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About
Damiano provides advice on UK tax, trust law and succession planning to individuals, trustees and family offices.
Damiano’s clients range from ultra-high net worth entrepreneurs to families with multi-generational wealth.
Damiano advises on a range of matters, from complex tax structuring – including on the abolition of the non-dom regime on 6 April 2025 – to the running and reorganising of multi-jurisdictional trusts and family structures. Damiano also has significant transactional experience in managing and overseeing associated changes to large corporate structures.
Damiano’s practice covers contentious matters, such as disputes both with tax authorities (in the UK and abroad) and intra-families/family structures.
Almost all of Damiano’s work has an international element and involves cross-border issues. As a bilingual English-Italian dual national, also conversant in French, Damiano understands the value of effective communication and cultural nuances. He has experience working with overseas lawyers in multiple jurisdictions, including Italy, France, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Japan and the US.
Damiano has been published in Tax Journal and PLC Magazine. He is a member of STEP (Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners) and holds the STEP Advanced Certificate in UK Tax for International Clients.
Experience
- Acting to regularise the tax position of a family trust with beneficiaries in multiple jurisdictions in the context of deep family tensions, whilst also exploring novel questions of trust construction
- Advising on a developing HMRC enquiry in respect of pre-2017 structuring, including on the availability of the motive defence
- Advising executors of a multi-billion pound estate with assets in over ten jurisdictions, including consideration of testamentary provision in accordance with forced heirship
- Advising on a long-running dispute between current and former trustees of a multi-billion dollar trust, including providing litigation support.
- Advising on the purchase of UK residential property, enveloped through offshore companies, worth tens of millions of pounds.
- Conducting a remote due diligence exercise on the seller of a fiduciary and corporate services business.