Michele Marocchino
Managing Director
Michele Marocchino is a Managing Director at Lazard. Michele has more than 20 years of experience in M&A advisory, working both in Milan and Paris.
Michele is the co-coordinator of both the European Financial Sponsor Team and the Consumer Team for Lazard in Europe.
His main clients include private equity sponsors, institutional investors, families as well as international corporates.
Michele joined Lazard in Milan in 1999 (then Lazard – Vitale Borghesi) after spending two years in Paris at Pleyel&Cie, a mid-cap consumer goods M&A boutique. Prior to that, he was an analyst at JP Morgan.
Michele has been a contract professor since 2005 at the ESCP in Turin with a course in Finance, continuing the collaboration with the University still today as a lecturer and with some papers for several publications. He also was a member of the board of AIFI, the Italian association of Financial Investors from 2017 to 2019 and is still member of the M&A commission.
Michele holds a BSc. in Economics from Bocconi University in Milan and studied at the London School of Economics.
Our offices in Italy
Milan is the center of finance in Italy and has been home to Lazard since the 1960s, when André Meyer, then head of Lazard Frères, acquired a stake in Mediobanca.
With more than 40 bankers located in Milan, Lazard has had a key role in some of the most important M&A and restructuring transactions undertaken in Italy in recent decades. We strive to give clients strong national coverage, married with privileged access to the Lazard global network.
Since 2001, Lazard’s presence in Italy has included the Asset Management business, with the opening of a dedicated office in Milan. The range of solutions offered to Italian institutional investors was enlarged in 2017 with the creation of the Lazard Fund Managers brand, providing a single point of access to the investment expertise of Lazard Asset Management and Lazard Frères Gestion.
