Marco Biagiotti

Associate

Marco advises both domestic and multinational clients across a wide spectrum of corporate and securities matters, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate governance, financings, and commercial transactions. He counsels Italian and other international entities on corporate transactions and regularly supports their business activities in the United States. Marco also brings substantial experience assisting domestic companies with both inbound transactions and outbound cross-border matters.

Marco is admitted to practice in New York and Italy. Prior to joining the firm, he was an associate in the Rome, Italy, office of a global multinational firm. Marco earned his law degree and specialization diploma from the University of Florence, his master's in business and company law from the Luiss Guido Carli School of Law, and his master of laws, with honors, from Northwestern's Pritzker School of Law.

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Experience

Represented the court-appointed trustee for the bankruptcy estate of pharmaceutical company Akorn Holding Company LLC in connection with establishing and conducting an expedited auction sale process for substantially all of its assets. At the conclusion of the auction, the aggregate purchase price agreed to be paid by the successful purchasers was approximately $309 million. We then negotiated 13 individual Asset Purchase Agreements and obtained the entry from the bankruptcy court of 21 individual sale orders approving the sales of the purchased assets, all of which we successfully closed within a 45-day period.


Represented a Washington, D.C.-based public relations company in its sale to a multinational marketing communication corporation. 


Represented a steel fabrication and erection company in connection with the acquisition of a steel company with operations in the United States and India.


Represented Albaron Partners LP in its sale of an interest in podiatry clinics to a Japanese public company. 


Represented LGC Clinical Diagnostics, Inc., a developer and manufacturer of diagnostic services and materials for the life sciences industry, in its $2 million purchase of substantially all of the assets of Virusys Corporation, a manufacturer, developer, distributor, marketer, and seller of virology related products and services.


Represented LGC Genomics, LLC, a global provider of life science tools, in its $1 million purchase of substantially all of the assets of PolyDesign LLC, a manufacturer, developer, distributor, marketer, and seller of products used in synthetic oligonucleotide production.


Represented private equity-backed PES Benefits, a solutions provider to the employee benefits technology, administration, education, and virtual care industries, in its acquisition of nRoll Tech, a national benefits technology company.


Represented a subsidiary of an Italy-based global pharmaceutical and health care company in connection with its secured loan to an Indiana-based contract development and manufacturing organization and glass vials and syringes manufacturer.


Represented Lutze Inc., a leading provider of harsh environment cable and cable assembly solutions for high-technology applications in the industrial market, in its sale to Amphenol Corporation, one of the world's largest designers, manufacturers, and marketers of electrical, electronic, and fiber optic connectors and interconnect systems, antennas, sensors and sensor-based products, and coaxial and high-speed specialty cable.


Represented a Bitcoin mining company in its acquisition of two Bitcoin mining sites and associated land in Mississippi.


Represented an acidulants, fine chemicals, and production equipment supplier in the sale of its equipment division.


News

Marine Money Selects Cozen O’Connor for 2024 Offshore Wild Card Deal of the Year Award

June 03, 2025

Cozen O’Connor is proud to announce that the firm’s Transportation and Trade Group is the recipient of the Marine Money Offshore Wild Card Deal of the Year Award for 2024.

Cozen O’Connor Advises Xtribe on Definitive Agreement to Go Public on Nasdaq through Proposed Business Combination with WinVest Acquisition Corp.

May 09, 2024

Cozen O’Connor advised Xtribe P.L.C. in its definitive business combination agreement with WinVest Acquisition Corp.

The American Bankruptcy Institute Selects Cozen O’Connor Transaction as Asset Sale of the Year

April 20, 2024

Cozen O’Connor is proud to announce that the firm’s Bankruptcy, Insolvency & Restructuring Group is the recipient of the American Bankruptcy Institute’s Asset Sale of the Year award.

Cozen O’Connor Serves as U.S. Counsel to Cogne Acciai Speciali SpA on Definitive Agreement to Acquire Capital Stock of Mannesmann Stainless Tubes GmbH

March 05, 2024

Mannesmann has operations and operating plants throughout the United States as well as in Germany, France, and Italy. The transaction is valued at €135 million.

Cozen O’Connor Represents Albaron Partners in First Private Equity Exit in U.S. Podiatry

January 09, 2024

PHILADELPHIA, January 9, 2024 — Cozen O’Connor advised Albaron Partners, a middle-market private equity firm focused on founder-led health care companies, in its sale of Albaron Podiatry Holdings LLC d/b/a Beyond Podiatry, a leader in the management of podiatric medicine in the Midwest, to CUC Inc. The deal represents the first private equity exit in U.S. podiatry history.

Cozen O’Connor Represents Leger in Purchase of 360 Market Reach, Its First U.S. Acquisition

November 22, 2022

Cozen O’Connor represented Leger, the largest Canadian-owned market research and analytics company, in its acquisition of 360 Market Reach, an American market research company based in New York City.

Publications

Corporate Transparency Act: anche gli USA impongono l’obbligo di comunicare i titolari effettivi [Alert]

September 28, 2023

Italian Alert: Christian Moretti and Beatrice Bottini discuss the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), a new regulation to combat money laundering, terrorist financing, and other illicit activities.

Education

  • University of Florence, J.D., 2013
  • Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, LL.M., with honors, 2022
  • Luiss Guido Carli School of Law, Master, Business and Company Law, 2019
  • University of Florence, Specialization Diploma, 2015
  • New York
  • Italy