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Stefano Bognandi

Partner

Stefano has a Degree in Economics (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan). He started
his career in 1995 as a fi nancial advisor at a German boutique fi rm and subsequently joined
Ernst & Young in 2001. He founded an independent advisory fi rm in 2008 and, starting from
2010, he set up a transfer pricing team to exploit his economic background and his experience
in cross border transactions, valuation and corporate reorganizations.
He started to work with Fantozzi & Associati, where he was a Junior Partner from 2016 until
December 2017. He joined LED Taxand on January 2018. Stefano has been advising domestic
and international corporate clients and investors for more than 20 years. He has a signifi cant
expertise in the area of transfer pricing covering business reorganizations, IP and business
valuation, documentation, tax disputes, APA, MAP and Patent Box.

Patrizio Braccioni

Partner
Patrizio graduated “cum laude” in Law at the University of Urbino to continue his PHD in
International and Comparative Tax Law at the University of Genoa. He started to work at the
Tax Department of Iveco Fiat in Turin in 1988. He joined Gruppo GFT, the largest Italian fashion
industry, as Group Head of Tax in 1989. From 1995 to 1998 Patrizio worked as International
Tax Director at Pirelli Group. Then he joined UniCredito Italiano Banking Group where he
was appointed Group Senior Tax Executive. In 2012 he left UniCredit Group and started his
experience at Paul Hastings Law fi rm in Milan. Since June 2019 he has been a Partner at LED
Taxand.
Patrizio has focused on tax risk control and monitoring, compliance from a tax and regulatory
perspectives, corporate governance for banks, including a “gap analysis” exercise, legal and tax
advice to insurance companies, fi nancial intermediaries and medium-sized service companies.
He also worked on FATCA legal and Italian real estate issues. Patrizio provides assistance in
litigation proceedings before Italian Tax Courts.

Francesco Cardone

Junior Partner

Francesco obtained a Degree in Law in 2004 (University of Turin), in 2010 a Master’s Degree in
Tax Law (Il Sole 24 Ore Business School), in 2012 a Master’s Degree in Tax Litigation (Ipsoa,
Wolters Kluwer Group) and in 2014 a Master’s Degree (Advanced LL.M.) in International Tax
Law from the International Tax Centre of Leiden (Leiden University, The Netherlands). He was
admitted to the Italian Bar in 2007.

After an experience with another Tax fi rm and a summer internship in the Transfer pricing team
of Baker & McKenzie Amsterdam, he worked for Fantozzi & Associati in Milan, where he was
a Senior Associate until December 2017 and joined LED Taxand on January 2018. Francesco
advises domestic and foreign companies on corporate taxation, international taxation as well
as on mergers and acquisitions. He has also gained extensive experience in relation to tax
litigation and mutual agreement procedures.

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