FINPRO Commercialisti & Avvocati Associati

The Group's Activity

We are a law firm based in Udine and Trieste, with another office in Trieste, in Pordenone. The firm benefits from the collaboration of ten qualified accountants, eight lawyers and one employment consultant. In addition there are six non-resident experts, ten employees and five connected service firms, which operate in the fiduciary and auditing activities, as well as in personnel management and the provision of administrative services to companies.

We work for some of the Friuli Venezia Giulia’s most exciting and successful companies, while at the same time continuing a long tradition of representing the interests of private individuals and families.

Much of what we do for clients is innovative and highly specialised. In all areas of the firm’s practice, we add value to our clients’ affairs through a combination of legal know-how, business focus and superior client service.

Aims

The FINPRO COMMERCIALISTI & AVVOCATI ASSOCIATI firm was established in 1982 by some chartered accountants and lawyers, who decided to join their professional experience in order to offer companies complete support in organisational, managerial, legal and taxation matters.

We are a dynamic, growing firm: beginning from a strictly regional activity, today, the FINPRO COMMERCIALISTI & AVVOCATI ASSOCIATI firm has extended the professional engagement of its partners and associates to an international level, namely as a member of the EuréseaU network.

With such strong contacts and connections, the FINPRO COMMERCIALISTI & AVVOCATI ASSOCIATI firm boasts a wide experience in international contractual assistance as well as in international tax and company planning.

The activity of the FINPRO COMMERCIALISTI & AVVOCATI ASSOCIATI firm covers five main departments :

    Administration and supervision

    Taxation and tax disputes

    Legal

    Exceptional affairs

    Personnel administration and management
    

Administration and supervision

This department provides steady advice and assistance on administrative, accounting and budget matters. Furthermore, it provides advice on cost analysis, management audit, economic and financial value analysis. It also carries out company and capital participation as well as capital formation assessments.
 

Taxation and Tax Disputes

Within this department, through the analysis of the legislation and legal practice, and through the interpretation of the financial administration and legal theory, the firm provides steady tax advice to companies, concerning mainly direct, indirect and minor taxes.

In this context, the firm provides services connected with filling, supervision and telematic interchange of the declarations concerning different taxes, namely as an intermediary qualified to issue conformity approvals according to the Italian decree 9 July 1997, nr. 241.

The issue of periodical explanatory circulars concerning tax developments introduced by the legislature completes the counselling activities.

The taxation and disputes domain also offers tax assistance and delegation in the event of legal procedures to tax offices or tax commissions and to any other authority concerned with tax, including field audits and assessments.

On behalf of the economic operators, a specific sector of this department focuses on tax-planning procedures as a useful international fiscal instrument, and points out the opportunities offered by foreign countries to achieve the most beneficial taxation planning.
 

Legal

The legal department mainly deals with commercial, corporate, contractual, labour and administrative law.

Specifically, the legal area includes 8 sectors:

    Civil law
    Commercial and bankruptcy law

    Family law
    Estate planning
    Insurance law
    Professional negligence
    Administrative law
    Labour law
    Contractual matters
    Dispute resolution
    Financial crime .

International company business and financial planning are the most important of our out-of-court activities. We advise on every type of commercial transaction acting for every type of business, from growing family-owned concerns to major groups. This activity is developed jointly with the departments of taxation and exceptional affairs.

The key areas in which we can help include:

    Company structures

    Merger and Acquisition

    Joint ventures

    Trusts

    Partnerships

    Sale of goods, leasing and hire arrangements

    Employment

    Litigation

    Contracts

    Finance
    

Exceptional Affairs

This department offers assistance and advice to its customers on the management of exceptional affairs such as constitution, mergers and splits of companies, operations affecting the registered capital (increases in the capital stock, issue of real or personal estate or of business, reduction in the capital due to loss or redundancy, transfers and acquisitions of capital participations).

Furthermore, it deals with problems connected with business re-organization by the research of business and/or financial partners. It handles property management, division and assignment of properties and real/personal estate – even as far as inheritance is concerned. Moreover it provides assistance in bankruptcy matters.

It also assists its customers during the negotiations and drawing up of those contracts connected with property as well as the purchase or sale of business units.

All the above-mentioned activities are carried out both in Italy and abroad.

Among the exceptional affairs departments, a company, connected with the group handles the fiduciary activity within property administration.
 

Personnel Administration and Management

The personnel administration and management department’s activity deserves particular attention as it covers several other sectors which are regulated and co-ordinated by the employment consultant.

Besides the payroll books which are kept according to the law in force, this activity includes also many other functions connected with and resulting from labour matters.

The personnel administration also provides services connected with personnel recruitment, organisation and management, labour cost analysis as well as career planning, company’s wage policy, advice and arbitration for those procedures involving labour conflicts, including the drawing up and definition of collective labour or second level contracts. In this context we offer a company check-up aiming at the correct grading of the company’s contributions and insurance obligations.

Areas of Practice

• Banking
• Bankruptcy Law
  • Restructuring and Reorganization

• Civil Law
  • Consumer Law
  • Contract Law (national/international)
  • Family Law
  • Wills, Trusts and Succession

• Commercial Law
  • Corporate Law
  • Joint Ventures
  • Franchising
  • Shareholders Rights
  • Law of Private & Public Foundations / Trusts
  • Merger and Acquisition

• Competition Law
  • Advertising law

• Criminal Law / Tort Law
  • Financial,  Tax, Bankruptcy and Company Crime

• Debt Collection
• Dispute Resolution
  • Contractual
  • Probate Disputes
  • Trusts and Trusts of Land
  • Property (private and commercial)
  • Insurance
  • Intellectual Property
  • Agency Work

• Ethics
  • Malpractice
  • Professional Liability
  • Professional Malpractice and Neglicence

• E-Commerce
  • High-Tech, Computer Law, Internet

• Finance Law
  • Asset Protection
  • Capital Markets
  • Trade Investment
  • Venture Capital
  • Agency & Distributorship
  • Business Formation
  • Mortgages

• Foreign Direct Investment
• Health Care & Social
• Import & Export
• Insolvency
• Insurance and Liability Law
  • Reinsurance

• Intellectual Property Law
  • Patents
  • Trade Secrets
  • Trademark

• International Operations
• Labour Law / Labor Law / Employment Law
  • Individual Disputes
  • Collective Disputes

• Land & Property / Real Estate Law
  • Residential conveyancing
  • Property Law
  • Leases
  • Property developments
  • Agricultural property
  • Adverse possession
  • Declarations of trust
  • Property Title Issues

• Litigation
  • Court Disputes
  • Administrative Disputes
  • Mediation and Arbitration
  • Business Litigation
  • Civil Litigation
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Alternative Dispute Resolution

• Non-profit Organizations
• Private Client
  • Succession Planning
  • Tax and estate planning
  • International Trusts and Tax
  • Power of Attorney
  • Court of Protection
  • Capacity issues and elderly and vulnerable clients
  • Financial abuse and undue influence

• Science & Technology
• Shipping Finance Law
• Tax Law
  • Tax Planning
  • Customs and Indirect Taxation
  • Litigation