Alessandro Dagnino, a Supreme Court lawyer and lecturer in corporate and third-sector tax law at LUMSA University, is a founding partner, managing partner, and head of the tax and public finance sector at LEXIA Lawyers.
A distinguished professional in the field of tax litigation, Dagnino has represented significant cases before various Italian Tax Justice Courts, the Supreme Court – Tax Section, as well as before the Joint Sections of the Supreme Court and the Constitutional Court. He actively provides consultancy and represents and defends Italian companies, multinational groups, financial institutions, and private clients in tax matters.
He also represents and defends many well-known figures from the political and institutional world and public managers in cases of public finance damage before the Court of Auditors.
Dagnino has developed specific expertise in advising and defending public entities, including local authorities, on tax and public finance matters (for instance, over the years, and under governments of different political directions, he has served as a consultant to the finance and tax department and the General Accounting Office of the Sicilian Region on the reorganization of affiliated companies, legal consultant to the presidency of the Sicilian Regional Assembly, defender of municipalities in complex tax disputes and public finance matters, expert for mayors, and consultant in project financing operations carried out by public entities).
For years, he has also been a key reference for some of the main category associations (traders, industrialists, cooperatives, artisans, consumers, labor unions), successfully handling, among others, disputes in tax law and public finance, including those of media interest.
Before the foundation of LEXIA, in 2001, Prof. Dagnino established Dagnino Law Firm, a professional reality that immediately became a member of the British Chamber of Commerce for Italy, an organization within which Lawyer Dagnino still serves as the Honorary Regional Secretary for Sicily.
He is an active and frequent speaker at conferences, seminars, and lectures on tax law.