RIVOLTA AND CORTESI

Alfonso Rivolta is a Director at UBS AG Switzerland, where he leads the Italy Clients & Products Tax Services team. He assists high-net-worth individual clients in their wealth planning needs and the bank in engineering financial instruments. Before joining UBS, he worked at Bonelli Erede Pappalardo (Milan) and at Pirola Pennuto Zei (Milan), where he focused on international and EC taxation, corporate reorganizations, international and domestic tax planning for groups and individuals, trusts and corporate taxation.

Mr Rivolta started teaching as a teaching assistant at the International Tax Center (ITC) Leiden in 2009 and has since 2010 lectured in the EU Tax Law and Individual Wealth and Tax Planning courses at the ITC, where he is at present Faculty Member and Course Coordinator of the Individual Wealth and Tax Planning course. Mr Rivolta is also a lecturer in Domestic and International Taxation at postgraduate courses and a speaker in conferences at leading institutions in Switzerland, the Netherlands, Italy and Singapore.

He is the author of articles on European and international taxation topics. Mr Rivolta is a Dottore Commercialista (Italian chartered tax adviser admitted before tax courts), Revisore Legale (Italian chartered auditor), member of the IFA and of the Swiss Bankers Association. He obtained a laurea magistrale with honours (combined BA and MSc) in Law and Business Administration and a post-graduate MSc in Corporate Tax Law at Bocconi University. Subsequently, he obtained an advanced LLM in International Tax Law at ITC Leiden (Hons., IBFD Award and Malcolm Gammie Award for best paper).

Mr Rivolta also graduated in Violin and Orchestral Conducting and conducted some concerts in Italy and Russia.