Roberto Walter Firpo

Banco di Napoli SpA engages in the provision of banking services. It offers credit intermediation, consumer credit, and corporate and investment banking. The company was founded in 1753 and is headquartered in Naples, Italy.

SanPaolo-IMI SpA provided financial and banking services. It offered its public customer base with a range of services including account management, financing for their real estate projects, personal loans and wealth management services. In the field of commercial banking, the group offered financing services, leasing and factoring services to small and medium sized companies. It also developed merchant banking services, involving itself in the financing of large companies, local administrations and small growth companies via capital risk funding. The company was headquartered in Turin, Italy. Effective from 1 January 2007, Sanpaolo has been merged into Banca Intesa, which subsequently has changed its name to Intesa Sanpaolo

Equiter SpA (Equiter) is a private equity firm founded in 1998. The firm is headquartered in Turin, Italy.

Banca IMI SpA engages in the provision of investment banking services to businesses, institutional investors, banking and financial entities. It operates through the Global Markets and the Corporate and Strategic Finance business segments. The Global Markets segment refers to the activities of the investment bank and the related markets, including risk management for clients and the trading and distribution of financial instruments as well as capital markets operations of a more structural nature and the monitoring of the risk profiles of the bank. The Corporate and Strategic Finance segment includes all primary market origination activities, advisory services and structured finance activities, including credit risk assumption and management, cash loans, commitments to lend and investments in securities. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Milan, Italy.