Giammarco CottaniDr Giammarco Cottani, LLM, is partner at L&P- Ludovici Piccone & Partners, Italian tax law firm. He coordinates the transfer pricing practice, with regards to both prevention and resolution of domestic and international disputes and the assistnce in complex audits of large multinational enterprise groups. Until August 2015, he acted as Advisor on lnternational Tax to the Central Assessment Director of ltaly Revenue Agency. In this role, he focused on international tax issues related to large multinational groups and SMEs, with a specific focus on transfer pricing issues. He was one of the delegates far ltaly involved in the OECD BEPS project. Before joining the Agency, he worked as a Transfer Pricing Advisor in the Tax Treaty and Transfer Pricing Unit of the OECD, where he was involved in the introduction of the new Chapter IX of the OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines concerning business restructurings. Giammarco has served as a Member of the Sub-Committee Group of the United Nations in charge of the Draft of the Practical Manual on Transfer Pricing for Developing Countries and he has been the Delegate for ltaly on a number of OECD Working Parties. Giammarco is a member of the faculty of the International Tax Center of the University of Leiden far transfer pricing. He was the National Reporter for Italy during the 2011 IFA Congress on the topic of cross-border business restructurings. He regularly lectures in postgraduate courses in international taxation (with a specific focus on transfer pricing) both in Europe and the Americas. He is currently involved in a number of technical assistance projects for tax administrations in several LATAM countries on behalf of international and regional organizations. He received his degree in Law from LUISS Rome University in 2003, an LLM in European and International Taxation from the European Tax College (Tilburg and Leuven) in 2005, and a PhD in Corporate Taxation from LUISS Rome University in 2009. Read More Read Less