Below is an illustrated list of some legal cases the firm has worked on in the last three years. Any reference to the subjects involved has been strictly omitted.
In order to provide a synthetic overview, only one case for each specialization area is presented.
Field: |
FISCAL DISPUTE |
Client: | Ironworks company |
Description: |
The client had undergone an inspection by the financial police and had been charged with the use of subjectively false invoices. The financial police suspected that the company was involved in a trilateral VAT fraud related to the purchase of raw materials. In fact the fraud was operated by an intermediary who, qualifying himself/herself as exporter, was selling the final client raw materials which s/he had bought untaxed from the producer. Therefore the intermediary made profits from the taxation. |
Field: |
CURRENCY LAW |
Client: | Building contractor resident in Venezuela |
Description: |
The client arrived in Italy with a great amount of cash (Spanish pesetas) coming from an EU country. The money was then seized and the client underwent an investigation for violation of the currency regulations, according to law n.227/90. |
Field: | EXTRAORDINARY OPERATIONS |
Client: | Engineering industry |
Description: |
Study of feasibility concerning the transfer of a branch of the industry and subsequent purchase of the real estate by a new company. |
Field: | PUBLIC BODIES TAX REGULATIONS |
Client: | Revenue agent |
Description: |
The client asked for advice concerning the drawing up of general regulations referring to revenues according to law n.446/97 and of the regulations concerning local taxes due to the municipal administrations which made use of the client's services in order to raise their taxes. |
Field: | CUSTOMS |
Client: | Textile industry |
Description: |
The client realized he exceeded the ceiling for the purchase of VAT-free goods and spontaneously decided to regularize the situation related to some imports. As a consequence s/he underwent an inspection by the competent authorities, which doubted that the client had acted in good faith and imposed additional levy. |
Field: | COMPANY SUCCESSION |
Client: | Dealer in furs |
Description: |
The firm was asked to identify the best solutions in order to plan the handing over of the society, the transfer of shares and of a considerable real estate patrimony from the parents to their sons. |
Field: | CRIMINAL-TAXATION LAW |
Client: | Trader, leader in the production of systems for artificial snow covering |
Description: |
The client was accused of issuing invoices referred to partially inexistent operations concerning sports sponsorships. |
Field: | ENVIRONMENT |
Client: | Company producing electric material |
Description: |
The firm was asked for advice concerning the correct classification of the client’s waste products and the possibility of benefitting from eco-incentives, tax exemptions or concessions resulting from the new waste disposal charge. |
Field: | COMPANY LAW |
Client: | Minority shareholders of a textile industry |
Description: |
The firm was asked for advice concerning the correct classification of the client’s waste products and the possibility of benefitting from eco-incentives, tax exemptions or concessions resulting from the new waste disposal charge. |
Field: | PUBLIC CONTRACTS |
Client: | I.P.AB. |
Description: |
The client, a public body, unilaterally cancelled a contract for the construction of a rest home for serious default on part of the contractor. |
Field: | CONTRACTS |
Client: | Company leader in the field of the automatic handling |
Description: |
The client asked for the drafting of a contract and of a secrecy agreement with the firm in charge of developing the software for the automation of the machinery produced both in Italy and in S-E Asia. |
Field: | EXCISE DUTIES |
Client: |
Engineering industry producing steel ropes and buying lubricating oil |
Description: |
The client was charged with putting on the market the above-mentioned products which are subject to the excise duty and consequently received a payment order corresponding to the due tax. |