Aldo Castoldi

Aldo Castoldi is a partner of Studio Tributario e Societario, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu's Italian member firm and the national leader of the Italian transfer pricing practice since 2008. He has about 20 years of international tax experience, and he has served a wide range of foreign-owned multinationals, as well as Italian concerns. Since the establishment of Deloitte's Italian transfer pricing service line in 1999, Mr. Castoldi has been in charge of all major transfer pricing projects carried out by Deloitte in Italy. He has extensive experience with transfer pricing and international tax issues and has worked for a number of Italian, European, Japanese and U.S. multinationals in a wide range of industries, including the chemical, consumer goods, software, pharmaceutical, media and communications and electronics industries. He has gained significant experience both in performing and coordinating comprehensive transfer pricing studies, tax planning, documentation, and defence projects, and in providing consultancy to multinationals in the context of business model optimization and restructuring projects. He negotiated both Italian first unilateral and first multilateral APA, and supervised the filing of the first application for activating an EU Arbitration Convention to cancel double taxation generated by an Italian tax assessment. Mr. Castoldi has a University Degree in Economics and a Master's Degree in Tax Law. He is a Member, Chartered Accountants (Dottore Commercialista) Association in Italy, and an Italian Chartered Auditor. He is author and co-author of articles published on specialized magazines and newspapers and is a speaker at meetings and events.