Expertise

• Tax law, with particular focus on:
• international taxation
• transfer pricing and tax planning
• private clients
• property transactions
• investment funds
• real-estate funds
• private equity
• M&A and company reorganisations

Foreign languages: English

Background

• President of the firm
• Board member
• Country partner for the USA New York
• Team Leader of the Corporate Governance Focus Team
• Member of the Art and Cultural Property Focus Team
• Member of the Luxury Focus Team
• Member of the Private Clients Focus Team
• Member of the Public International Law & Economic Diplomacy Focus Team
• Member of the Innovation and Digital Transformation (strategic support)
• Member of the Africa Committee and of the Africa Team
• Member of the Board of Directors of beLab S.p.A. (a public limited company wholly owned by BonelliErede) since July 2020
• Made partner in 2008
• Joined in 2007
• Worked for other major Italian law firms
• Author of numerous publications on tax law
• Regular speaker at national and international conferences
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Ranking and Awards

• The Chambers & Partners and The Legal 500 EMEA international legal directories list Stefano as one of Italy’s major experts in tax law.

Testimonials

“He is outstanding, and he’s also able to understand the business side”

(Chambers and Partners)

Qualifications

• Director of the first full year Adv. LLM. in Transfer Pricing at the University of Leiden
• Representative of the International Tax Center Leiden at the EU joint transfer pricing forum (2015)
• Director of the Leiden Transfer Pricing Research Center, the world’s leading transfer pricing research centre (since 2011)
• Lecturer on the advanced LLM in international taxation at Leiden University, Holland (since 2000)
• Lecturer on accounting and financial reporting at Bocconi university of Milan (1995-2003)
• Lecturer on national and international tax law on various courses and master’s (supervisor of the transfer pricing master’s course sponsored by “Il Sole 24 Ore”)
• PhD in international taxation from Leiden University
• Master’s in international taxation from Leiden
• Chartered accountant
• Degree in business and economics from Bocconi University of Milan