Giusi
Lamicela
Partner – Head of Tax
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giusi.lamicela@wstlegal.eu
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+39 02 806731
Giusi has more than 30 years’ experience in providing tax consultancy and support to national and multinational medium to large enterprises.
Her clients operate in the mechanics, automotive, oil and gas, chemicals, transportation and logistics, luxury and fashion, insurance and financial sectors.
She has extensive and long-standing experience in handling tax litigation matters, both in the lower tax courts and before Supreme Court, acting on behalf of large Italian and multinational corporate enterprises litigation concerns VAT on domestic and international transactions, excise and customs duties, corporate taxes, transfer pricing, permanent establishments, tax avoidance, LBOs, taxation of cross-border and restructuring operations, tax evasion transactions and tax holidays.
Giusi is qualified to practise law and to appear in the Supreme Court, admitted to the Milan Bar Association since 1991 and the Supreme Court Bar since 2004.
Whilst handling tax litigation matters, she works in the interest of the client to pursue, to the greatest extent, the search for settlement solutions that are mutually satisfying for both the client and the tax authority. She became an expert negotiator in the area of tax settlements and judicial conciliations, during which she has obtained for her clients significant reductions of tax claims.
Thanks to the experience she has gained, she often assists those drafting financial statements as well as auditors and financial advisors, also in the acquisition phase, in the assessment of potential tax risks deriving from controversial operations or pending tax disputes.
Before concentrating full-time on tax litigation Giusi gained significant and diversified experience in the tax aspects of corporate restructuring, cross-border transactions, financial statements issues and income tax, tax evasion and abuse of tax law and on the tax planning of supply chain restructuring projects and the structuring of transfer pricing policies.
Before joining WST (formerly Fieldfisher Italy) she was the Executive Partner of a legal and tax firm, where she established and managed the tax litigation department and contributed to create the Transfer Pricing team.
Giusi was the partner responsible for the tax litigation team – which she established and structured – for Italy at one of the “Big Four”, where she also shared the responsibility for the Tax Effective Supply Chain Restructuring team.