Approach and ethics

The practice complies with, and respects rigorously, all rules and codes of professional ethics, taking on all due responsibility towards its clients.

Legal advice and counsel

Our activity does not revolve around notarial authentications only, but it is also concerned with the analysis and study of the case in point as it may be, the review of the law, jurisprudence and customs, identifying the best solutions applicable to the case, drafting of deeds and contracts, and the consideration of tax aspects. We consider ourselves to be skilled jurists, scholars and experts of law, especially with regards to the matters we deal with more frequently.
Each case is assessed with respect to the existing law, also tax law, and we point out the advantages and disadvantages, as well as the consequences, of all the possible options. All this with particular attention to elements of taxation, with the foremost goal of providing the client with the best price/quality ratio. In order to reach this goal, we keep professionally updated on a really daily basis, through the study of journals, data and reviews, as well as confronting ourselves with other professionals.

Technologies

Our practice makes use of all modern IT and electronic technologies, of which we have wide competence (electronic deposit of documents, follow up of clients' matters by email, connection with public registers, videoconferences, etc.).
This enables us to be more efficient, to offer greater security and to get back to our clients in the least possible time.
During execution of deeds, we make use of electronic means, like video projection of the notarial act, maps and documents, to raise our clients' level of information, involvement and awereness.
As a rule, we usually deliver to our clients, through the use of electronic mail, an electronic copy of the notarial acts within the next working day from execution and when required, we also deliver it immediately.
We are experts in the creation and treatment of IT documents with full legal validity, making use of digital signatures and/or time stamp.

Structure of our practice

Our practice is organised in such a way to enable us to deal and carry out first handedly, in a responsible and indipendent manner, all activities and duties relating to the notarial function, as well as analysing and giving legal counsel more generally. Our members of staff, aside from the notary, comprise experts of office management and experts of law, also with training and experience abroad.
We perform all operations ourselves, from a preliminary stage (meetings with the parties, searches, etc.), to the stage of final fulfillments deriving from execution (fiscal registration, land registries, company register, etc.), always running our practice in complete compliance with rules and codes of conduct.
We do not make use of external facilities in order to arrange fulfillments. In fact, we believe that this type of commissioning represents a breach of professional diligence, a lowering of standards, a loss of control, a strong influence and, ultimately, a grave risk to clients.
Therefore, all our operations are held at our offices, under our direct control and consequently our direct responsibility. Where necessary and where deemed fit, we may, for specific requirements, make use of external professionals or trusted professionals, like planning technicians, or foreign law specialists for cases with international elements.

Efficiency and promptness

Our structure, together with the wide use of IT instruments, enable us to run our practice with great promptness and rapidity.
We can arrange appointments in a short time, with the security that they will be met with punctuality; we deliver copies of notarial acts and documents immediately, when it is so requested; we carry out all fulfillments deriving from an act in the course of a few days thereafter or immediately after conclusion in urgent cases when they are so marked.
Efficiency and promptness are a further security for our clients, which enables them to obtain specific results and reduce the risks that may be inherent to their case.
If more time is apparently needed, it happens in more complex situations, when it is deemed necessary to carry out all checks as a precaution and as security, to protect our client, rather than to conclude in a speedy and superficial way.

Documents and relations with public administration

We offer ourselves as a point of contact with the italian public administration, specifically with public registers (company register, land registry, civil state registry, etc.) and court offices where necessary.
We follow the matter in public registers up to its complete clearance (e.g. registration with company register, annotations in land registers, etc.), checking the effective operation of the offices, urgeing them where necessary, providing supplement documentation where requested, and generally comunicating with them directly in order not to burden the client with any annoyances.
The practice will never request unnecessary documents from the client, and, where possible, we will endavour to obtain the necessary documents directly ourselves.

Direct rappour with client

Despite the trend to create big offices, we intend to maintain a small and "family" dimension, which enables us to establish a direct rappour and a personal contact with the client. We believe, in fact, that the client has the right to comunicate directly also with the highest specialist and to be able to express his needs and requests.
We aim to proudly distinguish ourselves from offices where the senior professional is almost unreachable to a client. In situations where our notary makes use of his support staff, the latter is always under the direct supervision and direction of the former, and the client always has the opportunity to talk directly to the notary himself. The notary is always available for direct consultation with the parties to interpret (investigate) their intention, asking questions, reviewing documents, researching the history, with the aim of providing the best advice (also in tax matters) and suggest the best legal solution to obtain the objective that the parties put forward.
The rappour with the notary in fact, starts prior to the execution of the act.
With this in mind, abiding with the law, the notary will always be present when reading an act, in the presence of the parties and when signing, even for acts of minor importance.
When reading, in fact, the parties may ask all necessary clarifications and explanations regarding the content of the act itself and propose potential changes to the notary.

Independence, impartiality and autonomy

As a protection of our independence, impartiality and autonomy, our office is not bound by privileged business relationships with banks, companies, estate or credit agents, and we do not ackowledge any type of commission to brokers or mediators. We believe, in fact, that these types of relations may represent serious influences, such as to undermine credibility of professionals and public officials.
We firmly believe that a notary has the duty to behave with impartiality and independently, with full abidance with the law, and without favoring the interests of one party rather than the other. A notary has to be trusted by all parties, and has the duty of care and duty to inform all parties to a transaction, finding a balanced solution, even if he is paid only by one of the parties.
Unlike a lawyer, a notary's duty is not limited to his client, he watches over the equity of the contracts in order to find the right balance between the parties and especially to guarantee that the act is in compliance with the law. From this point of view, it is therefore easy to see how a notary is more similar to an impartial judge, rather than a lawyer. We believe, in fact, in the distinction of professional functions and we have no intention of taking up the role a lawyer or an accountant.

Legal checks and preliminary analysis

The running of our practice is always based on complete abidance with the law. Notarial acts, contracts and incorporation documents are drafted and verified so that they comply, with the widest surety, to existing norms of law, and are worded so that they may prevent any possible future lawsuits. During initial legal counsel, existing rules of law will be taken into account, together with all similar cases and interpretations. The ability, skill and experience of the notary enable him to examine any critical points and discuss problems and obstacles which would otherwise escape the attention of other professionals with a different background or preparation.
Therefore, when the proposed transaction is not possible to undertake, because of legality or because it lacks the minimum conditions (e.g. prohibition to alienate property, property built against planning authority, subjects unable to express their will or of unsound mind, etc.), we are forced to deny our services. Refusal to undertake the job, in such cases, is only a further and fundamental guarantee to the client, who otherwise would not obtain his proposed intent, for example when a buyer wants to buy a property with all guarantees against third parties.
Before conclusion of the act, we will carry out all necessary checks, as a protection to our client. E.g. companies checks, land registry checks, etc. We take all responsibility of obtaining the result that the client intends and expects (e.g. purchase of a property). For this reason, we suggest clients to make contact with the notary from the very first instance, both to receive the best advice and to be able to identify any possible obstacles or problems that may occur: e.g. prior to signing a proposal of purchase, prior to accepting an incorporation document, etc.

Transparency and security

Due to the fact that we carry out all the activity of our practice in our offices, we are able to maintain direct control over our jobs, providing to the client with all possible information and guaranteeing the satisfactory fulfillment of the business relationship. We send all receipts of tax and registration payments at registers and public entities to all our corporate clients, and to private individuals who make such request; money received in view of revenue and tax payments is held on a special dedicated and separated account; we make the necessary payments as soon as possible.
Copies of notarial acts are available to whoever makes the request. All this with due respect and protecting client-notary professional privilege and privacy law.
As well as being personally responsible, the notary has the basic professional insurance of the Italian notariat, and has also supplemented it with an additional professional insurance.
In over ten years of activity (and over 40 years of family practice) we can proudly declare that we have never been subject to any disciplinary proceedings, nor have ever caused direct or indirect loss or damage of any type.

Fees

We are available to our clients for any explanations regarding our fees, providing a clear distinction between expenses, our fees and VAT, and if requested we can provide a detailed breakdown of costs.
With regards to our fees, we normally apply the notarial fees in existence, which we believe can guarantee the quality of our services.
We could potentially manage our practice so that costs be reduced and therefore reducing our fees, however, we believe that in the long run this would be against our clients' interests, and therefore contrary to our professional code of conduct. This is because it is clear, despite what it seems, that reducing costs means putting into practice typical behaviours and attitudes which are not only contrary to the law, but may seriously damage clients' interests (lack of personal rappour with the client, commissioning external structures outside direct control of the notary, agreements with brokers and mediators, superficially carrying out preliminary checks and superficial study of the case).