Saverio Canepa is a senior independent M&A advisor with over twenty years of experience in corporate finance transactions, primarily active in the Italian mid-market and European cross-border deals. His track record includes more than eighty closed transactions — mergers, acquisitions, carve-outs, joint ventures and special situations — across sectors ranging from Made in Italy specialty manufacturing to B2B services, selected real estate, and special situations involving NPL and distressed credits.
His professional trajectory combines an initial path in a leading advisory boutique with executive roles in invested companies, where he managed extraordinary transactions from the corporate side. This dual perspective — advisor sitting across the table and manager who personally lived through the pressures of preparing a company for sale — is the distinctive signature of Saverio Canepa Advisory: the advisor who speaks the entrepreneur’s language because he has worn the entrepreneur’s shoes.
The firm today operates across three integrated practices: M&A advisory (sell-side, buy-side, carve-out and joint venture), NPL & Special Situations (advisory on portfolios and single names), and AI Expert (executive training and strategic consulting on AI integration in M&A processes and SMEs). Eight books published, with consistent editorial output over the last four years on the Italian M&A market, valuation and transition governance. Operating headquarters in Rome, with project presence in Milan and an extended professional network reaching London, Luxembourg and major European capitals.
