Paolo Giancane

Biography

Paolo Giancane, CFA, is a Managing Director for Mount Flag Capital, a merchant bank with offices in Beijing, Hong Kong and Dana Point (California, US), active in cross-border M&A and private equity investing. Paolo has been exposed to the Chinese market since 2005 and has participated in several equity financings on behalf of Chinese clients and advised European clients in prospective investments in China as well as divestitures of European assets to Chinese buyers. He is currently advising a Chinese industrial company in the acquisition of a large competitor in the US. He worked at Lehman Brothers in London and New York from 1997 through 2002 in the corporate finance and leverage finance teams, respectively. He was a Director at UniCredit Investment Banking in Milan, Beijing and Hong Kong from 2002 through 2009. He is also an investor, board member and in charge of finance & business development at Vesenda, an Italian cutting edge software house which has just launched an innovative SaaS for BPM. Paolo teaches “Investment Banking in the APAC Region” at IE’s Master in Finance and Advanced Finance, and gives on-the-ground master classes throughout Asia and Australia. He also teaches at finance executive programs for IE Law School and IE School of Architecture.

Research Interest

Business