Elisabetta Colombo

Elisabetta Colombo is an associate and tax adviser at Bureau Plattner, a multidisciplinary professional firm whose corporate acquisitions practice was named Corporate Acquisitions Law Firm of the Year in Italy at the Corporate INTL Global Awards 2025. As part of a firm that brings together legal, tax, financial and audit expertise under one roof, Ms Colombo contributes to the advice on which internationally active businesses rely when structuring and completing transactions in the Italian market.

Bureau Plattner is a substantial firm, with more than 250 team members across seven offices in Italy, in Bolzano, Genoa, Merano, Milan, Padua, Treviso and Venice, together with a representative office in Munich, Germany. This scale and geographic reach, combined with the firm's genuinely multidisciplinary structure, allow it to serve clients across the full range of professional needs, from tax advisory and planning and legal advisory through to audit, corporate finance, accounting and payroll, and insolvency and restructuring. The firm describes its strengths as competence and international experience, allied to a practical, solution-oriented way of thinking, and it focuses in particular on advising internationally active companies with Italian business operations.

The corporate acquisitions work for which the firm has been recognised sits at the heart of this offering. Bureau Plattner provides extensive support for extraordinary transactions, including tax, legal and financial due diligence, business valuation, the structuring of mergers and acquisitions, and the negotiation and documentation of contracts, as well as handling complex litigation of national and transnational scope. This integrated approach is well suited to acquisitions, where the tax, legal and financial dimensions of a deal are closely interdependent and where an adviser able to address them together can deliver a more coherent and efficient result for the client.

As a tax adviser, Ms Colombo works within this transactional environment, where the tax analysis of an acquisition, from due diligence through to the structuring of the deal and the treatment of the resulting entity, is central to its success. The firm's particular strength in advising foreign investors establishing Italian entities or permanent establishments, and in supporting them from company formation through to ongoing compliance, transfer pricing, VAT registration and crisis management, makes tax expertise an integral part of its corporate acquisitions capability, and Ms Colombo forms part of the team that delivers it.

Through its combination of scale, multidisciplinary breadth and international orientation, Bureau Plattner has established itself as a dependable adviser to businesses transacting in and with Italy, offering end-to-end support across the life cycle of an investment. The recognition of its practice as Corporate Acquisitions Law Firm of the Year in Italy at the Corporate INTL Global Awards 2025 affirms the quality of that work, to which Ms Colombo contributes as an associate and tax adviser within the firm's integrated professional team.