Vania Petrella is a partner of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, resident in the Rome office.
She joined the firm in January 1998 and has been resident in the Rome office since September 1999.
Prior to that, she was resident in the Brussels and New York offices.
Ms. Petrella’s practice focuses mainly on Italian and international tax issues relating to capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, financial products and domestic and cross-border transactions with respect to which she advises a number of Italian and international clients, including multinational firms and financial institutions.
She also regularly advises on the tax implications of holding structures, reorganizations, joint ventures, partnerships, debt restructurings and employee incentive plans.
Ms. Petrella assists a number of U.S.-based and other non-Italian financial institutions in respect of financial products or transactions that they develop for their clients in Italy.
In addition, she regularly advises U.S. investment banks in connection with their own tax issues in Italy, including their deferred compensation arrangements.
Ms. Petrella graduated with honors from the University of Naples Federico II in 1993, and collaborated with Professor Enrico Nuzzo until September 1996.
She obtained an LL.M. degree with Specialization in Tax Law at the University of London in 1997, and in 1999 completed a Ph.D. program in Italian and EU Tax Law at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Naples Federico II.
She is widely published on topics relating to Italian and international tax law and teaches a course on these topics at the University of Naples Federico II.
She also regularly lectures at various other institutions, including the University of Rome La Sapienza and LUISS.
Ms. Petrella has been a member of the Naples Bar since 1997.
She is a native Italian speaker, is fluent in English and proficient in French.