Tax Advisers - Deloitte

Switzerland
Pietro Sansonetti
Schellenberg Wittmer
15bis, rue des Alpes
PO Box
CH-1211 Geneva 1
Switzerland
Tel: (41) 22 707 8000
Fax: (41) 22 707 8001
Email: pietro.sansonetti@swlegal.ch
Website: www.swlegal.ch
Pietro Sansonetti is a tax partner in the Geneva office of Schellenberg Wittmer. His
practice focuses on domestic and international corporate tax matters, including
complex situations requiring discussions with tax authorities. He is also active on
behalf of individual clients, especially in tax issues related to partnerships and private
clients and in enforcement matters.
Mr Sansonetti is a former director of tax affairs (chief tax officer) at the Geneva Tax
Authority. He has also been chairman of the Swiss Examination Commission for Tax
Experts. He joined Schellenberg Wittmer as a partner in 1999. Mr Sansonetti lectures
regularly at international and Swiss seminars sponsored by the IFA and various Swiss
tax and law societies, as well as at the Swiss Tax Academy (Tax Expert School). He has
published on a range of tax and legal issues within his professional expertise.
Mr Sansonetti was born in 1960 in Switzerland. He graduated from the University of
Geneva School of Law in 1982. He was admitted to the Geneva Bar in 1985 and
became a Swiss certified tax expert in 1990, while a tax manager with Arthur Andersen.
He is fluent in English, French, German and Italian.
Schellenberg Wittmer is one of the leading business law firms in Switzerland with
offices in Zurich and Geneva offering the expertise and specialization of more than
100 lawyers. The firm’s core practice areas are corporate/mergers and acquisitions,
banking and finance, capital markets, tax, private capital/estate planning, and dispute
resolution. Its corporate/mergers and acquisitions practice group, one of the largest
and most specialized in Switzerland, is supported by experienced teams in tax, IP/IT,
real estate and merger control, as well as insolvency and restructuring, and is
complemented by the firm’s litigation and arbitration practice group with extensive
expertise in corporate and mergers and acquisition matters.
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