M&A transactions with strategic investors and private equity, mainly in consumer business.
He is an extraordinary professor of Advanced Corporate Finance at the School of Economics of the University of Florence; he works as a lecturer in the Masters in Finance at the Bocconi University Management School and is a lecturer in Finance at the Finance and Marketing Master of Polimoda in Florence.
"The Tuscan entrepreneurial fabric is internationally recognized not only for the presence of excellent companies in the more traditional sectors such as fashion, food or tourism, but also in innovative sectors such as life science and ITC, also thanks to the presence in the Region of centers of academic excellence and technological poles. In addition, even local institutions have invested heavily in creating an adequate context for the welcoming of foreign multinationals, managing to stimulate an important flow of foreign investments (about 50 US companies and various operations of M&A). Even American universities are very present in Tuscany, surpassing over 50 in the city of Florence alone. On the other hand, the export vocation of many small local medium-sized companies (Tuscany is among the top exporting regions, especially in the USA), makes the US, in particular, a great country interest in concentrating the greatest efforts in the internationalization process, even with a greater presence through direct investments. In view of my role as financial advisor in M&A operations, I believe I can make a contribution to facilitate the approach between the USA and Tuscany, both in terms of foreign investments in our region and in the process of accompanying Tuscan companies to appear on the US market, helping them to manage a process that is certainly very complex".
