Finance Monthly Taxation Awards 2020

ITALY ABOUT LORENA PELLISSIER After graduating Business Administration from Bocconi University in Milan, she attained the State Degree in Professional Accountancy and Business Law Advisor (“Dottore Commercialista”). Partner in the Firm, in the twenty years of her professional experience, Lorena built up her know-how in tax consultancy to companies, particularly within the banking, corporate sectors and sales tax (VAT). She lectures at many workshops and seminars and publishes on financial press. FIRM PROFILE It was back in 1982 when Umberto Belluzzo, then head of the Riello Group, decided to abandon a brilliant and highly successful career in industry, to embark on a new professional career as a Commercialista (certified public accountant) in Italy. Growth was rapid and the experience he had gained in industry, above all at international level, qualified him as the perfect advisor to large companies and corporate groups. In 1996, after returning from professional experiences abroad, his eldest son, Luigi Belluzzo, joined the Firm and contributed to launching it at International level. The vision was to position the firm as an international practice and aim for greater depth on tax issues, as well as participating in research committees such as the CTI at the prestigious Bocconi University in Milan. In the last years of the millennium, new professionals joined, amongst them Stefano Barone, who would become the first partner, thereby opening the way for the Firm to become more of an extended family, united by shared values and excellence. At the start of the new millennium, the Firm became the Italian benchmark for tax and legal consultancy of the PKF network, which it decided to leave at the start of 2005, in order to give priority to its’ approach as an international professional boutique firm. The firm has not looked back since. Belluzzo International Partners is a multidisciplinary boutique firm, independent and forward thinking since 1982. CONTACT www.belluzzo.net/en/ CORPORATE TAX ADVISER OF THE YEAR 59