CBA Studio Legale e Tributario

Tax

Partner

Since 2020 he is Partner in CBA. Stefano is a tax lawyer and is an expert in corporate and international taxation issues, corporate acquisitions and restructuring, and tax litigation.

He is a regular consultant for companies, including listed companies, and industrial and financial groups, both Italian and foreign. He assists clients in all stages of tax assessment and litigation up to the higher courts.

He has in-depth experience in generational business transitions and family business transfers.

In the field of corporate crisis management, he has gained significant experience in the conclusion of debt restructuring agreements and in the management of judicial arrangements.

Stefano has been included among the “Top 10 Influencial Tax Lawyers in Italy” by Business Today and has been prized during the Legalcommunity Tax Awards 2023 as “Professional of the year for Tax Litigation”.

In 2019 and 2017 during the Legalcommunity Tax awards he was prized for “Best Practice Tax Litigation”.

During the TopLegal Awards 2012 Mr. Petrecca was prosed as “Tax Professional of the Year”.

He is ranked in Chambers and Partners and Legal 500 since 2010.

Italian and English

Member of the Rome Bar, 1986;

Member of the Register of Auditors, 1996;

Admitted to practice before the Supreme Court, 1998;

Registered to the “Expert Business Crisis Negotiator", 2022;

Registered to the Chamber of Arbitration - International Section, 2022.

Graduated in law, magna cum laude, Università La Sapienza, Rome, 1982.

Professor of Tax Law, Stefano lectures particularly on international and corporate taxation and is a regular speaker at IBA (International Bar Association).  Conferences; Professor in tax law at the "Università Telematica Internazionale Uninettuno"; Lecturer for higher courses at the Scuola di Polizia Tributaria della Guardia di Finanza (Italian Tax Police Academy); From 2007 to 2016 lecturer at the “Università di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale”; From 2003 to 2006 he was former lecturer at the Scuola Superiore dell’Economia e delle Finanze (Advanced Economics and Finance School); He was lecturer for the E.R.E.F. Master (Executive Real Estate Finance) at the Luiss University – Management School.

He was a member of the Associated Studies Commission of the Rome Bar Council (Commissione Studi Associati del Consiglio dell’Ordine degli Avvocati di Roma); From 2006 to 2008 he was Vice-Chairman and Conference Coordinator of the Tax Committe of International Bar Association (IBA); He represents ASLA within Confindustria-Assoconsult and was coordinator of the Tax & Legal section of the Collegio dei Probi Viri. He was member of the Board Secretary of the Institute for International Taxation Inc (IITI).