Elisabetta Colombo

Elisabetta Colombo is an associate and tax adviser at Bureau Plattner, the Italian professional services firm recognised as winner of the Corporate Acquisitions Law Firm of the Year in Italy award at the 2024 Corporate INTL Global Awards. She works within a multi-disciplinary practice whose combination of tax, legal and financial expertise underpins its work on corporate acquisitions and other extraordinary transactions.

Bureau Plattner is a substantial firm with more than two hundred and fifty team members, operating across seven Italian offices in Bolzano, Genoa, Merano, Milan, Padova, Treviso and Venice, and maintaining a representative office in Munich, Germany. This geographic spread, together with its German presence, reflects a strong orientation towards internationally active businesses, and in particular towards companies with cross-border interests connecting Italy and the German-speaking markets. The firm describes its approach as one that combines competence and international experience with practical, solution-oriented thinking.

The firm's services span tax and legal advisory, audit, corporate finance, accounting, payroll and insolvency and restructuring. In the field of mergers and acquisitions, Bureau Plattner supports clients through the complete transaction lifecycle, providing tax, legal and financial due diligence and business valuation alongside negotiation and the preparation of the documentation required for extraordinary transactions. This integrated capability, drawing together the tax, legal and financial strands of a deal within a single firm, is central to its offering in corporate acquisitions, and the involvement of tax advisers such as Colombo is integral to the due diligence and structuring that acquisitions require.

Bureau Plattner places particular emphasis on serving internationally active companies with business activities in Italy, assisting them with establishing operations, managing compliance, handling transfer pricing and navigating VAT requirements for non-resident entities. For an inbound investor pursuing an acquisition in Italy, this ability to combine transactional support with ongoing tax and compliance advice provides continuity from the completion of a deal through to the operation of the acquired business.

As an associate and tax adviser within this practice, Elisabetta Colombo contributes to the tax dimension of the firm's transactional work, an essential element of any corporate acquisition. The recognition conferred by the 2024 Corporate INTL Global Awards affirms Bureau Plattner's standing as a leading Italian adviser on corporate acquisitions and reflects the strength of the integrated, multi-disciplinary model in which she works. In keeping with the information publicly available about the firm, this profile focuses on the practice and its capabilities rather than attributing specific matters to any individual adviser.