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On May 29 the second Scientific Committee was held in Rome with a focus on “Italy and its digital security network”.

Eighth edition of the award dedicated to energy innovation and the sustainable use of energy.

504 Italian companies are currently registered with the Chamber of Commerce as innovative SMEs. But they could be more.

Among the risks companies have to manage, few are as critical and so poorly understood as the risk of cyber-attacks.

Bernoni Grant Thornton provided legal assistance to M.Torres for the acquisition of Universal Tissue Technology.

Cybersecurity is a very current topic . No organization, large or small, can be considered immune from the possibility of attacks. It is therefore necessary to become aware of this phenomenon and to put in place the infrastructure and procedures that minimize and, if possible, avoid these risks knowing fully well that any policy must be monitored and updated to adapt to the risks that constantly evolve and change.

Eugenio De Chiara, Manager at Bernoni Grant Thornton, contributed to a volume on corporate welfare, smart businesses and well-being at work authored by Prof. Luca Pesenti of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. In particular, De Chiara wrote a chapter dedicated to tax aspects of corporate welfare, in the light of the amendments introduced by Law n. 208/2015.

Since the beginning of his activity in the ‘60s, Giuseppe Bernoni Since the beginning of his activity, he has always worked industriously and demonstrated that what had been started as an intuition completely against the mainstream in those days could become the key for success. The professional career of Mr. Bernoni has its roots in the awareness that any profession related to the legal and economic environment implies a complexity that does not allow people to work alone.

The second edition of the book on associated professional firms “Professionisti & Studi, associarsi per competere”, written by Giuseppe Bernoni, founder and Managing Partner of Bernoni Grant Thornton is now available in bookshops and online. The book analyses the changes professional firms need to introduce in order to adapt to the ever-changing scenario and better address new companies’ needs, from the transition from single professional firms to associated firms, to the provision of innovative services.

The budget bill for 2017, within the “Industry 4.0” strategy, will renew those provisions allowing “super-amortization”, and introduce “hyper-amortisation” for some specific capital goods, in order to incentivize the technological update of Italian businesses, their competition on domestic and international market and, more generally, economic recovery.

To successfully implement the changes needed, a change in the profile of bank employees is also needed. Besides the technological innovations there are a series of regulatory innovations. Control and compliance functions are increasingly important, but the organisational challenge is the most difficult as it will also imply staff layoffs.