Bernardo Danesi is a transfer pricing and energy and natural resources economist with 10 years of experience. He advises firms, investors, and public bodies on regulatory economics, transfer pricing, and valuation across a variety of industries, including the energy, utilities, infrastructure, and financial services sectors. Mr. Danesi combines advisory and litigation expertise in the context of international tax and economic regulation.
Within the energy and natural resources space, Mr. Danesi’s experience spans market design assessments, regulatory due diligence processes, tariff and bill modeling, and renewable generation subsidies. He has also designed and assessed the intercompany transactions of various multinational enterprises in the energy sector, including oil and gas majors, retail suppliers, and manufacturers of solar panels.
Mr. Danesi’s transfer pricing and valuation practice covers a variety of topics including the design of internal pricing systems based on in-depth value chain and functional analyses. In addition to energy focus, he has gained significant experience on financial sector transactions, including intercompany financing, hedging arrangements, guarantee arrangements, and factoring fees as well as a large variety of intercompany transactions that are common in the asset management and private equity industries. He has supported taxpayers in preparing responses to audits defending against disputes.
Mr. Danesi’s contributions extend to other regulatory areas such as state aid, in which he worked on the valuation of hybrid funding instruments, and the upcoming RIS regulations that are being discussed by EU institutions.
Mr. Danesi has contributed three chapters to Applying the Arm’s Length Principle to Intra Group Financial Transactions (Wolters Kluwer, 2023) and coauthored work on loan pricing (2021).