People

Flavio Notari Partner

Milan; Rome

Flavio is an Italian certified public accountant and statutory auditor (“Commercialista”) qualified and registered with the Rome Register of Italian certified accountants and auditors (“Ordine dei Dottori Commercialisti and Registro dei Revisori Legali”) who has gained considerable experience working in well-established law firms both in the United States and also in Italy in the field of domestic and international taxation.

Flavio regularly assist clients in their start-up, scale-up, venture capital deals, internationalization processes, as well as for the taxation issues of extraordinary operations.

He has significant experience assisting mainly tech companies and multinational industrial groups with respect to tax issues.

Tax advisor in business accelerators, advisor for VC funds as well as for tech start-ups, he follows with great attention the paths of the Italian entrepreneurial innovation, promoting competitiveness and spreading the culture of risk.

Flavio is a regular lecturer in Financial Accounting at John Cabot University.

Co-Founder of BAIA Italia – Business Association Italy America, he contributes to the definition of the vision and strategy of the association.

Flavio is also a Member of the AIAF – Associazione Italiana degli Analisti e Consulenti Finanziari, study group on innovative startups.

He is author of several publications relating to taxation and regularly speaker in conferences and workshops.

*Not an admitted lawyer

Yvonne Nyborg Analyst

San Francisco

Yvonne T. Nyborg is an Employee Benefits Analyst with 28 years of experience providing sophisticated legal services to large clients with multiple complex tax-qualified retirement plans.  As an Employee Benefits Analyst, she provides high level legal services at reduced rates. 

She focuses on qualified retirement plan design and compliance, including company acquisitions and dispositions, plan mergers and spinouts, large controlled group nondiscrimination testing analysis, plan drafting and preparation of employee communications and enrollment materials.  Yvonne has extensive experience in defined benefit plan compliance issues, and in terminations of large defined benefit plans in accordance with Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation requirements.  She is also an authority on obtaining favorable determination letters from the Internal Revenue Service approving the tax-qualified status of various types of retirement plans, and in responding to Internal Revenue Service and Department of Labor plan audits.  In addition, Yvonne is highly proficient in answering day-to-day administration issues and in assisting attorneys with the research of legal issues impacting all types of employee benefit plans.

Yvonne has completed courses I-III, VI, VIII, IX, Certified Employee Benefit Specialist Program, 1987-1993, and holds a Certificate from the Institute for Employee Benefits Training, 1985.  She received her B.A. degree from the State University of New York at Albany in 1984.