Mr Raffaele Russo > Chiomenti > Rome, Italy > Lawyer Profile
Chiomenti Offices

VIA XXIV MAGGIO, 43
00187 ROME
Italy
- Firm Profile
- Go to...
Mr Raffaele Russo

Work Department
Partner - Tax
Position
Raffaele is an expert on international taxation and on international and domestic tax policy. He has more than 20 years of experience, having worked with the IBFD in Amsterdam, the OECD in Paris and the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance in Rome. At the OECD, he worked on double tax treaties and on transfer pricing. He played a key role in launching and delivering groundbreaking projects like the OECD work on tax and crimes and the work on aggressive tax planning, which later became the OECD/G20 BEPS Project, which he led until the delivery of the first phase of the Project in 2015. During his service at the Italian Ministry of economy and finance, he focused on reforming the tax administration and on the digitalization of invoices and receipts. He was then appointed Deputy Chief of Cabinet in charge of taxation and of digitalization from early 2020 to March 2021.
He lectures in leading universities around the world and speaks frequently at conferences and seminars. He has published more than 100 articles in Italian and foreign journals.
Career
Raffaele Russo joined the Firm as of Counsel in 2022 and became a Partner in 2023.
Languages
Italian, English, Spanish, French
Memberships
Member of the Rome Bar (Italy), 2022
Education
Master Up Level Napoli – Scuola di Management, (Italy), 2000
Graduated in Law, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II (Italy), 2001
LL.M. International Taxation, Leiden University (Netherlands), 2002
Lawyer Rankings
Italy > Tax
(Next Generation Partners)Recent activity for Chiomenti‘s tax practice includes major cross-border M&A deals. The group also has enviable financial sector expertise and its tax offering covers international fund and real estate structuring, reoganisations and implementing transactions in Italy, as well as audits, litigation and private clients. Raul-Angelo Papotti attracts client praise for his ‘outstanding abilities’; Massimo Antonini is a widely respected tax litigator; and Marco Di Siena is a tax and planning specialist. Other names to note are Paolo Giacometti, Giuseppe Andrea Giannantonio, Raffaele Russo, Antonino Guida, Giuseppe Zorzi, Gian Gualberto Morgigni and Elisabetta Costanza Pavesi.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Administrative and public law
- Banking and finance: Bank regulatory
- Banking and finance: Borrower side
- Banking and finance: lender or arranger side
- Capital markets: Debt
- Capital markets: Equity
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution
- Employment
- EU and competition law
- Industry focus: Luxury goods
- Industry focus: Retail
- Private equity
- Real estate and construction
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Tax