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Giulia is senior partner in the private client and tax team and head of tax and wealth planning in Italy.
She advises individuals, families and business owners on Italian tax, wealth planning and international private client matters, with a focus on cross-border tax planning, estate and succession planning and relocation to Italy.
Italian tax planning for international clients
Giulia advises new residents, inbound regime applicants and high net worth and ultra high net worth clients on Italy’s Flat Tax Regime and other bespoke tax incentives for individuals and companies relocating to Italy. Her work includes domestic and international taxation of wealth matters, real estate, art collections, matrimonial property regimes, international wills and dual citizenship.
Cross-border wealth, estate and succession planning
Her cross-border private client work includes pre-immigration and offshore tax planning, inheritance tax planning and the structuring of family assets across jurisdictions. Giulia has experience advising clients with connections to Brazil, Mexico, Israel, the United Kingdom, the United States, Africa and Australia, including on family-owned businesses, succession planning, governance structures and cross-border tax strategies.
Tax advice for art, cultural assets and creative industries
Giulia also advises on tax-related matters involving art, cultural assets and creative industries. Her work includes wealth management and transgenerational planning for collectors and art businesses, fiduciary and holding structures, estate planning, charitable entities and foundations, as well as tax and legal considerations connected with the movement, ownership and protection of works of art.
Notable recognition
Giulia has been recognised by Chambers High Net Worth, Legal 500 EMEA and other legal directories for private wealth and private client work in Italy. She is a Trust and Estate Practitioner (TEP) and is involved in international tax and private wealth organisations, including STEP, the International Bar Association and the International Tax Planning Association.
In 2025, Giulia was elected member of the advisory board of the International Tax Planning Association (ITPA) and since 2023, she is part of the Milan Bar's Tax Disputes Commission.
She has been recognized since 2018 by the international legal directory Chambers, in the High Net Word guide, as one of the best Private Wealth Lawyer in Italy.
Recent recognition
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Track record
International music bands review of corporate structure and management contracts as well as a band's member relocation to Italy
Assisted well-known international music band as well as one of their members, in the review of his international corporate structure and contracts for the management of the band musical and image rights, also in light of the new Italian tax residence of one of the band's members.
Fashion business
Assisted the Italian subsidiary of a French fashion house in relation to the management of their brand under new Patent Box regulations.
Italian professional football league
Assisted an Italian professional football league on tax matters.
Major Japanese fashion
Advised a major Japanese fashion brand on tax issues relating to the opening of a branch in Italy.
US property company
Assisted a US property company with the tax aspects of their acquisition and cross-border financing of a flagship property located in Milan's prestigious fashion district.
Well-known international sportsman
Assisted a well-known international sportsman with the creation of an Italian charity to support philanthropic projects and fundraising events in Italy.
Talks
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'Will My Estate Plan Travel Abroad?' and 'International Income Taxation of Trusts,' STEP International Tax and Estate Planning Forum - May 4, 2022, speaker
- Giulia has appeared several times on Class CNBC TV commenting on topical tax matters
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Interviewed here after receiving Legalcommunity's 2016 award for tax innovation, Giulia Cipollini comments on the advantages of the new Patent Box regime for Italian companies.
Insight
External publications
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'Moving mountains. What it means to create a life in a new country, by choice or by force,' Withersworldwide, 7 May 2021, co-author
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'The export of artworks from Italy is made easier at last,' Withersworldwide, 9 November 2020
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'Nuove frontiere del wealth Management', Privatebankingweb.com, 21 April 2017 co-authored with Giada Mazzola
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'Parte la caccia ai ricchi di Londra', Pagina 99, 4 April 2017
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'Benvenuto in Italia', Tax Advisor, 1 April 2017 co-authored with Giorgio Vaselli
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'Exchange of Information and Italians with Overseas Tax Residence: Italian Tax Authorities Gain Significant New Tax Audit Powers', Global Tax Weekly, 23 March 2017 co-authored with Giada Mazzola
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'Recent Italian Tax Developments', Global Tax Review, 8 December 2016 co-authored with Giada Mazzola
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'Italy Seeks to Use IP Tax Relief to Spur Innovation', Bloomberg BNA - April 2016
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'Italian Job', Accountancy - January 2016
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'All roads lead to Rome - The most attractive changes for cross-border investments', STEP - Journal - December 2015
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'The New Italian Patent Box Regime', International Tax Review - September 2015
Admissions
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Italy, 2003
Education
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IBFD - International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, PhD from La Sapienza School of Law, Italy
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University of Ferrara, Italy, JD equivalent, magna cum laude, post-graduate course in International Taxation
Languages
- English
- Italian
Memberships
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Special Commission on Fiscal Studies of the National Council of Italian Notary Publics in Rome, 2002-2007
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AITC Association of International Tax Consultants (Board member)
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Italian Charity Committee of 100 Women in Hedge Funds
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Associazione Studi Legali Italiani Commission on Taxation and Trusts
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Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (Board member and Secretary of the Italian Branch)
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International Fiscal Association
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'Il Trust in Italia'
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Italian Bar
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'Wealth Planning Journal', advisory board
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Novak Djokovic Foundation ONLUS, Vice President
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Member of the advisory board of the International Tax Planning Association (ITPA)
Key dates
- Year joined: 2014
- Year became partner: 2015