FTI Consulting, Inc. announced the launch of the firm's Corporate Finance & Restructuring segment in Milan with the appointment of four business transformation and restructuring senior hires, continuing its growth across Continental Europe and providing a permanent presence in Italy. The new appointments include Francesco Leone, who will lead FTI Consulting's Italian Corporate Finance & Restructuring business, Claudia Lotti, Barbara Biassoni and Raffaele Fiorella. The Corporate Finance & Restructuring segment advises on many of the world's most complex restructurings, turnarounds, transformations and transactions, helping companies and their stakeholders address major financial, operational and transactional challenges.

The launch in Italy follows company's expansion of its Corporate Finance & Restructuring segment in Europe, the Middle East and Africa into the Netherlands with the acquisition of BOLD in February 2022 and the appointment of four professionals in March 2022, as well as its expansion into France in May 2022.