Over 100 experts are ready to advise and guide you in the main industrial sectors, offering a multidisciplinary, customised, comprehensive and integrated consultancy and advisory service. We build solid partnerships with our clients, based on clear goals, shared values and process optimisation.
The Firm and our partnerships
Our promise. Your goal, our project.
Innovation
Professionalism
Trust
Teamwork
Our approach
Customised consulting and innovation come together to ensure maximum efficiency of administrative and accounting processes, in line with the best market practices.
Our clients
Over 1,500 clients depend on a dedicated professional and assistance tailored to their specific needs.
We prefer targeted and informed consulting to impersonal standardised processes. This makes us the ideal local partner for international groups and mid-sized enterprises seeking comprehensive and accurate fiscal, tax and legal advice.
Mid-market companies and investment funds
- Ordinary and ongoing and specialised tax consulting
- Legal and corporate consulting
- Financial statements, audit and control
- Reorganisations, extraordinary transactions and M&A
- Administrative and accounting services
- Payroll operations
Companies that look to the Italian market
- Ordinary and ongoing and specialised tax consulting
- Legal and corporate consulting
- Financial statements, audit and control
- Reorganisations, extraordinary transactions and M&A
- Administrative and accounting services
- Cash management
- Payroll operations
- Tax and social security for Foreign Employers
Family/Private Equity
- Ordinary and ongoing and specialised tax consulting
- Legal and corporate consulting
- Valutations of companies and shareholdings
- Purchase and sale of shares in limited companies
- Assistance with the transfer of family assets
- Real estate investments
- Assistance for start-ups and venture capital funds
Our people
We understand the complexity of the subject and have the capacity and tools to simplify it.
The approach of our professionals, the ethics of ECOVIS STLex and the customisation of our services form the basis of solid and lasting relationships: clients can depend on a dedicated expert who clearly understands their goals and needs, and translates them into tangible solutions.
We believe in excellence and in people’s personal and professional development, and we cultivate the value of day-to-day operational support, always by the side of our clients.
A close-knit, technologically advanced, enthusiastic and determined team, ready to take on the many challenges of our profession and face them with a winning spirit.
Our offices
Milan, Turin and Genoa: a network to support Italian and foreign businesses that guarantees reliability and support throughout the country.
Milan
Spacious areas dedicated to reception and joint work with clients, ideal for closings and meetings with numerous participants, spread over a large area on a single floor, are the hallmarks of this prestigious office, the headquarter of our firm and the main seat of our legal activity. The more than 45 people working there, including professionals, specialists and staff, have gained considerable experience and affinity in teamwork, particularly for the financial sector, M&A transactions, international clients, innovative and high-tech companies.
Genoa
The historical office in Genoa in Piazza della Vittoria enjoys a beautiful view over the whole city from the meeting rooms on the 7th floor. Over 45 people work there to offer specialised services such as payroll, bonuses and benefits, international VAT consulting, transfer pricing in specialised sectors such as shipping, brokerage and insurance, chemicals, tourism, shipping and trade.
Turin
Between Porta Susa and Porta Nuova, the Turin office is staffed by 15 people and two local partnerships with Studio Motta and Studio Peretti. Specialisations range from the automotive to component sectors, from wine to IT, from high tech to M&A and advisory, and the outsourcing of administrative, accounting and payroll services.
Our story
We have been operating for over 20 years, pursuing goals of professional excellence.
2024
Let's get on board in the Fintech world!
We have become Professional Partner of Fintech District, Italy's leading fintech ecosystem, which connects fintech companies with industry stakeholders to drive innovation and foster growth. It is a hub for networking, collaboration and access to customised services.
2024
AmCham New Members
The firm is a member of the American Chamber of Commerce in Italy, an institution whose purpose is to develop and foster economic and cultural relations between the United States of America and Italy, and to promote and protect the interests of its members in business between the two countries.
2024
Partnership with AHK Italy - German-Italian Chamber of Commerce
ECOVIS STLex joins AHK Italia - Italian-German Chamber of Commerce, a historical institution that has been working since 1921 to foster ever closer ties between the Italian Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany by promoting institutional, commercial and economic relations.
2022
The new partners
ECOVIS STLex kicks off a process of enhancing the value of its associates by appointing eleven new Income Partners who have been working at the firm for many years and specialise in various fields. This brings the number of partners in the firm to twenty-three, divided between the three offices in Milan, Genoa and Turin, and active in the following sectors: Tax, Legal, Advisory, M&A, Corporate, Accounting and Payroll.
2020
All together at last, in the new premises in Milan
ECOVIS STLex relocates its Milan offices to the prestigious, ultra-modern headquarters in Via della Chiusa, bringing together and integrating all legal, tax, accounting and auditing expertise.
2020
Partnership in legal consultancy in Milan
After years of knowledge, esteem and cooperation, ECOVIS STLex strengthens its skills and organisation by entering into a partnership with Studio de Castiglione, Zanchi e Associati: evolution and continuation of Studio Moro Visconti de Castiglione Guaineri e Associati, recognised as one of the most important law firms in the criminal sector and providing assistance to its clients, both Italian and foreign individuals and companies, in both the judicial and consulting sectors.
2018
Partnership in Turin
ECOVIS STLex continues its growth both through internal lines and via alliances and partnerships with other specialised firms and professionals. The sharing of offices and the creation of a partnership were accomplished with Studio Motta / EDM in Turin.
2017
Over 100 experts
The firm grows to a significant size on the national scene: the team of experts, employees and other staff exceeds the threshold of one hundred people, coordinated by twelve partner lawyers and accountants
2013
The journey continues along international routes – Entry into ECOVIS®
The Firm becomes the exclusive partner for Italy of the ECOVIS® International network of professionals, tax and legal advisors and changes its name to ECOVIS STLex - Studio Legale Tributario. ECOVIS is a leading global consulting network originating in continental Europe. A combination of locally customised advice with the general expertise of an international, interdisciplinary network of professionals is what gives ECOVIS its strength.
2009
Integrated consulting
After years of intense and profitable collaboration in the historical premises in Milan, in Via Santa Radegonda, the merger between STS and the ILALex law firm is finalised. The new multidisciplinary organisation updates its name to “STLex - Studio Legale Tributario”.
2000
Territorial development continues in Turin
The firm opens a new office in Turin and strengthens its presence in the north-west of Italy.
1991
The Firm sets sail for Milan
STS opens its first office in Milan: initially in Corso Europa and then, until 1999, in alliance with the firm of lawyers Lega Colucci Albertazzi (later merged into Freshfields) in Via dei Giardini.
Ecovis International
There is a “place” where individual ideas and projects ignite engines of multidisciplinary expertise and international experience. A “place” where companies of all sizes find dedicated paths, solutions and answers.
This place is ECOVIS INTERNATIONAL, a large, globally active, legal and tax consultancy network, present with more than 9,300 professionals and collaborators in over 80 countries. ECOVIS STLex has been the exclusive licensee for Italy of the professional international network ECOVIS ® since 2013.
The significant experience gained in assisting foreign-controlled resident companies belonging to solid foreign groups operating in a wide range of sectors allows us to guarantee guidance in all internationalisation projects for your company.
The partnerships
ECOVIS STLex is at the centre of a dynamic and growing ecosystem of numerous collaborations and partnerships. We capitalise on existing relationships within the network and create new ones to increase our size, develop and improve areas of expertise and implement innovative and technological processes.
Cedis S.r.l.
The Firm has established a partnership with Cedis S.r.L., an employment consultancy specialising in personnel administration and contractual management of employment relationships.
Studio De Castiglione Ingraffia Zanchi e Associati
The Firm has entered into partnership with De Castiglione Ingraffia Zanchi e Associati in order to offer its clients the fullest support, also with reference to issues of criminal law concerning the economy and business.
AHK Italy - German-Italian Chamber of Commerce
The firm has initiated a partnership with AHK Italy – The Italian-German Chamber of Commerce, an institution dedicated to fostering increasingly close ties between the Italian Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany, through the promotion of institutional, commercial, and economic relations.
AmCham - American Chamber of Commerce in Italy
The firm entered into a partnership by associating with AmCham, an institution whose purpose is to develop and foster economic and cultural relations between the United States of America and Italy and to promote and protect the interests of its associates in business between the two countries.
Fintech District
The firm has become Professional Partner of Fintech District, Italy's leading fintech ecosystem, which connects fintech companies with industry stakeholders to drive innovation and foster growth.
Technological partnerships
Our creativity, perfected by innovative digital technology, guarantees effective, fast and secure data management.
