Mr. Savoia has over 30 years of experience in finance and real estate. In his many years of activity he has been responsible for transactions with over Euro 20 billion in value. His activity has ranged from capital markets and M&A transactions to real estate and structured debt transactions.
In 2009 Mr. Savoia founded Three Stars Capital Partners, of which he is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, with the aim of creating a firm that can provide advisory services in the most delicate real estate and structured finance matters with the highest professional and ethical standards while offering its clients the deepest market expertise.
Prior to that Mr. Savoia was asked by Merrill Lynch to head the Real Estate Lending Group in order to set up a new product platform in Italy. Mr. Savoia has originated and worked on several mandates and Merrill Lynch has been lead arranger and lender for many transactions under his leadership. In the context of some of those transactions, Mr. Savoia has also been the reference point within the CMBS team.
Before then, Mr. Savoia has worked at Morgan Stanley, where he spent some time in the M&A Department, to then move in the Securitized Products Group within the bank. Mr. Savoia advised clients on the first securitizations in the Italian market both in the public administrations and in the banking market. Subsequently he moved on the real estate side and was asked to open the Italian market for Morgan Stanley in the commercial and residential lending businesses.
After graduation, Mauro Savoia, spent 3 years in Houston (TX), where he worked at Dresser Industries as a senior accountant and controller for some of the group subsidiaries.
Mr. Savoia holds a B.A. in Business Administration and Finance from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan and was awarded with Premio Gemelli as “Best Graduate of the 1995 Class”.
Mr. Savoia also holds an MBA in Finance from HBU in Houston (TX).
