Norton Rose Fulbright says leveraged finance partner Marina Balzano joined its Milan office from Orrick on 16 October with four colleagues: Giulio Asquini, Filippo Nola, Claudia Loriggio and Elisa Zaccaria.
The firm describes Balzano’s experience as spanning leveraged finance, acquisition finance, corporate lending and private credit. It says the arriving team will support domestic and cross-border financings as part of its wider banking and finance platform.
The move is a specific Milan appointment and team hire. Norton Rose Fulbright’s primary page carries month-only October 2026 publication metadata, while Law.com dated its report 16 October 2026. The relevant documented joining date is 16 October; the available sources do not establish an exact joining time.
Why it matters
The announcement gives a concrete example of banking and finance capability being added to a European office, with private-capital and private-credit context. It is not a London hire, a UK vacancy signal or evidence of a wider UK hiring trend. Any relevance to the UK legal market is indirect, through Norton Rose Fulbright’s international platform rather than the location of this appointment.