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Profile
Established in the early 80s under the name Studio Tremonti. Vitali Romagnoli Piccardi e Associati is an Italian based firm, currently composed by around 50 professionals (dottori commercialisti and avvocati), that offers a full range of tax advice and related matters to domestic and international clients. The firm is particularly experienced and skilled in a number of tax areas which includes corporate and M&A, reorganisations, banking and finance, securitisations, structured finance, real estate, transfer pricing and tax litigations. The firm maintains privileged relationships with major international legal and tax firms through which the firm is able to provide worldwide coverage to its clients in all aspects related to tax. Vitali Romagnoli Piccardi e Associati is often appointed as special tax counsel to consult on major transactions or to handle complex tax audit and litigations matters. Clients The firm’s clients range from major national and international investment banks and financial institutions, Italian and foreign industrial and non-industrial multinationals, major Italian banks and telecommunications companies, domestic and foreign insurance companies and real estate, private equity, venture capital and pension funds. International work The firm specialises in cross-border acquisitions (both inbound and outbound), Initial public offerings and other exit strategies, as well as in structuring financial products, PAN-European private equity, venture capital, other close-ended funds cross-border financing transactions and securitisations. w w w . v i r t a x . i t
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People
Founder
Partners Enrico Vitali Dario Romagnoli Lorenzo Piccardi Giancarlo Zoppini Marcello Valenti Fabrizio Colombo Laura Gualtieri Luca dal Cerro Giuliano Foglia
Giulio Tremonti
Cristiano Caumont Caimi Christian Cisternino Giuseppe Pizzonia Cristiano Garbarini Antonio Vitali
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Practices
Corporate M&A and International taxation 20%
Real estate taxation 25%
Personal Tax and Employee income planning 5%
Tax litigation and tax ruling requests 15% Banking and Finance taxation 20% Securities and Capital market 15%
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Practices
Corporate and M&A The firm provides strategic tax planning for major leveraged buyouts and acquisitions, multi-country corporate reorganizations and has gained a relevant experience in mergers, de-mergers take-over bids as well as restructurings and reorganization of companies, also by means of share transfer, or sale of going concerns. It provides any kind of tax opinions and secures rulings and technical advice from the Revenue Agencies. The Firm provides in general advices on cross-border flows of dividend, interest and royalties income. Vitali Romagnoli Piccardi e Associati has structured spin-offs and other divisive reorganizations and devised plans to maximise the benefits of liquidations and dispositions of separate busiÂŹness segments.
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Practices
Personal Tax and Employee income planning The firm provides cross-border income and estate tax planning, including expatriation from Italy. It provides advices to multinational companies and their executives on all aspect of executive compensation, from designing to implementing incentive plans, qualified stock options.
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Practices
Tax litigation and tax ruling The firm has a long standing and solid tradition of handling tax dispute both nationally and internationally. All the firms lawyers and accountants participate in resolving tax controversies both during the audit and when litigation is unavoidable, cases are handled by litigators who are tax lawyers, fully experienced in transactional planning as well as litigation procedures up to the Italian Supreme Court.
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Practices
Banking, Finance and Capital market taxation The Firm advices banks, financial institutions, as well as investment funds in both their Italian and foreign operations. It provides a full range of tax advices in relation to drafting and negotiating complex multi party financing arrangements and all the relevant documentation. Provides opinions and devises complex legal and tax structures for a wide variety of banking, structure finance and capital market transactions. The firm is fully skilled to render advices both on the borrower / issuer side as well as on the lender or seller / underwriter side and has thus a thorough understanding of this area of work from different standpoints.
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Practices
Real estate taxation Vitali Romagnoli Piccardi e Associati works with major national and international real estate operators and investors in every area of real estate, from acquisitions, leasing and financing to dispositions. It structures multi-asset, multiple-party exchanges, sale-leasebacks and installment sales. It has also helped clients access the capital markets through the creation of Italian real estate funds. In addition to structuring initial property transfers, solving management and services issues, securing tax rulings and rendering tax opinions, the Firm assists real estate operators and investors (including a large number of Italian real estate funds) with their ongoing operations.
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Practices
International taxation The Firm’s strong knowledge and expertise in tax treaties interpretation enable it to work in virtually every area of international taxation, from cross-border mergers and acquisitions, to joint ventures, spin-offs, restructurings, cross-border financings and structure finance products. It has structured security, venture capital and investment funds and has advised on the acquisition, operation and disposition of a variety of publicly traded companies in the domestic context as well as in Europe and abroad. The firm is fully skilled and experienced with tax treaties, inter-company transfer pricing policies, licensing, and cost-sharing arrangements. It focuses on all aspects of planning for foreign investors, from structuring and funding a business or an LBO, to analysing transactions and any operational issues.
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Offices
Milan Via Crocefisso, 12, 20122 Tel: +39 02 58 313 707 Fax: +39 02 58 313 714 Mail: milano@virtax.it Rome Via Della Scrofa, 57, 00186 Tel: +39 06 3218 022 Fax: +39 06 3244 940 Mail: roma@virtax.it
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