Firm’s Profile

How Do We Differentiate Ourselves and Provide Value To Our Clients?
Cutting Edge Technology Platform, International Experience, Exclusive Focus on International Matters

Marco Q. Rossi & Associati is an innovative, international boutique law firm designed to provide clients with effective management of critical international legal projects and strategic tax planning and advice on cross border transactions. We are adept at managing complex global legal programs spanning many operational areas and requiring effective international legal and tax strategies and executing them tactically.

We maintain and exclusive focus on international taxation and business law, providing international legal and tax services on international matters to business and individual clients. Our firm operates through offices in Italy and the U.S., assisting individual and corporate clients engaged in international activities, operations and investments and advising them on complex international legal and tax transactions.

“We are a truly international boutique law firm focusing exclusively on international legal and tax matters and serving international businesses, families and individual clients”

Our cutting-edge legal service platform sets it apart as a truly innovative boutique global law firm of the 21st century, strategically positioned to effectively and professionally represent multinational enterprises, family-owned companies and international families and individual clients in today’s globalized world. We purposely deploy a flat operational structure in order to provide value for money, high quality legal services. The Firm is connected to its partners and experts around the world through technology, utilizing sophisticated knowledge and information management systems. Its structure translates into our clientele receiving value for money, efficient legal and tax advice.

“We use a cutting edge technology platform, working efficiently together from different locations and sharing our knowledge within the team and with our clients”.

Our team includes bilingual and dually qualified international attorneys working together through the use of a technology platform to provide first class legal services.

“We are a team of international bilingual and dually qualified lawyers focused on executing and delivering complex global legal projects on time and on budget”.

Any law firm should answer a fundamental question: “What specific value can you bring to our representation?”. Our reply rests on specific attributes that help us provide value-for-money and high-quality services to clients and bring something unique to our representation. We identify and illustrate them here below. In preparing our illustration we have focused on what clients think is important, based on our experience and client’s feedback. We hope that the information provided below actually addresses what you care most. If there is any suggestion on any additional topics you want to discuss or any ways in which we can improve our services, do not hesitate to let us know.

Our Key Values

Focus

We maintain a specific focus on international taxation and business law and global legal projects. We focus on international legal and tax planning and advice for clients engaged in international activities or facing cross border legal issues and problems, with particular emphasis on cross border mergers and acquisitions. U.S.-Italy cross border taxation is one of our niche practices. Thanks to our international head office in New York and our constant contacts with the U.S. legal and tax academia and professional community, we have the opportunity to stay at the forefront in the field and can keep our clients current with the latest developments in the areas of international taxation and business law.

Organization and Team

With headquarters in New York and Los Angeles and EU offices in Italy (Genoa and Milan), we combine local knowledge with international profile. We can meet with our international clients in New York minimizing traveling costs and inconveniences and we work on an extended office-hour basis reducing time differential problems. We can co-ordinate our work on multi-practice and multi-jurisdiction projects through a network of legal and tax practitioners around the globe and provide client-tailored and sophisticated services through a flexible, progressive and cost-effective organization.

Quality Control and Increasing-Productivity Processes

We employ a built-in quality-control system to constantly evaluate and improve our performance and conduct evaluation sessions periodically or after major projects are completed, in order to identify specific areas upon which we can improve our performance. We also use a knowledge-management system that takes advantage of all the intellectual capital developed by the firm and share the benefits of such system with clients.

Technology Platform

We have purposefully designed a cutting edge professional service platform serving both our international tax practice and our global business practice. We deploy a flat operational structure in order to avoid burdening our clientele with unnecessary overhead costs and elaborate office space through the deployment of powerful, secure digital and web based platforms and applications which tie our lawyers based in different locales tightly together. This structure translates into our clientele first-class, value-added international legal and tax services.

Listening

We believe that a thorough understanding of our client’s business is essential to provide good legal services. The more we know about our client the more valuable we can be to the relationship. This is true in general and especially in the area of international taxation, where the tax ramifications of a transaction are wide and go far beyond the limited scope and contingent time of the deal viewed in isolation, and we must look beyond its short-term effects and understand its wider and longer-term impact on the client’s business. For this purpose, we maintain at our expense a specific knowledge in the client’s industry, make sure that we understand the client’s corporate or business structure and organization and the style of its legal staff, ask questions (not only about the immediate legal issues that bring the client to us, but about the client’s business in general) and listen to the answers. We also make it a point to understand exactly what the client expects from us to avoid over-servicing and more properly address its actual needs.

Communicating

Like listening, communicating is fundamental to ensure that a relationship is productive. We make ourselves available all the time, we return calls and reply to e-mails promptly and are there when needed. We try to anticipate problems based upon our knowledge of the client and its legal staff, let in-house lawyers know when they should be alert to any particular issue and make communicating with them as painless as possible. We meet with international clients at our head office in New York whenever required on a regular basis without time constraints or additional costs.

Billing

We make sure we understand clients’ needs in the billing area and our bills deliver the information required in a useful form. We know that corporate clients need budgets, predictability, and prompt rendering of bills. Therefore, we take care that we issue bills that are accurate, on time and based on budgets previously discussed with clients, and we can use task codes, electronic bills and electronic payments to remove any inconvenience and annoyance factor generated by incoherent bills received long after the reserves for matters have been closed.

Staffing

We take personal responsibility of any client’s matter and handle it individually so that we can provide highly flexible, personalized, efficient and client-tailored services. If associated lawyers are brought in on a matter, they meet with clients to make sure a good rapport can be developed. If support lawyers are working on a matter, we make sure they stay through the duration and no replacement is made without discussion and prior approval from the client. In case of replacement, the new support lawyer is properly brought up to date with the matter, at no cost for the client for any learning curve factor or preparatory study of the case.

Fees

We are flexible in our fee arrangements with our clients. Our approach is flexibility and clarity up front. Whether the basis for billing is an hourly fee rate, flat fee, scaled fee or some other method, we agree with clients upon the fee method as well as on costs at the outset of any retention. Certain services like reviewing files, training, secretarial service and preparing budgets and bills are deemed to be included in the normal rate and are never charged separately. We agree on fixed fees for specific projects or flat fees for certain services to make budgeting for our clients easier and to avoid the hassling of monthly billing.

NEW YORK

45 Rockfeller Plz, Suite 2000
New York, NY 10111 (USA)
newyork@mqrassociati.com

BEVERLY HILLS

9595 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 900
Beverly Hills, CA 90212 (USA)
beverlyhills@mqrassociati.com

MIAMI

999 Brickell Ave, Suite 1002
Miami, FL 33131 (USA)
miami@mqrassociati.com

MILANO

Corso Vercelli, 11
20144 Milan (Italy)
milan@mqrassociati.com

GENOVA

Via Brigata Liguria, 1/12A
16121 Genoa (Italy)
genoa@mqrassociati.com

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