About us

What we do

Four things, in practice. We form Italian companies and get them entered in the Registro delle Imprese (the Register of Companies): an S.r.l., an S.r.l.s., an S.p.A., or a branch of a foreign company. We transfer ready-made companies where a timetable will not wait for a fresh incorporation. We handle the tax identifiers and the reporting that follow, from the codice fiscale and the partita IVA through electronic invoicing to the annual bilancio (the statutory accounts). And we take applicants through the authorisations some businesses need before they can trade at all: crypto-asset services under MiCA, payment and e-money institutions, trade marks.

Around those sit the unglamorous parts that decide whether the rest actually works: the registered office, the beneficial owner filing, the director's digital domicile, the conversation with a bank, and the residence permit a founder may need in order to be present at all. Most of the problems we are called in to fix started in one of those.

The service pages set out each of these in full. If you are at the beginning, Italian company types is the page that decides the rest.

Who we work with

Non-resident founders and foreign companies entering the European Union through Italy. A first EU subsidiary for a business that already trades elsewhere. A holding or an intellectual-property structure. An e-commerce or fintech company that needs an EU establishment and a VAT number to go with it. A family moving to Italy who need a company alongside the move.

Not Italians setting up locally, not tourists, not people looking for work and not property buyers. Those are all well served by others, and we would be the wrong choice.

The common thread is distance. Our clients decide on Italian law from outside Italy, usually in a second language, often against a deadline set by something other than Italy. That is why our pages give the sequence and the deadline for each step rather than a single headline figure: from a distance, knowing when is worth more than knowing how much.

Where we work

Italy, and only Italy. One country, one set of registers, one calendar of deadlines. The team works from Milan and Rome, and everything on this site is Italian law and Italian procedure: the Codice civile, the Agenzia delle Entrate, the chambers of commerce and the Registro delle Imprese, Banca d'Italia and CONSOB where an activity is supervised, UIBM for trade marks.

We do not advise on any other jurisdiction. When the answer to your question turns out to sit in another country's law, we say so instead of improvising, and the improvising is what usually costs people money.

How we work with facts and sources

That discipline has a cost, and we accept it. It makes the pages longer, and it makes some of them end in "it depends, and here is exactly what it depends on" rather than in a clean number. We think that is the honest shape of the answer. It is also the difference between a page you can act on and a page you have to go and verify yourself.

We cite what a notary or an official would cite: Normattiva for the statutes, the Agenzia delle Entrate for tax practice and forms, registroimprese.it and the chambers of commerce for the register, Banca d'Italia, CONSOB and ESMA for supervised activity, UIBM for trade marks, and EUR-Lex for European instruments. We do not cite other advisers' marketing pages and we copy nothing from them.

Article numbers, form codes and dates are set in a monospaced face throughout the site, so that the things you will need to quote to somebody else are the things easiest to find again. When the law changes, the page changes and records when.

Every substantive page names the person who wrote it and a second person who checked it, and the checker is never the author. That is not decoration. It means somebody is answerable for what is on the page.

The people

Three specialists, one for each part of the work. Each writes the pages in their own area and checks the pages of one of the others.

• Giulia Mancini, Head of Corporate Formation, Milan: incorporation of an S.r.l., an S.r.l.s. or an S.p.A. for non-residents, remote incorporation by videoconference, ready-made companies, branches and subsidiaries, and filings with the Registro delle Imprese.
• Alessandro Ferri, Tax and Accounting Lead, Rome: IRES and IRAP, VAT and the partita IVA for non-residents, the codice fiscale, electronic invoicing, the annual accounts, the regimes for new residents, and corporate tax residence.
• Marta De Luca, Regulatory and Licensing Lead, Milan: MiCA and crypto-asset service providers, payment institutions and e-money institutions, the beneficial owner register, nominee services and substance, trade marks, and the visa routes open to a founder.

Their roles, years of practice and specialisations are set out on the team page.

What we do not do

• We do not publish a price list. What a matter involves depends on the form of company, the shareholders, whether a notary attends in person or by videoconference and what has to keep running afterwards. A figure without that behind it is a guess dressed as a quote. We quote against your case, once we know what your case is.
• We do not publish a phone number. A question about Italian company law deserves an answer with the source attached, and that is a written answer. Everything runs through one form and one inbox.
• We do not claim Italian professional titles or membership of a professional order. In Italy those sit in open public registers and a false claim is disproved in a minute. Where a matter requires a notary or a registered professional, it goes to one, and we tell you that it has.
• We do not give legal advice on a specific case through this site. The pages describe Italian law and procedure as they stand. Your own facts can change the answer, which is why the first thing we ask for is your facts.
• We do not name clients and we publish no case studies. Setting up a company is not something most people want their name attached to on somebody else's website.

How to reach us

One form, one inbox. The contact form reaches [email protected], the only address we publish, and the reply comes from whichever of the three of us the question belongs to. If you already know what you want built, the onboarding questionnaire collects the whole picture in one pass and saves a round of questions.

Nothing is charged for a first exchange, and nothing is signed at that stage.