Debt Advisory — GC Advisory | M&A, Corporate Finance Boutique

Services

Debt Advisory

Our team provides expert advice on structuring, raising, and refinancing debt, helping clients secure optimal financing solutions to support growth and liquidity.

Our Services

Scouting, structuring and raising of debt

We identify funding sources, structure optimal debt solutions, and facilitate capital raising to support acquisitions, expansions, or refinancing strategies tailored to client needs.

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Acquisition Finance

We provide tailored financing solutions for acquisitions, providing capital structuring, debt optimization, and strategic funding support to ensure successful transactions.

Project Finance

We provide customized financing solutions for large-scale projects, focusing on risk allocation, debt structuring, and securing capital to ensure long-term project viability and success.

Structured Finance

We design and implement complex financial solutions, leveraging securitization, asset-backed lending, and risk mitigation to optimize capital structure and meet client objectives.

Talk to a Partner

Gerardo Cavaliere

Partner, Co-Founder

Gerardo is Co-Founder of GC Advisory, where he focuses on M&A advisory transactions, both on the sell-side and buy-side. He has developed solid experience across several core sectors, including aerospace, software and ICT, industrial, and business services. Gerardo holds a degree in Business Administration and Corporate Finance from Bocconi University and, prior to founding GC Advisory, gained experience at leading international investment banks and professional firms, with a focus on debt restructuring, M&A deals, wealth management and family governance.

gerardo.cavaliere@gcadvisory.com

Giovanni Caroli

Partner, Co-Founder

Giovanni is Co-Founder of GC Advisory, where he focuses on M&A advisory transactions, both on the sell-side and buy-side, as well as on debt advisory. He has developed solid expertise across several core sectors, including aerospace, technology, healthcare, consumer, industrial, and energy. Prior to founding GC Advisory, Giovanni gained experience at leading consulting firms and professional practices, and earned a Master in Management from Bocconi University and a Master in International Taxation from Leiden University.

giovanni.caroli@gcadvisory.com

Latest deals

2026

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Sell Side M&A Advisory

acquired a majority stake

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Italia Eventi, an Italian agency specialised in the design and production of live brand experiences—corporate and consumer events, product launches, fashion-week activations and influencer-led formats—has agreed the sale of a majority stake to Ykone, the leading international influencer marketing group founded in Paris in 2008, controlled by Saudi-listed BinDawood Holding and present in more than 15 markets with c. 300 professionals.

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2025

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Debt Advisory

provided a senior secured bond facility

Agren, an Italian agrisolar (agrivoltaic) project company sponsored by Di Carlo Holding (DCH), has completed a €132 million senior secured bond facility fully subscribed by Pollen Street Capital. The proceeds will finance the development of a 14-plant agrivoltaic portfolio located in Puglia and Campania, with an aggregate installed capacity of around 139 MW, supporting DCH’s build-out of the Agren platform in Italy’s fast-growing agrivoltaics segment