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L&B Partners Avvocati Associati launches its new Real Estate department and expands its Banking & Finance practice with the addition of Partner Carmine Oncia and his team
06 maggio 2026
The Firm’s professionals have now grown to 47, expanding and strenghtening its range of transversal and multidisciplinary expertise at the service of its clients
L&B Partners Avvocati Associati announces the appointment of Carmine Oncia as Partner, Head of the new Real Estate Department, and Co-Head of the Banking & Finance Department (alongside Partner Pietro Paolo D’Ippolito, who launched the department in 2024).
The addition of Carmine Oncia marks a strategic milestone in the Firm’s growth path, significantly strengthening its ability to assist banks, funds, institutional investors, and industrial groups in highly complex domestic and cross-border transactions through an integrated approach combining finance and M&A.
Carmine Oncia boasts over twenty years of experience in real estate, project finance, and acquisition and leverage finance, with a proven track record in securitization, special situations and restructuring, debt capital markets, and private debt. Joining him at L&B Partners Avvocati Associati are Managing Associate Edoardo La Bionda and Associate Tommaso Palmiotti.
With these new additions, L&B Partners Avvocati Associati strengthens and complements its focus on real economy, adding a new area of excellence dedicated to the real estate market to its established expertise in the energy and infrastructure sectors and other real asset sectors. The Firm thus positions itself as the natural point of contact for Italian and international operators seeking a partner capable of combining deep local roots, a national reach, and an international outlook, guiding them with strategic vision through every stage of their investment.
“With the launch of the new Real Estate Department and the stenghten of the Banking & Finance Department, the Firm is taking a significant step forward in its growth trajectory – Michele Di Terlizzi, Managing Partner of L&B Partners Avvocati Associati, stated – The arrival of Carmine and his team represents a substantial expansion of our Firm’s range of services, enhancing our ability to provide clients with high-quality service in key sectors.”
“I am delighted to join L&B Partners Avvocati Associati, a rapidly expanding firm with a clear vision for growth – says Partner Carmine Oncia – My goal is to make a tangible contribution to the development of the Banking & Finance practice and the new Real Estate department, including through new hires. For Banking & Finance, the aim is to strenghten our position in financing transactions and broaden our scope to include strategic practices such as securitization and fund formation, leveraging our expertise and methodology to meet the needs of banks, funds, and institutional investors in a constantly evolving market. On the Real Estate side, the new Department is born with the ambition of becoming a leading player in property and investment transactions, leveraging an integrated approach across the Firm’s various practice areas.”
The new entries are part of the long-term growth plan of L&B Partners Avvocati Associati, which has seen a significant increase in the number of its professionals over the past 12 months alone – now being 47, including 12 partners – with major investments such as the expansion of the Administrative Law Department and the launch and subsequent expansion of the Tax Department, and which envisions further developments in strategic areas.
The Firm thus continues to grow in the Italian legal market and reaffirms its position as a boutique law firm characterized by top-level quality and specialized expertise, at the service of its clients.