Zanchi & Associati is a firm of accountants and auditors providing tax and corporate consulting and accounting and administrative services, including family office services.

The Firm also specializes in handling disputes and litigation before tax courts and in assistance in crisis situations and bankruptcy proceedings.

Thanks to its working relationships with major law firms and consultancies, the Firm is able to offer its clients a full range of services.

Tax and corporate consulting

Services include tax and corporate consulting for small, medium and large enterprises (both Italian and belonging to international groups) which require personalized assistance in their routine management and strategic and organizational decision making processes to achieve fiscal optimization at personal, company and group level in step with the development of their business and current tax legislation.
By way of mere example, our main services include:

  • consulting and assistance for the incorporation of companies, associations, consortiums and temporary groupings of enterprises;
  • drafting of annual, interim and liquidation financial statements to Italian (OIC) and international (IFRS) accounting standards;
  • organization and conduct of shareholders’ meetings and board of directors’ meetings;
  • keeping of company registers;
  • drafting of annual and interim financial statements;
  • drafting of budgets;
  • consulting on transfer pricing;
  • consulting on direct taxes, VAT, local taxes and other indirect taxes;
  • drafting of all legally required tax returns;
  • drafting of client update letters.
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Tax consulting and assistance for natural persons

Services include tax consulting for natural persons, resident and non-resident.
By way of mere example, our main services include:

  • drafting of income tax returns;
  • calculation and drafting of property tax returns;
  • drafting and management of lease contracts;
  • management of domestic personnel;
  • drafting of client update letters.
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Consulting and assistance for extraordinary corporate operations and re-organization

The Firm provides specialist consulting for the planning of and assistance in the various phases of extraordinary operations and company re-organization.
By way of mere example, our main services include:

  • acquisition and disposal of shares and quotas, companies and company divisions;
  • share capital operations;
  • shareholders’ agreements;
  • mergers, demergers, conversions, contributions and liquidations.
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Tax litigation and relationships with financial authorities

Zanchi & Associati provides specialist assistance on pre-litigation and litigation procedures in support of companies and natural persons, resident and non-resident, before revenue authorities and tax courts.
By way of mere example, the Firm is able to guarantee:

  • assistance for the tax payer during assessment by the revenue authorities and/or finance police;
  • assistance, consulting and representation of the tax payer for administrative settlement of assessment reports and notices;
  • assistance, consulting and representation of the tax payer before tax courts, including:
    • drafting of questions;
    • drafting of appeals;
    • rebuttals;
    • application for suspension of collection;
    • arbitration procedures.
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Contracts

Zanchi & Associati provides consulting and assistance for the drafting and management of contracts, such as, for example:

  • articles of incorporation and by-laws of limited companies;
  • agreements between members of partnerships;
  • shareholders’ agreements;
  • preliminary contracts and definitive deeds for sale of company shares and/or quotas;
  • preliminary contracts and definitive deeds for sale of company;
  • preliminary contracts and definitive deeds for sale of company real estate;
  • preliminary contracts and definitive deeds for leasing of company;
  • commercial lease contracts.
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Technical consulting

The Firm has expert professionals who produce appraisals of companies, company divisions and equity investments; for example, for the purposes of:

  • sworn reports for extraordinary operations;
  • sworn reports for revaluations of assets and equity investments;
  • proof of the congruousness of transaction values.

Consulting and assistance for enterprise crisis management and management of bankruptcy procedures

Zanchi & Associati has wide-reaching experience in assisting enterprises in crisis and in designing and producing plans for relaunching and development on the basis of its analysis of the state of the business and the feasibility of recovery.

The Firm may advise clients on debt restructuring plans and the negotiation of out-of-court agreements. Assistance for enterprises in crisis also includes the drafting and swearing of plans for composition with creditors.

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Consulting and assistance on succession planning and other family office services

The Firm provides consulting and expert assistance, based on analysis of a family’s situation, to optimize transition between generations.
By way of mere example, such activities include: 

  • planning of succession stages;
  • consulting and assistance on donation deeds
  • setting up and management of trusts.

Zanchi & Associati’s family office also provides full support for family asset planning and management (fiscal, financial and administrative).

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Consulting and assistance on succession

Zanchi & Associati offers assistance and consulting on the drafting and filing of all succession procedures with both tax authorities and land registers.

Accounting and administration

The Firm’s accounting services include, by way of example:

  • routine bookkeeping (ordinary and simplified) of companies, no-profit organizations, sole proprietorships and professionals;
  • updating of mandatory accounting books and registers;
  • production of monthly / quarterly / annual reports (with figures and notes);
  • general admin. services, including payment of tax returns.
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Domiciliation

The Firm offers its clients legal domiciliation (election of a company’s registered office c/o the Firm’s address) and commercial domiciliation (election of domicile c/o the Firm’s address for receipt of post).

Partners

Of Counsel

Employees

Dott. Massimo Togno

Born in Milan on 24 April 1963, he graduated in Business Economics at Università Luigi Bocconi, Milan, in 1989.
He enrolled with the Milan Register of Accountants and Auditors in 1994 and the Register of Chartered Auditors in 1999.
He worked as an auditor at the audit firm Hodgson Landau Brands, Milan, and at George Funaro & Co., New York, in the United States.
He began his career in 1989 at Zanchi&Associati, where he became a partner in 1999.
He provides corporate and fiscal consulting for enterprises in the industrial and real estate sectors and advises on extraordinary operations such as mergers, acquisitions and corporate restructuring.
Over the years he has had extensive experience of family asset planning and management (fiscal, financial and administrative), also in the capacity of trustee.
He is currently a statutory auditor for a number of primary companies in the industrial, real estate and financial sectors, and is chairman of the statutory auditors of Automobile Club di Milano.

Dott. Michele Togno

Born in Milan on 17 June 1969, he graduated in Business Economics at Università degli Studi, Pavia, in 1996.
He enrolled with the Milan Register of Accountants and Auditors in 2001 and the Register of Chartered Auditors in 2002.
He did his articles (3 years) at “Studio Benatti” in Milan.
He has accumulated significant experience in the field of corporate and tax consulting, specializing in the set up of Italian branches of foreign companies and their relationships with local tax authorities and relative reporting.
He has consolidated experience of extraordinary operations, including acquisitions, restructuring and business concentrations, and of incorporation and assistance for innovative start–ups in the e-commerce sector.
He is currently a statutory auditor for various major companies in the industrial, real estate and financial sectors, including Adecco Italia S.p.a., a temporary staffing provider.

Dott.ssa Elena Zanoni

Born in Milan on 8 July 1971, she graduated in Economics and Commerce at Università Bocconi, Milan, in 1997.
She enrolled with the Milan Register of Accountants and Auditors in 2001 and the Register of Chartered Auditors in 2002.
She works with the Court of Milan in various capacities.
She joined Zanchi & Associati in 1999 and became a partner in 2004.
She provides corporate and tax consulting for small and medium size enterprises, specializing in extraordinary operations, such as mergers, demergers, liquidations, acquisitions and disposals of companies and equity investments, and in the appraisal of investments and businesses.
She also provides consulting for professionals, no-profit organizations and sole proprietorships.
Over the years she has gained experience in family asset planning and management (including donations, successions, setting up of trusts).
She also has significant experience of debt restructuring operations and crisis management, having drafted restructuring reports (under art. 182 bis, bankruptcy law) and plans for composition with creditors.
She is a standing auditor for various corporations, limited partnerships and no-profit organizations.

Dott.ssa Silvia Telloni

Born in Tradate (Varese) on 8 September 1978, she graduated in Business Economics at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, in 2002.
She enrolled with the Milan Register of Accountants and Auditors in 2006 and the Register of Chartered Auditors in 2007.
She did her articles (3 years) at “Farinella Studio Associato” in Milan.
Her career has focussed mainly on corporate and fiscal consulting for small and medium size enterprises in the areas of both routine management and extraordinary operations, such as acquisitions and disposals of companies and equity investments, mergers and corporate reorganizations.
She also advises professionals, no-profit organizations and sole proprietorships.
Over the years she has gained experience in planning and management of family assets and in assistance and consulting on the drafting and filing of succession procedures.
She also has significant experience of debt restructuring operations and crisis management, having successfully handled various compositions with creditors and acted as a liquidator.
She is a standing auditor for joint stock companies, limited partnerships and no-profit organizations.

Dott. Enrico Zanfagna

Born in Milan on 7 January 1971, he graduated in Economics and Commerce at Università Cattolica, Milan, in 1998.
He enrolled with the Milan Register of Accountants and Auditors and the Register of Chartered Auditors in 2003.
He is also on the Court of Milan Register of Technical Consultants.
He was previously an auditor at the firm of Grant Thornton Spa.
He provides corporate and tax consulting for small and medium size enterprises.
He specializes in indirect taxation and in VAT in EU and non-EU business in particular.
Over the years he has developed significant experience in tax litigation, in both the out-of-court phase and in the tax courts.
He also provides support for foreign enterprises in their relationships with the Italian tax authorities (appointment of tax representative in Italy, application for tax code, attribution of VAT number, drafting of income tax and VAT returns).
He is a director and statutory auditor of various companies in the industrial, real estate and commercial sectors.

Dott. Piero Lorenzo Zanchi

Born in Milan on 14 July 1954, he graduated in Economics and Commerce at Università Luigi Bocconi, Milan, in 1980.
He enrolled with the Milan Register of Accountants and Auditors in 1982 and the Register of Chartered Auditors in 1995.
He is a specialist in extraordinary finance operations, providing consulting and assistance in the development of companies’ business, and in crisis recovery.
He provides consulting for companies in the nautical sector, professional football and motorsports and also has family office experience in the area of investments, both in Italy and abroad.
A director of major companies, he has been chairman of Automobile Club di Milano and of Sias SpA, company that operates Autodromo Nazionale di Monza.

Dott. Raffaele di Clemente - Employee

Born in Bologna on 22 August 1969, he graduated in Economics and Commerce at Università degli Studi di Pavia in 1997.
He enrolled with the Milan Register of Accountants and Auditors in 2002, the year he joined Zanchi & Associati.
He was entered in the Register of Auditors in 2003.
A specialist in corporate and tax consulting, he has developed considerable experience in tax courts and in the settlement of disputes involving financial authorities.
He is an auxiliary at the Court of Milan in the capacity of judicial sale commissioner and custodian.
He is a liquidator for various companies.

Dott.ssa Valeria Cicala - Employee

Born in Caserta on 3 March 1969, she graduated in Economics and Commerce at Pavia University in 1994.
She enrolled with the Milan Register of Accountants and Auditors in 1999 and the Register of Chartered Auditors.
She joined Zanchi & Associati during the year 2017.
She provides corporate and tax consulting for different kind of customers: companies, professionals, no-profit organizations, proprietorships, subsidiaries of companies and foreign banks. Specialized in due diligence finalized to acquisitions of companies and extraordinary operations such as mergers, demergers and liquidations.
Direct and indirect tax expert of real estate and management of real estate companies.
Significant experience in family donation and succession operations. She is also auditor for various corporations.

Dott.ssa Roberta Colombo - Employee

Born in Gallarate on 8 July 1968, she graduated in law at University of Studies, Milan, in 1993.
She enrolled with the Busto Arsizio Register of Accountants and Auditors in 1997, with the Register of Chartered Auditors in 1999 and with the Register of technical consultants of the judge at the court since 2010.
She joined Studio rag. Luigi Colombo until 2018.
She provides corporate and tax consulting for small and medium size enterprises; she also provides consulting for professionals and sole proprietorships.
Over the years she has gained experience in donations and successions and she has developed significant experience too in tax litigation, in both the out-of-court phase and in the tax courts.
She is a standing auditor for various corporations.

Rag. Luigi Colombo

Born in Milan on 16 september 1938, he graduated in accounting in 1965.
He enrolled with the Busto Arsizio Register of Chartered Auditors in 1999.
He did his articles at “Studio Binaghi” and “Studio Colombo” in Gallarate before opening his own professional studies in in Gallarate and Sesto Calende.
He provides corporate and tax consulting for small and medium size enterprises; he also provides consulting for professionals and sole proprietorships.
He is a standing auditor for various corporations.

Zanchi & Associati
info@studiozanchi.it


  • MILANO
    Via Marina, 6 - 20121
    PH +39.02.76002342
    FAX +39.02.76281022

  • GALLARATE (VA)
    Via G. Verdi, 3 - 21013
    PH +39.0331.780297

  • SESTO CALENDE (VA)
    Via V. Veneto, 2 - 21018
    PH +39.0331.924243