Ettore A. Santucci

Ettore Santucci

esantucci@goodwinprocter.com

Ettore Santucci, a partner in the firm’s Business Law Department, chairs the Securities & Corporate Finance Practice and the REITS Practice. He focuses primarily on public and private securities offerings, corporate governance, securities law compliance, cross-border transactions, and mergers and acquisitions.

Mr. Santucci has extensive experience in equity and debt capital markets transactions. He regularly represents issuers (from emerging enterprises to NYSE-listed companies), underwriters, financial advisers and institutional investors in every segment of corporate finance, from exempt offerings (private placements, PIPEs and 144A/Reg S offerings), to IPOs, to shelf offerings of a broad range of equity, debt and structured securities, including investment grade bonds, high yield debt, and convertible/exchangeable securities with a wide spectrum of pricing, settlement and tax-sensitive features. Mr. Santucci has a special expertise in structuring leveraged transactions for enterprises with complex capitalization strategies seeking to access the capital markets.

Mr. Santucci is recognized for his representation of publicly traded REITs and real estate operating companies in corporate finance (including IPOs) and M&A, as well as corporate governance and securities matters. He has focused expertise in the specialized legal structures commonly used in the real estate capital markets, such as UPREITs and downREITs, and in executing portfolio acquisitions.

Mr. Santucci is lead corporate and securities counsel for publicly traded companies in a variety of industries, advising them in all aspects of disclosure, corporate governance, corporate finance, and securities law compliance. He also advises issuers and bondholders in debt restructurings, exchange offers and tender offers. Mr. Santucci has extensive experience in M&A, advising both acquiring and target companies.

In his active cross-border transactional practice, Mr. Santucci regularly advises U.S. clients in outbound investments, international joint ventures, and M&A, as well as Italian and Western-European clients in similar transactions inbound towards the United States. Relying on his two law degrees (U.S. and Italian), Mr. Santucci is particularly attuned to the multi-jurisdictional issues that often arise in cross-border corporate finance, strategic alliances, and business combinations.

Mr. Santucci is a member of the Boston, American and International Bar Associations.

Mr. Santucci is a frequent speaker on securities law topics. His representative articles include: “‘At the Market’ Offerings: Raising Equity Capital in Volatile Markets,” Derivatives (May 2009); “Seeking Equity Capital: What’s the Best Way to Sell in Today’s Economic Climate?,” Real Estate Law & Industry Report (April 2009); “Cash Conservation Strategies for U.S. REITs,” Taxation of Investment Funds: 2009 (February 2009); “Operating Under the New Form 8-K Accelerated and Expanded Reporting Requirements,” The Real Estate Finance Journal (Winter 2004); “The New Form 8-K: Interpretive Issues for REITs and REOCs,” The Real Estate Finance Journal (Winter 2004); “Resolution of the Sovereign Debt Crisis Through the IMF,” 14 Denver Journal of International Policy 1 (1985); and “The U.S. Supreme Court and Worldwide Unitary Taxation,” 15 B.C. L. Rev. 645 (1984).

Prior to joining Goodwin Procter, Mr. Santucci was an associate at White & Case in New York City and was on the staff of NOMISMA, an economic research foundation in Italy, where he maintains extensive business contacts.

Mr. Santucci is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and New York.

Mr. Santucci has been selected for inclusion in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business in its “Investment Funds: REITs - National” and “Corporate/M&A - Massachusetts” categories. He has also been listed in The Best Lawyers in America.

While attending law school, Mr. Santucci was an executive editor of the Boston College Law Review.

J.D., Boston College Law School, 1985 (summa cum laude)

J.D., Faculty of Jurisprudence of the University of Bologna, Italy, 1982 (summa cum laude)
B.A., Manhattanville College, 1981