Italy

Firm overview

CARAVATI PAGANI – Dottori Commercialisti Associati (Firm of Associated Chartered Accountants), founded in 1987, is an Independent professional multidiscipline firm organized by area of expertise led by partners Edoardo Caravati, Piero Pagani and Filippo Caravati.

The Firm offers Tax, Corporate, Business and Accounting advisory services with offices located in Northern Italy providing qualified professional services not only to small/medium-sized companies but also to large groups and High Net Worth Individuals on tax matters.

Considering the large amount of strategic consulting and turnkey solutions we provide, our claim is: Smart Tax Consulting.

Firm overview

WTS R&A Studio Tributario is a professional tax consultancy firm supporting multinational groups, medium-sized enterprises and private clients, with offices in Milan, Rome, Turin and Verona. We are a Member Firm of WTS Global, a global consulting network present in more than 100 countries around the world.

Our best-performing areas are tax consultancy at a national and international level, business reorganization, litigation and out-of-court settlement of tax disputes as well as supply chain taxation (transfer pricing, VAT, customs duties and others indirect taxes) and cooperative compliance. In our Rome and Milan offices we have a team focused on Global Mobility & Employment Taxation.

Firm overview

Pirola Pennuto Zei & Associati was established in the 1970s as a partnership by a group of specialists. The firm provides tax and legal services to medium and large-sized companies and multinational groups and has continually sought to reinforce its multidisciplinary approach by creating specialized centres of excellence.

Along with ten offices in Italy, the firm has independent offices in London, in Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong and an Indian Desk.

Pirola Pennuto Zei & Associati has more than 600 professionals, many of whom participated in some of Italy's most significant corporate and financing operations over the past decade.

The firm provides top quality services, combining the trust relationship between the professional and the client with organizational skills.

Pirola Pennuto Zei & Associati advises many of Italy's leading corporations and several major Italian banks, both domestically and abroad. The representation of foreign clients both in Italy and internationally constitutes a significant part of the firm's practice.

The firm's services cover tax and legal matters such as:

• Domestic and International Tax Compliance and Planning
• Transfer Pricing
• VAT
• Tax
• Legal and Regulatory Advisory Services to Companies in the Banking and Financial Services Sector
• Tax Assistance for Expatriates and Individuals
• IT Law and Copyright
• Labour Law
• Business Law
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Private Equity
• Tax Litigation
• Litigation
• Antitrust and European Law
• Media Entertainment and Telecommunications
• Energy and Environmental Law
• Real Estate
• Privacy and Information Protection
• Corporate Finance Services

Firm overview

Supported by the international, multidisciplinary Deloitte network, about 700 Tax professionals in thirteen Italian cities (Bologna, Genova, Padova, Catania, Milano, Roma, Firenze, Napoli, Torino, Parma, Treviso, Varese, Bari) and desks in New York and Hong Kong, combining a broad range of professional experience with industry-specialist knowledge. STS Deloitte is able to provide its clients with advice and assistance on both Italian matters and cross borders matters with a complete range of services, paying attention to the technical aspects, in the following areas:

• Business Tax
• International Tax
• VAT & Global Trade Advisory
• Global Employer Services (GES)
• Transfer Pricing
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Tax Controversy
• IT Tax tools (TMC)
• Business Process Solutions (BPS)
• Global Investment and Innovation Incentives (Gi3)
• Private Client Services

Since a few years now, STS Deloitte (part of the Deloitte Network) has become the largest tax practice in Italy in terms of the number of full-time dedicated transfer pricing professionals (tax specialists, lawyers, analysts and economists), grouped in one national service line (set up in 1999). The team located in five different geographical locations in is led by Aldo Castoldi.

STS-Deloitte transfer pricing SL:

• has a “passion” for innovation and assisted in the negotiation and conclusion of the first Italian Advance Pricing Agreement (APA), in the first settlement of an Italian transfer pricing case through the European Union Mutual Agreement and Arbitration Convention;
• assisted clients in the two first ever contemporaneous multilateral audits jointly carried out by the Italian and German Tax Authority;
• have been developing and implementing IT Tools and solutions for TP Documentation and Analytics projects.