About

Provided by Escalar & Associati

The firm, together with its team of talented professionals, provides to leading companies, including listed companies, banks, financial intermediaries and insurance companies, as well as major trade associations:

  • highly qualified tax and legal advice through the preparation of pro veritate legal opinions, studies, memoranda and strategic proposals on complex matters relating to the establishment and restructuring of companies and corporate groups, the structuring of financial, insurance and digital products, financial transactions and extraordinary transactions, combining the optimisation of tax and legal strategies with the highest standards of tax and legal compliance, drawing also on the firm’s experience in tax and legal litigation.
  • Representation and assistance in tax ruling procedures before the Revenue Agency, as well as in complex tax audits and other investigations, and in tax settlement procedures and judicial tax conciliations.
  • Legal representation and assistance before the Tax Courts of Justice, including in complex and serial tax litigation involving multiple tax years and/or multiple companies, also in proceedings aimed at recovering undue taxes.
  • Legal representation before the Italian Supreme Court (Corte di Cassazione), the Italian Constitutional Court (Corte Costituzionale), and other national and European higher courts.

Chambers Review

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Tax - Italy

5
Band 5

What the Team is Known For

Escalar & Associati is a specialist boutique that is recognised for its tax litigation expertise. The law firm advises leading Italian and European banks, insurers and corporations on a wide range of contentious matters, including tax refund claims, transfer pricing challenges, tax avoidance and VAT fraud claims, as well as regulatory disputes.

Work Highlights

  • Escalar & Associati assisted Banca Mediolanum with a EUR50 million claim for the refund of local taxes on dividends received by Italian banks, insurance companies or financial intermediaries based in other EU jurisdictions.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Gabriele Escalar
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Gabriele Escalar
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Band 1
Gabriele Escalar of Escalar & Associati is well known for his litigious practice, routinely assisting clients with tax disputes against the Italian authorities. He frequently handles matters involving multiple jurisdictions.

Gabriele is appreciated for the passion with which he approaches problems, analyses and studies complex situations and proposes possible strategies to minimise problems.

Gabriele is a highly experienced professional.

Gabriele Escalar is an excellent and available professional, with notable dialectical skills in managing complexities.

The level of complexity he addresses is always considerable and always well managed.

Ranked Lawyers at
Escalar & Associati

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Gabriele Escalar
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Gabriele Escalar
Head of Tax
5
Band 5
Tax: Litigation

Gabriele Escalar
1
Gabriele Escalar
1
Band 1

Members

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Agostino Aurelio Sarzana

Alessandro Siragusa

Gabriele Escalar

Gabriele Escalar

Head of Department

Stefano Selbmann