Gian Gualberto Morgigni

Gian Gualberto Morgigni

Tax Lawyer  |  Chiomenti
JURISDICTION

TOP SPECIALISMS

Real Estate

Trusts: Planning

Tax Advisory

Office Location

Italy

Short Biography

Gian Gualberto Morgigni is a Senior Associate of the Tax and Tax Planning department at Chiomenti in Italy. He has completed his studies in Rome and Milan and has been admitted to the Italian Bar Association. He joined Chiomenti in 2011. Gian Gualberto focuses on family estate restructuring, taxation of business operations, trusts, incentive schemes for managers, taxation of financial transactions and corporate restructurings. He regularly advises clients on issues related to international taxation, M&A, private equity and financing operations. Gian Gualberto has authored several publications on tax matters and is a speaker at tax conferences and seminars.

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Gabriele Colombaioni

Gabriele Colombaioni

Senior Tax Advisor  |  Charles Russell Speechlys
JURISDICTION

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Family Office

Relocation and Cross-Border Advisory

Tax Advisory

Office Location

United Kingdom

Short Biography

Gabriele advises clients on Italian tax. His work focuses on cross border private clients matters concerning the relocation to and from Italy of HNW individuals and business executives and the taxation of trusts and estates.

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Fernando Gandioli

Fernando Gandioli

Partner  |  Withersworldwide
JURISDICTION

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Tax Advisory

Relocation and Cross-Border Advisory

Office Location

Milan, Italy

Short Biography

Fernando is a partner in the private client and tax team. He advises on US and international tax and estate planning for high net-worth individuals, trusts and estates. Fernando's area of focus includes working with international families and successful entrepreneurs to establish tax efficient succession planning structures, identifying tax planning opportunities for clients seeking to relocate to or invest in the US and advising on US tax non-compliance issues and voluntary disclosure. He has acquired significant cross-border experience advising clients with close ties to Asia, continental Europe (particularly Italy and Spain) and South America.

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Camilla Culiersi

Camilla Culiersi

Senior Associate  |  Chiomenti
JURISDICTION

TOP SPECIALISMS

Estates: Planning

Family Governance and Business

Trusts: Planning

Office Location

Italy

Short Biography

Camilla Culiersi advises Italian and international clients on matters concerning planning, management and use of family assets (including corporate shareholdings and artworks) with a focus on family wealth planning, including succession, intra-family wealth transfers and trusts. She joined Chiomenti in 2013 and was admitted to the Italian Bar Association in 2016. She is the author of several publications on private wealth matters.

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Andrea Tavecchio

Andrea Tavecchio

Tax Advisor  |  Tavecchio & Associati
JURISDICTION

TOP SPECIALISMS

Relocation and Cross-Border Advisory

Trusts: Planning

Tax Advisory

Office Location

Italy

Short Biography

Andrea Tavecchio, TEP, born in Milan in 1969, founded Tavecchio & Associati in 2008 and the Firm is now top ranked by Chambers and Partners HNWI (Tax Advisors). Andrea is an expert in the field of wealth planning and assists private clients in estate, tax and succession planning, advising also on cross-border issues. He is also advisor on tax and governance matters of some Italian and international Family Offices and Trustees. Andrea regularly assists families or individuals who want to invest or move their tax residence to Italy. Andrea has been appointed to expert committees reporting to the Ministry for Economic Development (2011 -13), the Prime Minister’s office on economic and fiscal matters (2015 - 2016) and The Ministry for Technological Innovation (2021-22).

What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?

Il Consolare near Via Brera in Milan

What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?

Life is not a Russian novel

What was your first job?

In a Spanish company in Madrid (I had to do management control actually I did a lot of photocopying...)

What is the book you recommend to everyone?

Manzoni's The Betrothed (also for the Lake of Como touch)

What changes do you expect to see in your practice over the next year?

More international mobility


Andrea Moja

Andrea Moja

Attoreny at law  |  SLCLEX
JURISDICTION

Italy, United Arab Emirates

TOP SPECIALISMS

Relocation and Cross-Border Advisory

Trusts: Planning

Tax Advisory

Office Location

Italy

Short Biography

Andrea Moja is constantly engaged in complex, high-profile international transactions. Andrea advises wealthy families, family offices, trustees and private banks on a range of trusts and wealth planning structuring matters. He advises high-net worth individuals in the transfer of residency to Italy under the recent new flat tax regime applicable to new Italian residents. He has accrued experience also with clients from Sharia jurisdictions (Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Uae). He has appeared before several international commercial arbitral tribunals (either as counsel or as arbitrator) based in Paris, London, Brussels, Stockholm, dealing with disputes covering a wide variety of jurisdictions and sectors. He is Professor of International Business Law at LIUC in Castellanza University, and a member of STEP Italy’s scientific committee as well as an Academician of the International Academy of Estate and Trust Law (TIAETL).He is also Vice-president of The European Arbitration Chamber in Brussels. (https://chea-taic.be).

What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?

Il Salumaio di Montenapoleone

What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do. J.P. MORGAN

What was your first job?

ATTORNEY AT LAW

What is the book you recommend to everyone?

"The master and Margarita" M. Bulgakov

What changes do you expect to see in your practice over the next year?

More cross-border operations involving trust structures at the international level


Andrea Gallizioli

Andrea Gallizioli

Junior Partner  |  Gatti Pavesi Bianchi Ludovici
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Office Location

Italy

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Alberto Brazzalotto

Alberto Brazzalotto

Partner  |  Maisto e Associati
JURISDICTION

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Estates: Planning

Relocation and Cross-Border Advisory

Tax Advisory

Office Location

United Kingdom

Short Biography

Alberto Brazzalotto, partner at Maisto e Associati, heads the London office since January 2023. His main area of expertise is Italian tax law, with a focus on private client matters, including taxation of trusts, estate planning, cross-border successions, restructuring of family business and relocation of high-net-worth individuals to and from Italy. He has an extensive experience also in international tax law, taxation of IPs, taxation in the sport, entertainment and art sector. He also assists clients (both domestic and international) in potential tax controversies and tax dispute resolutions through settlements. He is a TEP member of the Italian branch of STEP (The Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners) and a member of PAIAM (Professional Advisors to the International Art Market).

What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?

As I work with many international clients, Italian restaurants are always a good choice.

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What was your first job?

I started working as a trainee at Maisto e Associati.

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What changes do you expect to see in your practice over the next year?

Artificial intelligence will be part of our professional activity… We should get the best of it!


Alessandro Bavila

Alessandro Bavila

Partner  |  Maisto e Associati
JURISDICTION

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Family Office

Trusts: Planning

Tax Advisory

Office Location

Italy

Short Biography

Alessandro is admitted to the Bar in Italy. He obtained an LL.M. Degree in Tax from the University of London and worked afterwards at the IBFD of Amsterdam as IFA researcher before joining Maisto e Associati. He has consolidated expertise in international taxation, personal and estate planning, trusts and taxation of individuals by and large. He is visiting lecturer at the LL.M. program of the University of Amsterdam and is regularly invited as speaker at conferences and seminars on tax topics. He is a member of TIAETL (International Academy of Estate and Trust Law) and PAIAM (Professional Advisors to the International Art Market), as well as an international fellow of ACTEC (American College of Trust and Estate Counsel). Since 2023, he is member of the board of the Italian branch of STEP (The Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners), of which he was previously member of the Scientific Committee.

What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?

Cipriani is always a good one.

What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?

Truth didn't ever save anyone.

What was your first job?

Researcher at IBFD.

What is the book you recommend to everyone?

"The Devils of Loudun", by Aldous Huxley.

What changes do you expect to see in your practice over the next year?

Expanding the activity with LatAm.