Curriculum

Professional title
Avvocato (attorney-at-law – registered in the Lawyers register of the Canton of Ticino) and Notaio (Notary Public – registered at the Notary Order of the Canton of Ticino)

Academic title
Lic. iur. (licensed in law) cum laude, Bern University, Canton of Bern, Switzerland, 1992.

Function
Owner.

Born
May 27th, 1964 in Locarno, origin of Lugano, Switzerland

Nationality
Swiss.

Languages
Italian (mother tongue), German, English, French, with basic language knowledge in Swedish (A2) and Russian (A2).

 

Areas of Practice
(about 30% of litigation)

Private Law
Inheritance Law also international, Probate, wills and trusts; Commercial and corporate Law; Property Law; Contract Law; Media and communication Law; Purchase Law; Donation Law; Art law; Torts and Insurance Law; Ethics and Professional Liability; New technologies; Debt Enforcement and Bankruptcy Law; Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgements; Private International Law, Administrations and Windings-up.

Notary
Services as notary public of Canton Ticino and law of legalizations; authentications of documents for international use, with Apostille based on the 1961 Hague Convention.

Administrative Law
General Administrative Law of the Confederation and of the Canton of Ticino; Taxation Law; Law of advocacy; Constitutional Law; European Convention on Human rights and fundamental freedoms; Immigration Law; Data Protection; Public international law; Transportation, inland navigation and Water law.

Criminal Law
Criminal Law and White-Collar Crime in criminal proceeding before the Swiss Federal and Cantonal Authorities; International Criminal Law; International mutual assistance in criminal matters; Fraud asset tracing and recovery; fight against Money Laundering; Police Law.

 

Education

1981-1985
High school (scientific) in Bellinzona and Locarno.

1985-1992
University of Bern, Canton of Bern, Switzerland, Lic. iur. (cum laude). Seminar work (translation) “The protection of sanitary data in transborder telecommunication of electronic data between Swiss public administration and Nations belonging to the European community with particular reference to the epidemics law” (1989); License work on (translation) “The relations between the law on real estate transfer gain tax and the Tax Law of Canton of Ticino with reference to the message of the Federal Council on the Harmonization of the direct taxes of the Canton and Municipalities, with particular reference to the cases of tax accumulation” (1989).

1996
Attorney-at-law Diploma of the Republic and Canton of Ticino, Switzerland, with habilitation to the exercise of the profession, and, since 2002 inscribed in the Register of the lawyers in the Canton of Ticino.

1998
Diploma of Public Notary of the Republic and Canton of Ticino, Switzerland.

 

Professional experiences

1992 – 1993
Clerk trainee at the District Court of the Jurisdiction of Locarno-Città and at the Public prosecutor office of the Canton of Ticino for the solicitor general Piergiorgio Mordasini.

1993 – 1995
Trainee lawyer at lawyer dr. Carlo Sganzini, Lugano.

1995 – 1996
Trainee lawyer at Law Firm Salvioni e Maccanetti, Locarno.

1996 – 2007
Attorney-at-law at Law Firm Salvioni e Maccanetti, Locarno.

1999 – 2003
Member of the council of the Canton of Ticino Bar association.

2003 – 2005
Deputy President of the Canton of Ticino Bar association.

2005 – 05.08.2007
President of the Canton of Ticino Bar association.

2007 –
Member of the Informatic (now digitalization) Commission of the Canton of Ticino Bar Association

2007 – 2017
Attorney-at-the Law Firm “Studio legale e notarile Salvioni e Salvioni”, Locarno.

2011 – 2019
Member of the Board of the Swiss Bar Association (SAV-FSA), Bern.

2014 –
Member of the Board of the “Lombardy and Ticino Notary’s committee”, Milan.

2017.08. –
Owner of the law and notary public firm Studio legale e notarile Niccolò Salvioni, in Locarno.

 

Political Activity and other:

2008 -2012
Municipal councilor of Locarno.

2012 -2015
Municipal councilor of Locarno.

2013 –
Deputy-president of the Association Espoverbano.ch, Locarno

2015 – 2020.11
Member of the town council of Locarno, responsible for Safety, Civil engineering, Water supply and City of energy.

2018.05 –
Deputy-president of CISA (associazione Conservatorio Internazionale di Scienze Audiovisive – Association International Conservatory of Audiovisual sciences), Palazzo del Cinema, Locarno.

2019.04 –

President of the Locarnese Society of Gymnastics (SFG Locarno), established in 1866, Locarno

2019.09 –

President of the Locarno – Milan – Venice association, Locarno

2021

Board member of the Eduard Bick Foundation, Gambarogno – Sant Abbondio

 

Writing and reports

1995
(translation) “Index of the Repertory of fatherland jurisprudence 1977-1989”, Edizioni Salvioni, Bellinzona (489 pag.).

1998
“International judicial assistance in civil matters, with particular reference to the Canton of Ticino – Short outline of some typical procedure problems”, Locarno (31 pag.).

1999
(translation) ”Penal Procedural Code of the Republic and Canton of Ticino, annotated with abstracts of the preparatory works of the lawmaker”, Edizioni Salvioni, (663 pag.).

2005
(translation) “Laws related to the advocacy and to the Canton of Ticino Bar association: draft of a short chronological trace”, Bollettino dell’Ordine degli avvocati del Cantone Ticino (BOA), No. 30., 2005, (pag. 2-10).

2006
(translation) “Who should control the Swiss Solicitor General?”, Anwaltsrevue, 3/2006, Helbling & Lichtenhahn, Basel, (pag. 114 – 122).

2006
(translation) “The Bar Association of Canton Ticino in the Swiss and European context”, “Ex. Art.”, Review of the Bar association of Busto Arsizio (I), pag. 29 – 38.

2006
“The Tariff of 1984 of the Bar Association of the Canton of Ticino, actual and future situation”, BOA No. 32, 2006, pag. 12 – 26.

2007
“Relation of the president for the year 2005 -2007 and on the activities of the Council on 2006 – Abrogation of the tariffs and application of the principles of the market to the profession – Public law corporation, coactivity and discipline – Some institutional reflections”, BOA No. 33, 2007 (pag. 2 – 6).

2010
“The executor of the will of Swiss law in the Canton of Ticino – practical examples”, minutes of the 15th information seminar, organized by the Lombardy and Ticino Notary’s committee and held on November 12th, 2010 in Milan, pages 13 – 30.

2012
“Liberalization of tariffs – abolition of the registers – corporation and law firms”, presentation held at the seminar organized by the Milan Lawyer’s association on January 27th, 2012 in Milan

2020.03
Report on “Switzerland: how can Transitional Justice support asset recovery and right to reparation?” at the international conference “Truth, accountability and asset recovery: how Transitional Justice can fight corruption?” organized by the International Center for Transitional Justice, – ICTJ, NY, USA, on March 2-3, 2020, at Hotel Africa in Tunis, Tunisia. Written trace, with three infographs, posted in Academia.edu and LinkedIn.com.

2020
‘Proditorial Assaults: terrorist acts in the name of God or common law crimes? Switzerland and its (new) counterterrorism regulations comparison of the events in Nice – Morges – Lugano – Vienna and Trier”, 2020.12.13 research (in Italian), posted on Academia.edu and LinkedIn.

2021.05
“European-matrix digital passenger tracking modules and land application at Italian-Swiss land border crossings”, posted on LinkedIn, May, 2021, 24.

2021.09
“The Implications of The Recent Swiss Decisions to Unfreeze the Ben Ali Assets on Assets Recovery Efforts in Tunisia,” relation held on September 25, 2021, on occasion of the Workshop organized by International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) remotely from Tunis, Tunisia, related to: “Tunisia’s Current “Exceptional Circumstances” and the Status of Promoting Accountability for Dictatorship-related Corruption.”

2021.11
“New transport technologies and territorial planning in Switzerland: is it not time to consider ultra-fast speed passenger transport systems in vacuum tunnels?” (In English), posted on LinkedIn on November 7, 2021.

2022.01
“Lake Maggiore, Artificial Height Regulation and International Law” (in Italian), research on January 15, 2022, posted on Academia.edu.

2021.10
Report “Corporate Assemblies and the Remote Notary Public in Switzerland and Canton Ticino – with brief excursus on Ticino’s remote telephone signature authentication, and which Appendix and the Swiss Precautionary Mandate” (in Italian), the state of play on an evolving subject, October 8, 2021, in virtual remote conference from Milan, for the “Comitato dei Notariati Lombardo Ticinese”, Milan, posted on LinkedIn and Academia.edu.

2022.04
“Swiss Neutrality and Sanctions” (in Italian and English) research, April 25, 2022, published on Academia.edu and LinkedIn.

2022.06
“Climate Change, Drought, Desertification, Inland Navigation in the Po River Basin and Italian-Swiss Relations, some reflection from the Swiss perspective” (in Italian), research published June 19, 2022, on LinkedIn and June 2, 2022, on the news portal Liberatv.ch.

2022.07
“How to cooperate with, and how to recover illicit assets from Switzerland” relation held on occasion of the Roundtable discussion “Illicit Asset Recovery and Transitional Justice: Lessons and Challenges” by the International Center for Transitional Justice – ICTJ – NY, Armenia on July 19, 2022, at “Alexander” hotel, “Dvin” hall, Yerevan, Armenia (via Zoom)

2022.09
“Swiss federal Transport Outlook 2050 and SwissMetro-NG project” (in English), research posted on September 25, 2022, on LinkedIn.

2023.03
“Sanctions by Swiss federal Department of Economic Affairs and Freezing and Restitution of Illicit Assets held by Foreign Politically Exposed Persons by the Department of Justice and Department of Foreign affairs and possible role of Truth and reconciliation commissions as “soft” Transitional Justice procedures.” Expanded specifically with representation also of the Swiss Embargo Act.” (Infograph in English)

2023.04
“Corporate Meetings and the Remote Notary with the Use of Electronic Means in Switzerland and the Canton of Ticino: Situation after the Covid-19 Extraordinary Regulatory Regime (with some reflections on associations and an excursus on Ticino’s telephone signature authentication) – The State of Play on an Evolving Matter” (in Italian), reworking and updating of the report given on October 8, 2021 at a virtual remote conference from Milan, for the “Committee of Lombardy and Ticino Notary Public”, situation at April 7^th, 2023.

2023.10
“The Procedure of Mentioning the Relationship of Trust on Real Estate in a Cantonal Land Register in Switzerland in the Context of Real and Succession Rights from the Perspective of the Ticino Notary” v2 (in Italian and English).
Text prepared on the occasion of the afternoon study organized by the Lombardy and Ticino Notariats Committee on October 13, 2023 held at the Aula Magna USI, Lugano, Switzerland // translated into English, revised and amended and presented in English (with parallel revised and amended translation v2 in Italian) at the Euro-American Lawyers Group (EALG) meeting on October 27, 2023 held in Istanbul, Republic of Turkey.

 

Associations:

Canton of Ticino Bar association, Mendrisio;

Swiss Bar Association, Bern;

International Bar Association, London, UK.

Canton of Ticino Notaries Association, Lugano;

Swiss Notaries Association, Bern;

Association of the Jurists of Bern, Bern;

Swiss Society of Criminal Law;

Swiss Society of Jurists;

Swiss Forum for Communications Law, Zurich;

Swiss Society of International Law.

Euro-American Lawyers Group (EALG).