Story of Studio Benedetti

Studio Benedetti, founded in 1989 by Renzo Benedetti (1918-1998) and Enrico Benedetti, combines tradition and continuity with dynamism enabling operation on an international level.
The firm, which has always paid particular attention to building trusting relationships with client sadhering to their needs and perspective, has grown over the years thanks to the development of the clientele and the employment of young professionals, many of whom started their professional careers and were trained internally at Studio Benedetti.
The firm started its business with Dr. Renzo Benedetti, a Tax Law scholar boasting a long and distinguished career in Financial Administration, doing tax consultancy and with his son Enrico, in the second half of the eighties.
After a period of collaboration primarily with Studio Castelli Oldoini and with Prof. Giancarlo Croxatto, Assistant Professor in Tax Law at the Faculty of Economics in Genova, Renzo and Enrico Benedetti started working independently in 1989, specialising in consultancy for businesses and companies, with particular attention to tax consultancy, tax litigation, corporate consultancy, accountancy plus extraordinary deals like mergers, acquisitions, sales, transformation and reorganisation of companies, as well as the tax issues of families holding significant assets.
The firm is growing and focusing more on issues with greater legal content, both due to Enrico Benedetti’s interest in legal matters, and for the increasing commitment of the firm to M & A activities with the ever increasing greater need to tackle contractual issues and disputes.

From the beginning of the current decade, the firm has evolved providing a more organised structure to the legal department, with the introduction of the first internal lawyers, and furthermore some of the accountants, including Enrico Benedetti himself who graduated in jurisprudence and obtained the qualification to practice the legal profession.
Due to this, legal consultancy in the contractual and corporate field has been further developed. The firm has also begun providing legal assistance in civil litigation, in the field of economic and tax crime.
This “development model” was chosen specifically, not to simply bring lawyers and accountants under the same roof in the hope of them collaborating, but to form a group of professionals who, even on an individual level, and in their respective specialisations, could develop their awareness and capacity to perceive problems and solutions that belong to the training of both lawyers and accountants.
The path followed has had a positive response in the field and has also led to a sizeable expansion, with the acquisition of new office space in 2016 in a prestigious location in which the firm had already been operating for over two decades.
The firm, which still remains faithful to its “artisanal” approach, can now cover a wide range of tax, civil and criminal issues related to the business world and wealth management.
The firm takes care of the interests of businesses, different sized companies, including multinationals active in the industry (with particular reference to the steel industry, construction, chemistry, renewable energy, shipbuilding), logistics (with particular interest in activities relating to ports, terminals, delivery companies etc.) and generally in the shipping field and related services.

Founder

After years of work experience in other fields while he was young, he started his professional career alongside his father Renzo Benedetti in the mid 80s when they founded Studio Benedetti, that today has been in business for almost 30 years, housing lawyers and accountants in the offices at number 2 Via Serra. He has been enrolled with the Register of Accountants and Commercial Experts, Registered Chartered Accountants and Accounting Experts, since 1990, and is on the Register of Auditors. Enrico Benedetti graduated in Economics and Commerce at the University of Genoa and later graduated in Jurisprudence in Rome. In recent years, other than leading the expansion of the firm on an increasingly complex and international level, he has held the post of auditor in many companies and public bodies of primary importance. He was President of the Board of Auditors of the Ligurian Region and of the Municipality of Genoa. He has also held positions as Receiver and as an expert of the Court of Genoa in the valuation of companies, for which he has drawn up appraisals to value important manufacturing industries. In 2014 he obtained the legal practice qualification and from that year he registered with the Order of Lawyers of Genoa. As a legal consultant, he has dealt with cases on a national level. He is currently mainly engaged in the following activities: fiscal and tax litigation consultancy, corporate consultancy, extraordinary corporate operations, contractual consulting for businesses companies and different bodies, civil commercial and labour law disputes disputes, maritime and portlaw, wealth management, corporate crime.

Professionisti

  • Sara Bertora

    Her main responsibilities are fiscal and tax litigation consultancy, corporate consultancy, account auditing and wealth management.

    Graduated in Business and Economics at the University of Genoa, she began working at Studio Benedetti at the start of her professional career. She obtained the qualification to practice as a chartered accountant in 2005 and enrolled on the Register of Auditors in 2006. She is a highly experienced in taxmatters.

  • Davide Ghio

    His mainly deals with in tax consultancy, tax disputes, corporate consultancy, extraordinary items, contract consultation for businesses, companies and diverse bodies, crisis and reorganisation of businesses and account auditing.

    Graduated in Economics and Commerce at the University of Genoa and started his employment with Studio Benedetti in 1995. Obtained the legal practice qualification for accountants in 1999 and enrolled with the Register of Auditors the same year. In 2013 obtained a degree in Jurisprudence at the University of Rome. After qualifying to practice as a lawyer, from 2017 he is enrolled on the Register of Lawyers at the Order of Genoa. He has held and currently holds numerous roles as Chairman of the Board of Statutory Auditors, effective auditorand liquidator.

  • Alessandro Caruso

    After having gained experience in the field of civil and administrative law, he now mainly deals with contractual consulting for businesses companies and different bodies, civil commercial and labour law disputes disputes as well as maritime and port law.

    Graduated in 2011 at the University of Genoa where he attended a five year course for a Master’s degree in Law. Registered with the Order of Lawyers of Genoa since December 2014 after obtaining the legal practice qualification he started working with Studio Benedetti.

  • Andrea Tistarelli

    Judicial assistance and consultancy in the areas of civil, administrative, corporate and purely tax law.

    He obtained the qualification to practice the forensic profession in October 2014, following a course of study at the University of Genoa that passed through a master's degree in law, with a thesis in Trust law (February 2012) and a Specialization Diploma from the School of Specialization for the Legal Professions, with a thesis on the pre-contractual liability of the PA for revocation of the award (June 2014). Enrolled in the Genoa Bar, he immediately began to collaborate with Dr. Enrico Benedetti.

Collaboratori

Obtained an Accountant and Commercial Expert Diploma in 1987 and has been enrolled with the Register of Accountants of Genoa since 2001, currently on the Register of Chartered Accountants and Accounting Experts. She has collaborated with Studio Benedetti since 2007 and deals with the technical-accounting side of administration and secretarial aspects.

In collaboration with Studio Benedetti since 2009, he deals with the technical-accounting side of administration and secretarial aspects. In 2016 he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Business Economics.