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Rossana Bellina

Ms. Rossana Bellina is Counsel at Zhong Lun’s Shanghai office. She specializes in cross-border mergers and acquisitions, strategic investments and corporate transactions, with complementary experience in acquisition and corporate finance. She is an internationally admitted lawyer with nearly two decades of experience advising multinational corporations, financial institutions, private equity firms and strategic investors on complex cross-border matters.

Ms. Bellina’s practice focuses on international M&A and general corporate work spanning Europe, the United States, Australia and Greater China. She regularly advises on acquisitions, divestments, joint ventures, corporate reorganizations and governance matters, assisting clients in navigating diverse legal systems and regulatory environments. Drawing on her in-house experience, she brings a strongly commercial and operational perspective to transaction structuring and execution.

In addition, Ms. Bellina advises clients on financing aspects connected to M&A and corporate transactions, including acquisition and syndicated financings, as well as selected project and structured finance matters. Her industry experience includes financial services, agribusiness, manufacturing, infrastructure, real estate, shipping, art and luxury assets, sports and entertainment, and technology-enabled businesses.

Her representative matters include advising multinational clients on cross-border acquisitions and strategic investments; advising international and regional banks and borrowers on acquisition and corporate financings; advising private equity firms on platform investments; and advising on selected structured and project finance transactions in Europe and Asia.

Ms. Bellina also has experience advising on capital markets transactions, including initial public offerings, as well as on regulatory and corporate governance aspects of cross-border investments.

Before joining Zhong Lun, Ms. Bellina practiced at leading international law firms in Milan, New York and Sydney, including Shearman & Sterling (now A&O Shearman) and Simmons & Simmons, and most recently at MinterEllison. She also served as General Counsel of Marli New York Group, an international luxury group headquartered in New York, where she gained first-hand experience advising on global expansion, M&A transactions, corporate governance, strategic partnerships, financing arrangements and cross-border risk management.

Ms. Bellina is recognized for her strong commercial judgment, cultural fluency and ability to translate complex legal structures into practical business solutions. Having lived and worked across multiple jurisdictions, she brings a deep international perspective to advising Chinese enterprises on outbound investments and foreign investors on inbound transactions involving Greater China.

Representative Matters

  • Advised multinational corporations and private groups on cross-border acquisitions, disposals and strategic investments across Europe, the United States, Australia and Asia.

  • Advised clients on joint ventures, shareholder arrangements, corporate restructurings and governance frameworks in multi-jurisdictional contexts.

  • Advised international and regional banks on large-scale multi-currency corporate and acquisition financings, including transactions exceeding AUD600 million and USD 4 billion.

  • Advised borrowers and sponsors on leveraged and syndicated facilities supporting M&A and corporate activity.

  • Advised financial institutions on acquisition financing in connection with global M&A transactions involving listed multinational groups.

  • Advised private equity funds on platform investments and bolt-on acquisitions, including related acquisition financings.

  • Advised on structured finance transactions involving art and shipping assets with cross-border security considerations.

  • Advised on project financings relating to infrastructure and real estate developments.

  • Advised joint bookrunners in connection with an initial public offering of a major European issuer.

Memberships & Affiliations

Board Member, Sydney FC Foundation

Member, Asia Pacific Loan Market Association (APLMA) Women in the Loan Market Asia (WILMA)

Banking & Financial Services Law Association (BFSLA)

Sydney Children’s Hospitals Foundation

  • Bar Admissions/Professional Qualifications

    Italy Bar
    United States Bar (New York and Alabama)

  • Education

    LL.M.(cum laude), Fordham University School of Law, New York
    J.D.(cum laude), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milan

  • Professional Experience

    Zhong Lun Law Firm
    MinterEllison (Sydney, Australia)
    General Counsel, Marli New York Group (New York, United States)
    A&O Shearman (London, United Kingdom, and New York, United States)
    Simmons & Simmons (Milan, Italy)

  • Languages

    English
    French
    Spanish
    Italian