Practice areas

  • Advice and assistance on direct and indirect taxation.
  • Advice and assistance on corporate ordinary and extraordinary operations (merger, buy-outs, contributions and holding transfer).
  • Assistance in establishment of new corporate structures.
  • Tax burden optimization in the context of corporate groups.
  • Tax due diligence and fiscal check-up.
  • Assistance and advice on trust.
  • International tax planning.
  • Implementation of appropriate corporate structures, in respect of tax legislation, in order to reduce the burdens.
  • Assistance and advice in defining the global transfer price in intercompany relations.
  • Assistance in verification and other types of tax authority’s control.
  • Assistance in the handling of pathological stage with the tax authorities: assessment by adhesion, self-defense, conciliation proceedings.
  • Handling of the relationships with the tax authorities.
  • Advice and representation in litigation at all stages of the proceedings, including the Supreme Court.
  • Defense in proceedings before civil and administrative courts, as well as before administrative and control authorities in every stage of proceedings.
  • Support for the resolution of out-of-court disputes, transactions and conciliations.
  • Preparation, evaluation and negotiation of various contract types.
  • Assistance to the company's extraordinary transactions such as mergers, transformations, split ups, transfers, disposals, liquidations.
  • Participation, analysis of pre-feasibility and feasibility study of the securitization.
  • Search of national and international partnerships.
  • Assisting and coaching companies in the start-up in Italy and abroad.
  • Planning for business continuity and succession of the entrepreneur.
  • Advice and assistance on obtaining, maintaining and legal defense of trademarks and patents.
  • Valuation of intangibles.
  • Implementation of social budget.
  • Management of corporate reorganizations.
  • Administrative law.
  • Corporate accounting and fiscal declaration.
  • Stock records management.
  • Preparing the annual budget and all the consequential pratical requirements.
  • Book keeping.
  • Fiscal rapresentation for VAT for non-EU companies.
  • Labor law consultancy, trade union rights and social security legislation.
  • Staff administration and human resources (monthly and annual).
  • Tax credits for production, distribution and industrial enterprises and post-production techniques, as well as for the enhancement of the cinema offer and for the attraction of cinema and audiovisual investments in Italy.
  • Other tax benefits.
  • The Firm advises athletes, agents, coaches, clubs, leagues and federations, national and international, on different issues related to the sector.
  • It provides assistance in relation to the drafting of sponsorship contracts, transfers of players, as well as in relation to regulatory issues and national and international disciplinary.
  • The professionals of the sports law team also provide assistance in international litigation before the judicial bodies of FIFA, the Basketball Arbitral Tribunal (BAT) and the Arbitral Tribunal for Sport of Lausanne (TAS/CAS).
  • F&C offers legal assistance to collectors, intermediaries and artists.
  • Collectors are offered assistance and advice in sales and acquisitions, in dealings with auction houses, galleries and museums, as well as judicial protection in the context of judgments for the authenticity of works.
  • Intermediaries are offered assistance in contracts and found raising and in all possible judicial phases related to this.
  • Artists are offered assistance in their relations with bodies and institutions and in concluding commercial contracts and in implementing all permitted forms of protection against abuses and violations of copyright.
  • VAT Consultancy, Compliance & Book-keeping
  • Assistance to domestic and foreign clients on technical and practical applications of Italian and EU VAT regulations.
  • Devise and implementation of VAT compliance project.
  • Assessment of internal VAT procedures to improve tax control frameworks also through automation solutions.
  • Preparation and filing of domestic VAT periodic filings (Annual VAT Return, Quarterly VAT calculations, Esterometro, Intrastats, etc.) and mandatory VAT book-keeping.
  • VAT Representation
  • Foreign businesses established outside the European Union, selling goods directly to private individuals in Italy (e.g. distance sales) or which don’t want to operate locally through a PE/subsidiary, must appoint a VAT Representative jointly liable for all VAT obligations in Italy.
  • The VAT Representative allows foreign businesses to comply with all Italian VAT obligations and exercise the related rights as a local established business.
  • Thanks to its expertise and capabilities in tax and accounting services accrued over the years, F&C Studio Legale Tributario in partnership with TBS Consulting offers first class VAT Representation Services to foreign businesses operating in several industries (e.g. Oil & Gas, Fashion, Arts, etc.) together with all relevant VAT compliance & book-keeping assistance.