Nicola Saccardo

Partner at Charles Russell Speechlys

Speaker

Nicola is admitted to practise in Italy as a lawyer and as a chartered accountant and in England and Wales as a solicitor. His areas of expertise is Italian tax law, with a focus on taxation of trusts, estates and HNWIs; relocation of HNWIs; estate tax planning; and international and EU tax law. He is the Chair of the Tax Committee of the International Academy of Estate and Trust Law, a member of the International Estate Planning Committee of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, the former Chair of the International Client Global SIG Steering Committee of STEP and a member of the Cross-Border Estates Global SIG Steering Committee of STEP. He is the editor of the International Family Offices Journal, the editor of the book Global Mobility of Ultra-High-Net-Worth Individuals and the co-editor of the book Family Offices (all published by Globe Law & Business Limited and STEP). Additionally, he is the editor of the book Tax Implications of Brexit and the co-editor of the book International Succession Laws (both published by Bloomsbury).

He is ranked as leading expert in several legal directories, including Chambers High Net Worth, Legal Week Private Clients Global Elite, Citywealth Leaders list, Who’s Who Legal: Private Client and Who’s Who Legal: Thought Leaders - Global Elite in the Private Client section. In 2023 he won the 2023 Chambers HNW awards as Foreign Jurisdiction Expert and was listed in the Eprivateclient 50 Most Influential. Chambers HNW has described him as "one of the key players in this area in terms of cross-border situations", "extremely competent with high technical skills. He is very pragmatic and has a great knowledge of tax issues”, "a great international tax lawyer. … technically superb", “able to pull together the tax and succession advice seamlessly, which was just phenomenal“, “the leading Italy private clients lawyer”, “has an international perspective which is unrivalled”, “is a very creative thinker, he thinks strategically and is open to all ideas” and “is like a walking encyclopaedia of cross-border Italian-UK law”.