Marco Q. Rossi - Founding and Managing Partner - International Tax Attorney, International Counsel, Italy-U.S. Counsel
Marco Q. Rossi is the founding partner of the Firm. He specializes in U.S.-Italy cross-border matters and legal and tax advice on U.S. and Italian international transactions.
He earned an International Tax LL.M. from New York University School of Law in 2002, graduated cum laude from the University of Genoa (Italy) School of Law in 1990 and is admitted as attorney and counselor-at law in Italy and U.S. (New York).
Mr. Rossi started practicing law in Italy in the early 1990s, when he worked for a local law firm assisting American and foreign clients and acting as Italian correspondent for U.S. and foreign law firms on international matters. He set up his own practice in Italy 1998 and established its U.S. office in Milan and New York as Marco Q. Rossi & Associati in 2005. Later the firm added offices in Miami and Los Angeles and is at the forefront on U.S. and Italian international tax and legal advice.
Mark V. Santo - Of Counsel, Cross Border Investment and M&A - International Counsel, International Mergers and Acquisitions, Joint Ventures - Italy-U.S.
Mark V. Santo, founder of MVS Counsel, is an accomplished senior executive with extensive international business, law, finance and managerial experience. Mark began his international legal career following his graduation from Georgetown University Law Center with a post graduate law degree in International and Comparative Law. Over a twenty year career in the international business field, and travelling the world many times over, Mark has acquired an extensive network of international associates and colleagues at the highest levels of law, business, academia, and world affairs..
Elettra Menarini - Associated Counsel, West Coast and New York
Elettra Menarini was born and raised in Bologna, Italy. She graduated from the Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna receiving her Italian law degree (Laurea in Giurisprudenza) in 1999. Ms. Menarini obtained a Certificate in Intellectual Property law from the University of California San Diego in June 2004, a Diploma in Taxation from the University of San Diego School of Law in 2007 and an LLM in International Taxation at the University of New York in May 2010. Ms. Menarini is admitted to practice law in Italy and in California.
Patricia Tarabelsi - Associated Counsel, Miami
Patricia Tarabelsi is from Boston, Massachusetts and holds dual citizenship with the U.S. and Italy. She is a graduate of Suffolk Law School in Boston and also studied at the Brussels School of International Studies where she earned an LL.M. degree in International Law from the University of Kent Law School (U.K.). For her dissertation, she interned at the United Nations in Vienna, Austria where she conducted research and worked with top leaders of the organization. In Brussels, Ms. Tarabelsi also worked at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young on a European Commission Study on accessibility and functions of Italian government websites to the public.
