When Linklaters appointed Hong Kong partner Davide Mencacci as its new global head of banking earlier this month, he became the department’s first leader to be based outside of London, where its largest banking team is based.
Mencacci, who took the role after firm veteran Tony Bugg stepped down, began his career in London in 1996 as a trainee at Paisner & Co, now a part of Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner. He left in 2001 to join as a senior associate at Allen & Overy in Milan, where he made partner in 2005, before leaving two years later to join Linklaters’ Milan office. In 2015, he moved to Linklaters’ Hong Kong office where he remains to lead the practice.
