CORPORATE AND CONTRACT ADVICE
Advice and assistance with domestic and international company matters: setting up companies and associations, extraordinary operations (transformation, takeovers, splitting, concentration, winding-up), corporate, merger and acquisition capital transactions, definition of relationships between shareholders, and between shareholders and boards. Advice on preparing contracts dealing with economic matters. Advice and assistance regarding assignments for the benefit of creditors and all arrangements releasing the debtor in general. Arbitration.
 
ORDINARY AND EXTRAORDINARY ASSISTANCE, REPRESENTATION AND ADVICE ON TAX MATTERS
We examine the interpretation and application of national and international regulations on the subject of direct and indirect taxes, duties and excise to ascertain correctness. Assistance in compiling tax returns. We prepare opinions with relevant justification as well as updates on new tax matters and issues of general interest. We check income elements to ascertain their adequacy for the purpose of tax certification issuance. Assistance and representation in dealings with tax authorities. We plan operations for the internationalization and optimization of the tax positions of companies and shareholders.
 
ECONOMIC CONSULTATION AND BUSINESS ASSISTANCE
We provide assistance and advice for business concerns, and can be appointed administrative duties on company boards. Business surveys and appraisals compiled for the purpose of purchase or sale, and to ascertain whether businesses are being run with due diligence. External auditing, analysis of financial statements, budgets and business plans. Advice in planning business re-organization. Advice and assistance, in Italy and abroad, on management of personal properties and on capital structure: studies and plans relating to the ratio between risk and borrowing capital, advice on the most suitable technical form of financing (mortgages, bonded loans, leasing, factoring, project financing etc.), studies conducted and necessary measures taken for placing securities on the market .
 
ASSISTANCE IN PROCEEDINGS
Advice and assistance in instituting and requesting bankruptcy proceedings. The Practice's partners are appointed to perform tasks by the courts and by central and local administrative authorities to do with bankruptcy proceedings, surveys, legal assessment, expert witness duties, winding-up by court and forced liquidation.
 
FIDUCIARY ACTIVITIES
Custody and safekeeping of assets and companies. Through its associated companies, the Practice can offer services typical of trust companies, both in Italy and abroad.
 
AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING ASSISTANCE
Advice on setting up an accounting system and on everyday bookkeeping, outsourced or otherwise. Assistance in compiling and drawing up annual accounts, group balance sheets, extraordinary accounts and accounting statements provided for by civil code regulations, and by national and international accounting principles. We can be appointed to sit on the board of auditors of companies and public bodies. Legal and voluntary auditing of annual or extraordinary accounts. Extraordinary auditing.
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