Roberto
Cociancich

For over thirty years Roberto Cociancich has advised Italian and international companies on developing and organising their business, in Italy and abroad.

He focuses in particular on extraordinary finance transactions (acquisitions, mergers, disposals and leases of business units), commercial distribution and works contracts, project finance and structured finance.

He has gained his experience in a range of professional settings. From 1996 to 2004 he was a partner in the Milan office of Eversheds, the English-rooted international firm, where he handled cross-border transactions and supported foreign investors in Italy, particularly in the energy and infrastructure sectors. He went on to found CRW and Partners and CREA Avvocati Associati, the latter also as chairman, and worked as of counsel with SZA. In 2025 he founded The Mill - Law Firm.

He has spoken at international project finance conferences in Washington, London and Singapore, and contributed to English-language legal publications including The European Company Laws (Sweet & Maxwell) and Project Finance (Thomson Reuters). He also knows business from the inside: he sits on the board of Guy Carpenter & Co. (Marsh group), where he chairs the Risk Committee, and was a board member of SACE.

He chairs the International Relations Committee of the Milan Bar Association, which he has represented on numerous missions abroad, and is the Italian member of the Euravocat association.

Alongside his practice he has served in public office. From 2013 to 2018 he was a Senator of the Italian Republic, sitting on the Foreign Affairs, European Union Policies and Constitutional Affairs Committees. In the same years he was adviser on European policy to the Prime Minister's Office under the Renzi and Gentiloni Governments. This experience allows him to read business issues in the light of the European regulatory framework and of relations with public institutions.

He works in Italian, English and French.