Our Offering by Size of Business
Global enterprises aim to high quality and branded services, assuring the expected outcomes and accompanied by a seamless delivery capacity around the world.
Valente Associati GEB Partners stands well above these performance requirements for the following service areas:
- Group (re)design of structures, value chains and processes
- Tax policies and tax risk mitigation
- Value chain management and Transfer pricing policies
- Tax litigations and Criminal tax law
Valente Associati GEB Partners is also able to serve global clients with the following solutions:
- Global business solutions, to support by outsourcing the essential business needs of payroll, accounting and corporate secretary to foreign establishments
- Global mobility solutions, to deliver consistent support to your employees in every country they are detached.
Italian “pocket” multinationals have to manage the complexities of the international markets together with a still strong local cultural base. Effectiveness, flexibility and timely delivery are service imperatives for them, together with an entrepreneurial attitude to risk taking.
Valente Associati GEB Partners can deliver a wide range of services aligned with the needs and the service level requirements of “pocket” multinationals:
- Support to any extra-ordinary transactions (Acquisition, divesture, spin-offs, etc.)
- Assistance on strategic option evaluation, development of the business strategies and related change management initiatives
- Group (re)design of structures, value chains and processes
- Support to growth through assistance in partnership development and teaming with your development teams
- Advice on tax policies and tax risk mitigation
- Value chain management and Transfer pricing policies
- Advocacy on Tax litigations & Criminal tax law
- Advice on Cybersecurity
- Teaming of our specialists with your personnel in the digitalization of the business and in extracting useful information from the mass of data you are gathering from social, sales and operations.
Valente Associati GEB Partners is also able to serve multinational clients with the following global solutions:
- Global business solutions, to support by outsourcing the essential business needs of payroll, accounting and corporate secretary to foreign establishments
- Global mobility solutions, to deliver consistent support to your employees in every country they are detached.
The services we tailored specifically on SMEs needs are:
- Tax assistance
- Legal assistance
- Outsourcing of general accounting and administration
- Income tax and VAT compliance
- Outsourcing of Payroll
- Outsourcing of Corporate Secretary
- Privacy/GDPR
We are also prepared to serve the SMEs in the case of extra-ordinary events or business discontinuity like the following:
- Assist the enterprise and its management team to share strategies and implementation actions
- Support in the purchase or sale of the business and in business partnering
- Company (re)design (structures, value chains, processes)
- Claims with tax authorities or other parties
- IP and brand protection
- Teaming of our specialists with your personnel in the digitalization of the business
Valente Associati GEB Partners can be your provider of choice also for these “non-recurring services”: whenever possible, we create mixed teams between professionals specialized on the service and our personnel located in your territory.
The core offer of Valente Associati GEB Partners to SMEs addresses their paramount requests for efficiency and "no headache" solutions.
We also have the competencies to advise on:
- Investment structure
- Business modelling
- IP and brand protection
- Tax and other incentives to innovative start-ups
Valente Associati GEB Partners is prepared to serve the Start-Ups with a “turn-key” outsourcing package for accounting, payroll, secretarial, tax compliance and legal compliance.
Our Offering by Type of Business
Valente Associati GEB Partners adopts a multi-competency service model and has developed a wide range of services to provide support during the whole business life-cycle. We could be the ideal partners for a private equity firm to team with, in order to boost its proprietary core competencies.
Depending on your needs, we can provide tax and legal specialists, business experts and risk experts and, when required, corporate finance specialists.
Valente Associati GEB Partners can support you for the entire life-cycle of an investment, from the structuring of the acquisition to the divesture or IPO.
We can also intervene, bringing a clear value added proposition, on certain non-recurrent events in your participation business; like:
- Change in strategies and company (re)design (structures, value chains, processes)
- Tax optimization
- Claims with tax authorities or other parties
- IP and brand protection
Valente Associati GEB Partners understands this dilemma and offer to the professionals a “Best friendship agreement”, assuring them the intervention of our specialized resources under their coordination and a non-competition agreement on the client.
Our professionals developed a long dated expertise in these relationships, generally assisting on these types of “events”:
- International tax issues
- Transfer pricing
- Tax disputes
- Criminal tax law
- We also assist arbitrators and mediators with our forensic services.
A professional constantly oriented to serve clients’ ordinary business may be caught unbalanced by non-recurrent events or surprises. Depending on the professional’s choices, the risk is to perform poorly with the clients or to leave the client to be served by an aggressive competitor.
Valente Associati GEB Partners currently addresses the recurrent needs of the private clientele with the following services:
- Tax compliance
- Tax advice
- Legal advice
- Personal accounting
- Donations and successions
- Tax disputes and representation
- Legal disputes and advocacy
Valente Associati GEB Partners also developed specialised competencies and organized services to address the more complex needs of specific clusters of clientele:
- Support for transactions and mobility in art, antiques and luxury goods
- Asset protection
- Integrated advice to entrepreneurs (tax, legal, financial, business)
- Integrated advice to international clients
- Tax, legal and compliance issues on foreign investment by Italian residents
Valente Associati GEB Partners also provides assistance to governmental authorities in negotiations of bilateral and multilateral agreements between/among States and between/among States and supranational institutions on the following matters:
- elimination of double taxation;
- enhancement of investments;
- information exchange, tax transparency and international administrative cooperation.
We carry out substantial and ongoing policy-making activities in all EU and international tax area.
Depending on your needs, we can provide tax and legal specialists, business experts and risk experts and, when required, corporate finance specialists.
Valente Associati GEB Partners can help you meeting transparency & compliance requirements, managing risks, addressing governance, improving operational efficiencies and addressing trends and specificities of the not-for-profit sector.
We offer a multi-disciplinary suite of services focused on the specific needs of the not-for-profit sector. Being part of a top 10 international accounting and advisory network with a top-notch team of dedicated professionals in this sector, allows us to support you across multiple countries.
Our Offering by Status of Business
Valente Associati GEB Partners helps its clients to timely meet their growth aspirations without incurring in unwanted risks and unnecessary expenses.
We offer a wide range of advisory services to support business growth, encompassing:
- Support to evaluate the strategic options for growth and the strategies to “acquire” markets or offering
- Support to acquisition of businesses
- Assistance in developing market business partnerships
- Tax and legal advice for foreign establishments
- Support to the client’s development teams
- Teaming of our specialists with your personnel in the digitalization of your customers’ experience and distribution channels
- Teaming of our specialists with your personnel to extract from the mass of data you are gathering (social network, sale systems and other sources) the information needed to improve your market effectiveness and your product and pricing policies
- Improvement of the marketing performance
- IP and brand protection
We offer a wide range of advisory services to support the quest for efficiencies and synergies, encompassing:
- Support to evaluate the strategic options for optimization and to define the operational strategies to extract efficiencies and synergies
- M&A support to “acquire” synergies and divest unearning assets
- (Re)design of group or company structures, processes and value chains
- Tax optimization
- Change management
- Post-acquisition integration services
- Teaming of our specialists with your personnel to extract from the mass of data you are gathering (social network, sale and operation systems and other sources) the information needed to improve your operational efficiencies and inventory flows and optimize the supply chain
- Outsourcing solutions for general accounting, payroll, secretarial, global mobility
Valente Associati GEB Partners helps its clients to timely meet their optimization targets without incurring in unwanted risks and unnecessary impacts on market propositions and company’s core competencies.
Whatever the drivers of change, may be the deliberate disruption of an incumbent business model or the alignment to the “ecosystem” of customers, providers and stakeholders, almost any organization have to consider the ever evolving digital technologies as a critical enabler to be competitive (or, worst, as a strategic threats to its market position).
The changes might affect one or more of the following company’s business areas:
- Offering: new products or services, new customer experiences or bundling of services and products
- Client base: new market clusters and new distribution channels
- Optimization of the operating model, with changes in the processes of marketing and sale, R&D, production or service delivery, logistic, support services (IT, Finance, HR, general services)
- Extension of the enterprise’s perimeter, in terms of new business partnerships and supply chain integration together with all the information and logistical flows
The market is crowed with technological solutions, even excellent ones, offering to almost any organizations the necessary backbone to digitalize part of their business.
Valente Associati GEB Partners focussed on helping its clients in obtaining the best from the available technological solutions, mitigating the risks originated by the change and optimizing the overall investments and running costs of the digital initiatives.
We developed a multi-competency service model to assist our clients in every phase of the digitalization projects, bringing in the competencies most needed in that phase. Our services encompass:
- Assistance to evaluate the strategic opportunities and risks to digitalize part of the business and to define the operational strategies
- Project management or project monitoring
- Governance and organizational alignment
- Advice to manage emerging risks and to improve Cybersecurity
- Support to structure the technological and business partnerships
- Tax advice to align tax policies: value chain management, indirect taxes, permanent establishments, transfer pricing documentation
- Legal advice for drafting agreements with new clients, suppliers and providers
- Alignment of the compliance system: L. 231, L. 262, Privacy Policies and GDPR
- Assistance to align the Quality system and the other systems for organizational performance
- Alignment of the administrative processes and the accounting system
- Alignment of the planning and control system
- Teaming our business and technological specialists in “Big data” to obtain the best from the data you gather
Valente Associati GEB Partners can also be the partner of choice in the case an organization opts to “spill-out” the competencies and resources to develop a truly based digital business. Thank to our multi-competency service model we can deliver the entire and sole range of services to optimize your start-up. Our supports may encompass the following:
- Assistance in selecting the investment structure
- Support to the entire process of spin-off
- Business modelling
- IP and brand protection
- Tax optimization of the start-up and the parent group
Whatever the drive (a generational change, the settlement of fully empowered external top managers or the opening to a private equity firm) an entrepreneurial organization has necessarily to face a “one-in-a-life” event: the transfer of powers from the entrepreneur (generally the founder) to another subject.
This event is always a source of stress for all the company’s stakeholders and, sometimes, it can originate the seeds for business’s underperformance and stakeholders’ dissatisfaction in the long term.
A proper planning for these changes in ownerships require extended knowledge and a fair approach, managing the trade-offs between the business perspective and the entrepreneur’s expectations and the conflicts of the short term urgencies and apprehensions with the long term value creation objectives. Valente Associati GEB Partners’s personnel has the competencies and the standing to assist either the entrepreneur either the company to properly manage the entire process of the transfer of ownership. Our services may encompass:
- Assist the planning of the entire process
- Support the Company’s reorganization to separate businesses and interests
- Assist in managing the tax profile of the shareholders
- Support the transfer of the ownership
- Align the governance system (articles of association, shareholders’ agreements, service agreements)
- Assist the new management in implementing the management tools (strategy and target settings, business planning and control, incentive systems)
As a company’s financial position deteriorates, troubled entities may need to take action and implement turnaround restructuring plans.
Valente Associati GEB Partners can help identify and assess alternatives and provide information to help maximize recoveries or minimize losses. Our restructuring professionals include financial, tax, legal and risk experts with deep industry expertise who can provide analysis and implementation in all phases of the restructuring process.
As advisers to distressed entities, we help companies stabilize financial and operational performance by addressing problems head-on and driving rapid change to preserve and create value.
We offer a full range of restructuring advisory services, including:
- Financial restructuring to stabilize financial performance:
- develop and implement turnaround restructuring plans
- manage creditor negotiations
- plan before bankruptcy
- execute after bankruptcy.
- Operational performance improvement:
- analyse current operations and recommend operational revisions
- develop and implement high impact business plans to help improve cash flow and achieve sustainable results.
- Financial advisory services for rapid results:
- develop critical cash conversation procedures
- evaluate alternative financing options
- plan for and executing expedited sales of non-mission-critical assets
- assist in bankruptcy proceedings.
- Interim management to fill the gaps. Our restructuring consultants can seamlessly step into key leadership positions to provide critical support and accelerate the restructuring plan.
Our Expertise by Industry
Valente Associati GEB Partners is serving some well renowned brands in Apparel, Luxury and Fashion. Our services encompass:
- Group reorganizations
- Value chain management and transfer pricing assistance
- International and Italian tax advisory and assistance
- Assistance in foreign establishments
Valente Associati GEB Partners has also the competencies to deliver outstanding value in the following areas:
- Support to joint ventures and partnership structuring
- Assistance to international development and to acquisition and divestures
- Teaming in your projects to digitalize the customers’ experiences, the distribution channels and the supply chain, bringing in the specialists you require
- Teaming of our specialists with your personnel and your technological providers to improve the understanding of your customers’ behaviours via the data gathered in your social and other digital channels
- Teaming with your specialists for Brand protection
- Improve performance and control over your distribution channels and points-of-sale
- Integrated approach to Data Privacy / GDPR
Valente Associati GEB Partners developed distinctive expertise in serving components makers, importers and dealers’ networks. Our services mostly encompassed the followings:
- Tax compliance and tax advice
- Outsourcing of general accounting, payroll and company’s secretary services
- Assistance in tax disputes
Valente Associati GEB Partners can also deliver outstanding value in the following areas:
- Legal advice and compliance (GDPR)
- Support to any type of M&A and extraordinary transactions
- Management of fine and penalties
- Teaming in your projects to improve your digital blueprint and to optimize the supply chain, bringing in the specialists you require
- Teaming of our specialists with your personnel to apply advanced analytics to the sales and operational data you collect and interpret it to have a better understanding of your client base, inventory flows and optimization opportunities in your operational model
Our personnel acquired distinctive expertise in serving multibusiness, multichannel banking groups, encompassing the following:
- Design and implementation of systems for:
- financial planning and control
- plan, report, control and reward the financial promoters’ performance
- monthly reporting, consolidation and performance analysis
- data warehousing for multibusiness, multichannel control
- Transfer pricing
- Banks’ evaluations
Valente Associati GEB Partners has also the competencies to deliver outstanding value to multi business, multichannel banking groups in the following areas:
- Value chain management and transfer pricing
- Integrated approach to Privacy and compliance
- Teaming of our specialists with your personnel to apply advanced analytics to the social and transactional data you collect and interpret it to reveal ways to improve customers’ experience, operational performance, investment decision, credit concession and pricing
Valente Associati GEB Partners’s personnel acquired distinctive specializations in working with companies selling products to end users, like furniture, electronic apparel and personal care. Our services mostly included:
- Group reorganizations
- Support to acquisitions and post-acquisition integrations
- Value chain management and transfer pricing
- Tax and Legal advice
- Design and implementation of systems for:
- plan, report, control and reward the salesmen’s performance
- credit management, order control and receivable collection
Valente Associati GEB Partners has also the competencies to deliver outstanding value to Consumer Products’ companies in the following areas:
- Assist in evaluating the challenges to the business (private labels, changes in consumers’ behaviours and shopping habits, spending shrinking, distribution channel re-shaping, IoT impacts) and in selecting the appropriate strategies
- Support to joint ventures and partnership structuring, to develop distribution channels and key suppliers
- Teaming in your projects to improve the digital experience of your customer and to optimize the supply chain, bringing in the specialists you require
- Teaming of our specialists with your personnel to apply advanced analytics to the large amount of social, sales and operational data you collect and interpret it to reveal ways to improve operational performance, market effectiveness, pricing and supply chain
- Teaming in brand protection
- Integrated approach to Data Privacy / GDPR
- Improve performance and control over your distribution channels and points-of-sale
Our personnel acquired distinctive specializations in serving Energy and Chemical companies, encompassing the following:
- Group restructuring
- Value chain management and transfer pricing
- International and local tax advice
- Assistance in tax disputes and criminal tax advocacy
- Assistance to foreign permanent establishments
Valente Associati GEB Partners has also the competencies to deliver outstanding value in the following areas:
- Assist in evaluating the challenges to the business (commoditization, changes in customers’ and suppliers’ behaviours) and in selecting the appropriate strategies
- Support to joint ventures and partnership structuring
- Support to tax, legal, compliance risk management in foreign markets
- Tax policies and international tax advice
- Advice in administrative law and assistance in disputes
- Start-up packages in foreign countries and Global mobility services
- Teaming of our specialists with your personnel to apply advanced analytics to the sales and operational data you collect and interpret it to reveal ways to improve operational performance, market effectiveness and supply chain optimization
- Teaming in IP development and protection
Valente Associati GEB Partners has the competencies to deliver outstanding value to Engineering and Construction companies in the following areas:
- Support to joint ventures and partnership structuring
- Support to tax, legal, compliance risk management in foreign markets
- Tax policies and international tax advice
- Assistance in tax disputes and criminal tax advocacy
- Forensic and litigation support
- Advice in administrative law and assistance in disputes
- Start-up packages in foreign countries and Global mobility services
- Teaming in IP development and protection
- Teaming of our specialists with your personnel to apply advanced analytics to the sales and operational data you collect and interpret it to reveal ways to improve operational performance and optimize the supply chain
Our personnel acquired distinctive expertise in serving large and medium Food & Beverage companies, encompassing the following:
- Support to company acquisitions and post-acquisition integrations
- Valuations of businesses and trade marks
- Spin-off and reorganization of businesses
- Design and implementation of financial planning and control systems
- Value chain management and transfer pricing
- Tax and Legal advice
Valente Associati GEB Partners has also the competencies to deliver outstanding value to Food and Beverage companies in the following areas:
- Assist in evaluating the challenges to the business (private labels, changes in consumers’ behaviours, income shrinking, distribution channel re-shaping) and in selecting the appropriate strategies
- Support to joint ventures and partnership structuring for international development
- Teaming in your projects to digitalize customers’ experiences, distribution channels and supply chains, bringing in the specialists you require
- Teaming of our specialists with your personnel to apply advanced analytics to the social, sales and operational data you collect and interpret it to reveal ways to improve operational performance, market effectiveness, pricing and supply chain
- Improve performance and control over your distribution channels and point-of-sale
- Teaming in brand protection
- Integrated approach to Data Privacy / GDPR
Valente Associati GEB Partners’s is serving organizations in healthcare services and pharmaceutical & medical products. Its personnel acquired distinctive specializations, encompassing:
- Value chain management and transfer pricing
- Tax and Legal advice
- Advice on Privacy and GDPR
Valente Associati GEB Partners has also the competencies to deliver outstanding value to Healthcare’s organizations in the following areas:
- Support to structure joint venture and partnership and to draft licensing and other knowledge transfer agreements
- Teaming in your projects to digitalize the distribution channels and the supply chain, bringing in the specialists you require
- Teaming of our specialists with your personnel to apply advanced analytics to the social, sales and operational data you collect and interpret it to reveal ways to improve operational performance and market effectiveness
- Teaming in IP and brand protection
Valente Associati GEB Partners’s personnel acquired distinctive expertise in working with many Italian Groups, serving a wide variety of industrial users, from food to medical and chemical products, local and international. Our experiences encompassed the following:
- Support to strategic planning and Group reorganizations
- Support to acquisitions, partnership and joint ventures
- Support to permanent foreign establishments
- Business valuations
- Post-acquisition integration plans
- Value chain management and transfer pricing
- Tax and Legal advice
- Assistance in tax disputes and criminal tax advocacy
Valente Associati GEB Partners has also the competencies to deliver outstanding value to companies serving industrial clients in the following areas:
- Assist in evaluating the challenges to the business (redefinition of clients’ business models, changes in industries’ boundaries, new technologies and IoT impacts, distribution channel re-shaping) and in selecting the appropriate strategies
- Support to draft licencing and other knowledge transfer agreements
- Teaming in your projects to digitalize the clients’ experience and the supply chains, bringing in the specialists you require
- Teaming of our specialists with your personnel to apply advanced analytics to the sales and operational data you collect and interpret it to reveal ways to improve operational performance, pricing and supply chain
- Improve performance and control over your direct and indirect sale and distribution channels
- Teaming in IP protection
Our personnel acquired distinctive specializations in serving large insurance groups, including the following:
- Design and implementation of group’s strategic planning processes
- Support to companies’ acquisitions and to post-acquisition integration plans
- Project management for “lean organization” initiatives
- Systems for departmental knowledge sharing within the group
- Design of internal control systems and enterprise risk management models
- Design of multi company data warehouses for financial control
Valente Associati GEB Partners has also the competencies to deliver outstanding value to the Insurance industry in the following areas:
- Teaming in your projects to digitalize the customers’ experiences and the distribution channels, bringing in the specialists you require
- Teaming of our specialists with your personnel to apply advanced analytics to the social, underwriting and operational data you collect and interpret it to reveal ways to improve operational performance, market effectiveness and policy design and pricing
- Improve performance and control over your multichannel distribution model
- Integrated approach to Data Privacy / GDPR
Our personnel acquired strongly distinctive expertise serving Gaming companies, Football clubs and Art exhibitions. Our experiences included:
- Support to acquisitions and post-acquisition integrations of gaming’s distributors;
- Assistance in negotiating concession, franchise and distribution agreements
- Reorganization and efficiency improvement of gaming’s distributors and point of sales
- System for the scouting and comparative evaluation of footballers. Support to plan the purchase and sale campaigns of footballers
- Financial planning and control of football clubs
- Assistance in negotiating exhibition agreements and in implementing the logistical infrastructure
In addition to the above expertise, Valente Associati GEB Partners has the appropriate mix of competencies to deliver outstanding value to specific clusters of clients:
- Agents of sport players: integrated advisory on tax, legal and compliance issues and risks of the players’ agreements
- Sport clubs: Support to evaluate the club’s risk profile of the players’ agreements, bringing in the competencies you need
- Gaming concessionaires: Teaming of our specialists with your personnel to apply advanced analytics to the social, sales and operational data you collect and interpret it to reveal ways to improve sales and operational performance
Valente Associati GEB Partners currently assists a wide range of service firms, ranging from hotels and restaurants to professional services firms and “new economy” companies. Our services mainly encompass the following:
- Tax compliance and tax advice
- Outsourcing of general accounting, payroll and company’s secretary services
- Assistance in tax disputes
Valente Associati GEB Partners has extended the service capacity to these companies, to become the provider of choice for most of the management and financial assistance needs of a service firm company:
- Legal advice and legal compliance (GDPR)
- Support to any type of M&A and extraordinary transactions
- Assist the international development
- Management of fine and penalties
- Support in IP protection and development
- Improve marketing and sale performance and financial planning and control capabilities
- Teaming in your projects to digitalize the customers’ experiences, the distribution channels, the operational model, bringing in the specialists you require
Valente Associati GEB Partners’s is serving companies applying various retail models, from traditional to pure digital. Our personnel acquired the following distinctive specializations:
- Group reorganization
- Support to acquisitions and Post-acquisition integrations
- Value chain management and transfer pricing
- Tax and Legal advice
Valente Associati GEB Partners has also the competencies to deliver outstanding value to Retail companies in the following areas:
- Assist in evaluating the challenges to the business (changes in consumers’ behaviours and shopping habits, income shrinking, dominance of e-commerce and deep discounts) and in selecting the appropriate strategies
- Support to joint ventures and partnership structuring with distribution channels and key suppliers
- Teaming in your projects to digitalize the customers’ experiences and the supply chain, bringing in the specialists you require
- Teaming of our specialists with your personnel to apply advanced analytics to the social, sales and operational data you collect and interpret it to reveal ways to improve sales, operational performance, pricing and supply chain
- Teaming in brand protection
- Integrated approach to Data Privacy / GDPR
Valente Associati GEB Partners’s is serving companies in electronic consumers, IoT enabled apparels, industrial technologies and data transmission. Its personnel acquired distinctive specializations, encompassing:
- Value chain management and transfer pricing
- Tax and Legal advice
- Assistance in tax disputes
In addition to the above expertise, Valente Associati GEB Partners has the appropriate mix of competencies to deliver outstanding value in the following areas:
- Assist in evaluating the challenges to the business (commoditizing, reducing product life cycles, new players, new technologies) and in selecting the appropriate strategies
- Support to joint ventures and partnership structuring for integration of the supply chains
- Performance improvement in the distribution channels and points-of-sale
- Design and develop an integrated approach to Data Privacy / GDPR
- Teaming of our specialists with your personnel to apply advanced analytics to the enormous social, sales and operational data you collect and interpret it to reveal ways to improve operational performance, market effectiveness and supply chain optimization
Our personnel acquired distinctive expertise in serving Italian groups in transportation and logistic, encompassing the following:
- Value chain management and transfer pricing
- Tax and Legal advice
- Assistance in tax disputes
In addition to the above expertise, Valente Associati GEB Partners has the appropriate mix of competencies to deliver outstanding value to specific clusters of clients:
- Assist in evaluating the challenges to the business (integration, digital disruptors, changes in customers’ and suppliers’ behaviours) and in selecting the appropriate strategies
- Support to joint ventures and partnership structuring for integration of the supply chains
- Performance improvement in the distribution channels and point-of-sale
- Design and develop an integrated approach to Data Privacy / GDPR
- Teaming of our specialists with your personnel to apply advanced analytics to the enormous social, sales and operational data you collect and interpret it to reveal ways to improve operational performance, market effectiveness and supply chain optimization