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Valente Associati GEB Partners / Crowe Valente

Italy

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Key contacts
Managing Partner: Piergiorgio Valente
International Liaison Manager and Board Member: Carola Valente Della Rovere
Quick facts
# Partners

15

# Other qualified practitioners

55

# Total number of practitioners

70

# Practitioners (worldwide)

55

Languages

English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish,Chinese

Network memberships

Crowe Global; TPA Global; GTAP (Global Tax Advisers Platform); CFE Tax Advisers Europe; ANDAF; IAFEI; CNDCEC; OECD; AOTCA

Key practice areas
General corporate tax
Indirect tax
Private client
Tax
Tax controversy
Transactional tax
Transfer pricing
Firm overview
Crowe Valente is a leading Italian advisory firm, headquartered in Milan, with integrated expertise across Tax, Legal, Corporate Finance, Business Advisory, Compliance, and Payroll & HR.

We advise a broad range of clients – from listed companies, multinational groups and SMEs to public institutions and governments – combining technical excellence, commercial insight and a pragmatic, solution-oriented approach.

Crowe Valente has received several prestigious recognitions, including Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year at the TopLegal Awards 2026, being shortlisted for Tax Disputes Advisory Firm of the Year at the EMEA ITR Tax Awards 2025, Indirect Tax Advisory Firm of the Year at the EMEA ITR Tax Awards 2024, and Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year at the EMEA ITR Tax Awards 2023-2024.

Crowe Valente now counts on a team of more than 70 professionals. Our multidisciplinary team includes attorneys, certified public accountants, engineers, economists, statisticians and programmers, allowing us to deliver seamless, end-to-end support on complex domestic and cross-border matters.

This breadth of expertise enables us to address not only technical issues, but also the strategic, operational and execution challenges that clients face in an increasingly demanding business environment.
Key practice areas

  • Business model optimisation
  • Cross-border project management
  • Economic modelling
  • IP management
  • Policy design
  • Technology services
  • APAs
  • Corporate taxes
  • Cost-sharing arrangements
  • Environmental
  • Financial services
  • M&A
  • Restructuring
  • Transactions
  • Value chains
  • Arbitration
  • Audit defence
  • Audit support
  • Competition/anti-trust cases
  • Controversy management
  • Dispute resolution
  • Litigation
  • MAPs/ADRs
  • Pre-litigation
  • Customs
  • GST
  • Supply chains
  • VAT
  • International tax advisory
  • Tax consulting
  • US inbound
  • US outbound
  • Business restructuring
  • International tax planning
  • TP policy design
  • TP risk management
  • For more information click here
Key practice contacts & recent matter highlights

  • Name: Piergiorgio Valente
    Tax consulting
    E: p.valente@crowevalente.it
    1) Advised an Italian entity in a complex €15 million transfer pricing dispute involving two foreign related parties.
    2) Represented a multinational taxpayer in cross-border tax litigation concerning penalties linked to transfer pricing documentation, following a MAP settlement for the 2012–2014 tax years.
    3) Advised on a group reorganisation following the sale of its principal brands to a new holding company, from structuring through implementation.
  • Name: Federico Vincenti
    International tax planning
    E: f.vincenti@crowevalente.it
  • Name: Antonella Della Rovere
    Business model optimisation
    E: a.dellarovere@crowevalente.it
Sector expertise

  • Accounting
  • Agriculture
  • Aviation
  • Automotive
  • Banking
  • Construction and materials
  • Consumer goods and services
  • Energy
  • Financial services
  • Fisheries and aquaculture
  • Food and beverage
  • Forestry
  • Gaming
  • Government and public policy
  • Healthcare
  • Industrials
  • Insurance
  • Investment management
  • Media
  • Mining
  • Natural resources
  • Oil and gas
  • Pharmaceutical and life sciences
  • Real estate
  • Shipping
  • Social infrastructure
  • Technology and telecommunications
  • Tourism
  • Transport
  • Utilities
  • For more information click here
Other offices

  • COMO OFFICE
    Via Alessandro Volta, 66
    Como
    22100
    Italy
    E: info@crowevalente.it
    W: https://www.crowevalente.it
  • VENICE OFFICE
    Viale Trieste, 18
    Venice
    30029
    Italy
    E: info@crowevalente.it
    W: https://www.crowevalente.it
  • SYRACUSE OFFICE
    Via Unione Sovietica, 6
    Syracuse
    96100
    Italy
    E: info@crowevalente.it
    W: https://www.crowevalente.it
Address:
Viale Bianca Maria, 45
MI, Milano
Italy
Tel:+39 02 7626 131 Email:Contact Us Web Address:https://www.crowevalente.it
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Overview

Valente Associati GEB Partners / Crowe Valente is a premier Italian firm offering legal, tax, transfer pricing, and strategic consulting services. A member of Crowe Global, the firm is known for its expertise in tax planning, litigation, corporate restructuring, and international taxation. With 70 professionals, including ex-Big 4 experts, it serves multinational corporations and SMEs. The firm is recognized for its strength in MAPs, APAs, and complex negotiations. Managing Partner Piergiorgio Valente is a leading authority in tax and governance at national and international levels. 

During the research period, the firm provided comprehensive legal and tax representation in a highly complex €15 million transfer pricing dispute involving an Italian entity and two foreign-related entities. In addition, the firm played a critical role in a complex cross-border tax litigation, successfully advising and representing a multinational taxpayer in a dispute over 90% administrative penalties imposed due to missing contemporaneous transfer pricing documentation, despite a Mutual Agreement Procedure (MAP) settlement for the 2012–2014 tax years in Italy. 

 Client Feedback 

”Fast. Specific. Tailored.”

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Valente Associati GEB Partners Crowe Valente is a premier Italian firm providing legal, tax, transfer pricing, and strategic management consulting services. The team specialises in tax planning, restructuring, corporate governance, criminal tax, transfer pricing, litigation, dispute resolution and international taxation. Managing partner Piergiorgio Valente is a key individual at the firm.

Throughout the research period, the firm was involved in the reorganisation resulting from the sale of a prominent group's principal brands to a new holding company, from design to implementation. Furthermore, the team guided a significant energy drink firm on tax advisory from MAP application through negotiation.

Greta Brivio, senior tax manager from Grant Thornton Italy, and Cristiana Colleoni, tax director from Ceppellini Lugano & Associati, joined the firm during the research period.

Client feedback

“Competence, value for money.”

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