Alessandro Bucchieri

Dr. Alessandro Bucchieri is since 2014 Head of Tax Affairs of Enel Group the largest multinational utility by market capitalization in Europe operating in more than 30 countries worldwide. Degree in Economics and Business from the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Alessandro is qualified as certified public accountant in Italy and is a member of the Italian Institute of Auditors. He joined Enel in 2007 covering different senior and executive positions in Administration Finance and Control function. From 2002 to 2007 Senior Manager of Deloitte & Touche and previously in Arthur Andersen where he started his professional career in 1993. Main focus areas are international taxation and structuring of cross border business combination and complex group reorganization processes.

Paolo Ludovici

Paolo Ludovici founded L&P - Ludovici Piccone & Partners in November 2014. Previously he worked with Maisto e Associati since its set up and he became partner of the firm in 2000. He advises on all areas of tax law, encompassing all domestic and cross-border tax matters. His expertise includes domestic and international corporate reorganizations, M&A and structured finance transactions, and tax planning for high net-worth individuals and trusts. He often acts as an expert in criminal and tax proceedings. He regularly speaks at tax conferences and lectures in post-graduate specialization courses. Paolo graduated Cum Laude in Business Administration at Bocconi University. He is admitted to the Italian Chartered Accountant Association in Milan.

Guglielmo Maisto

Guglielmo Maisto founded Maisto e Associati in 1991. He is a Professor of international and comparative tax law at the Università Cattolica di Piacenza. He is President of the Italian Branch of the International Fiscal Association (IFA), member of the Board of Trustees of the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBFD) in Amsterdam, member of the Advisory Board of the Master of Advanced Studies in International Taxation of the Lausanne University, member of the Practice Council of New York University (NYU) Law’s International Tax Program and member of the Board of the American Chamber of Commerce in Italy. He represents the Italian Association of Industries (Confindustria) at the OECD Business Industry Advisory Committee in Paris. He acted as a consultant to the Ministry for European Community Affairs and was a member of the EU Joint Transfer Pricing Forum. He is a member of several law societies and of the editorial board of various Italian and foreign tax legal journals. He usually participates as speaker at a number of annual tax conferences.

Arne Schnitger

Arne Schnitger is Tax adviser, CPA and LL.M. He is Partner in the area of International Tax Services in Berlin and a member of PwC since 2002. From 2006 until 2007 he worked for PwC in New York. Arne gives lectures at the Freie University Berlin and is author of numerous publications on questions of International and European Tax Law. He has more than 17 years of experience in advising German as well as foreign multinational groups and leads the German tax technical department of PwC.

Thomas Töben

Thomas Töben studied in Marburg and Hamburg. Since 1990, he has been a partner in leading national and international law firms and has also worked for several years in New York and Paris. He has been a guest lecturer in international tax law at the universities of Hamburg and Münster for many years. Thomas publishes regularly and has written about 200 articles on domestic and international tax law in German and English.Thomas advices domestic and foreign private investors, funds and companies on domestic and international tax issues, on corporate acquisitions, reorganizations and taxation of real property investments as well as debt restructuring and refinancing. He specializes in M&A transactions, pre-/ post-closing (re-)structuring and reorganizations as well as in private equity.Thomas also assists in tax audits and represents his clients in tax disputes before both local tax courts and the Federal Tax Court.

Charlotte Winzer

Charlotte is Vice President - International Tax Operations at Procter & Gamble, responsible for all tax operations matters outside of North America.

She joined Procter & Gamble in 1991 in the German tax department. During her career, she gained a broad wealth of experience with increasing regional responsibilities. She worked on a multitude of business situations, amongst them the establishment of a centralized supply chain and later a centralized business model in Western Europe as well as many acquisitions and divestitures.

During her career, Charlotte covered all different aspects of taxation including indirect tax, transfer pricing or US direct tax considerations. She also worked on and supervised many complex tax audits specifically in Europe.

Additionally, Charlotte is been active in tax policy matters on a national (Germany/Switzerland) level and as regards on-going international developments.