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OUR PEOPLE

At People we believe that the key to the success and well-being of every family and company lies in the quality of the people who comprise them.

Each member of our team shares a single mission: to put people and their needs at the heart of everything we do. We offer a personalised, discreet and results-oriented service, because to us, “You Matter”.

Marco Accolla, lawyer

Founder

A lawyer who has been involved in asset management since 2008.

Chairman of the Board of Directors of People Family Office and also Managing Partner of Accolla Law Firm.
Over the course of his 15 years of professional experience, he has acquired solid expertise in the field of asset management on behalf of individuals or on legal assignments. In addition, he has consolidated experience in the field of financial and family criminal law.

A member of the Milan Bar since 2020, he has been Board Secretary since 2023.

Founder of the Associazione Nazionale Tutori e Amministratori di sostegno (National Association of Tutors and Support Administrators and Chairman) from 2013 to 2022.

Member of the Executive Committee of ASLA – Associazione Studi Legali Associati (Association of Associated Law Firms) since 2021.

Coordinator of the Private Wealth Management working group of ASLA – Associazione Studi Legi Associati (Association of Associated Law Firms) since 2024.

Professional experience

Year 2024 – Founder and Managing Partner of Accolla Law Firm S.t.a.r.l.

Year 2017 – Founder and Managing Partner of Accolla e Associati

Year 2015 – Name partner of Studio Legale Accolla

Year 2012 – Partner of Studio Legale ASALEX

Year 2009 – Partner of Studio Legale Accolla – Agrati

Memberships

Chairman of the Consensual Justice and Arbitration Commission of the Milan Bar Association.

Chairman of the Commission of Council Members and Secretaries at the Lombard Union of Bars and Law Societies.

Coordinator of the Private Wealth Management working group of ASLA – Associazione Studi Legi Associati (Association of Associated Law Firms).

Member of the People, Family and Minors Commission of the Milan Bar Association.

Member of the Red Code Commission of the Milan Bar Association.

Member of the Young Lawyers Commission of the Milan Bar Association.

Member of the Executive Committee of ASLA – Associazione Studi Legali Associati (Association of Associated Law Firms).

Former Chairman of the Associazione Nazionale Tutori e Amministratori di sostegno (National Association of Tutors and Support Administrators).

Teaching

For the State University of Milan, lecturer at the post-graduate course “Rights and inclusion of people with disabilities in a multidisciplinary perspective”.

For the Milan Bar Association – organisation and teaching of the “Training course for basic course support administrators” in Milan;

For the University of Milan – lecturer at the post-graduate course in “Support administration: people, assets, business”;

For the Post Graduate Legal Training School of Milan – teacher of the “Compulsory course for trainee lawyers”;

For ASLA – lecturer at the “Judicial training course for practising lawyers”;

For the Italian National Association of Tutors and Support Administrators Milan – direction and teaching of the “Theoretical and practical course for Support Administrators” in Milan, Pavia, Monza and Busto Arsizio. Course accredited by the Council of the Milan Bar Association and the National Bar Council;

Publications

In The We Wealth Guides – Trust opportunities, from asset management to generational transfer, editing contributions “Trust: Main characteristics of the Institute” and “Tax monitoring: the declaratory obligations for Trust”;

In We Wealth Magazine – June 20, 2023 article “Support administration and the fiduciary heading of Assets”;

In Wealth Magazine – 1 March 2022 article “Asset planning: development of the Trust Company”

Conferences

11 July 2024 – Associazione Studi Legali Associati – speaker at the conference “The practice of the profession and legal ethics”;

18 April 2024 – University of Milan – speaker at the conference “Disability and inclusion”;

10 April 2024 – La Scala Law Firm – speaker at the conference “Access to the profession, from Internship to Solemn Pledge”

9 April 2024 – Milan Bar Association – speaker at the conference “20 years of AdS in Milan”

5 April 2024 – Istanbul Bar Association – key speaker at the 146th Bar Association anniversary Symposium

7 February 2024 – POST-GRADUATE PRACTICAL LAW SCHOOL – speaker at the conference “Lawyer Ethics and Professional Law”;

17 January 2024 – ASSORUP – Speaker at the conference “The assignments putting fair compensation to the test”;

26 October 2023 – Milan Bar Association – speaker at the conference “European Criminal Law”

10 October 2023 – Milan Bar Association – speaker at the conference “Consensual justice and arbitration after the Cartabia reform”;

2 October 2023 – Milan Bar Association – speaker at the conference “Law Firm Startup”

27 September 2023 – CREDIT VILLAGE – speaker at the conference “Secured loans between the Market Price and Judicial Price”;

26 September 2023 – STEP – speaker at the conference “From the trust “after us” to the trust “during us””;

5 July 2023 – Associazione Studi Legali Associati – speaker at the conference “The practice of the profession and legal ethics”;

7 June 2023 – Milan Bar Association – speaker at the conference “The operational management of the Law Firm”;

31 January 2023 – AIAF – speaker at the conference “The ethics of the  Support Administrator Lawyer”;

20 January 2023 – Intesa San Paolo Private Bank – speaker at the conference “Support administration: activities and relevant issues in relationship with banks”;

19 December 2022 – Studio Legale Tonucci – speaker at the conference “Legal specialisations”;

17 October 2022 – Associazione Professionisti del diritto (Association of Legal Professionals) – speaker at the conference “Banks and customers: the new frontiers of jurisprudence and ethical limits”;

5 July 2022 – Milan Bar Association – speaker at the conference “The role of the Lawyer in the light of professional ethics”;

14 December 2021 – Milan Bar Association – speaker at the conference “Encounters with the legal system and ethics”;

26 November 2021 – Allen & Overy Law Firm – speaker at the conference “Social Media and Ethics”

9 November 2021 – Beker McKenzie Law Firm – speaker at the conference “Duty of expertise and specialisations”;

3 November 2021 – Milan Bar Association – speaker at the conference “Administration and judicial review”;

23 September 2021 – Milan Bar Association – speaker at the conference “Nature, quantification and taxation of fair compensation”;

21 September 2021 – Milan Bar Association – speaker at the conference “Legal specialisations and new skills”;

23 February 2021 – Milan Bar Association – speaker at the conference “The new specialisations of lawyers: state of the art and prospects”;

16 September 2020 – Associazione Nazionale Italiana Tutori ed Amministratori di sostegno (Italian National Association of Tutors and Support Administrators) – speaker at the conference “Covid and post-Covid support administrations”;

9 June 2020 – Milan Bar Association – speaker at the conference “The role of AdS in the Covid 19 emergency”;

8 March 2020 – Milan Bar Association – speaker at the conference “Tax regime of fair compensation for support administrators in light of the recent judgment of the Court of Cassation”;

25 March 2019 – Associazione Futuro Forense (Future Law Association) – speaker at the conference “Vulnerable people and civil protection systems”;

14 March 2019 – Pavia Civil Chamber – speaker at the conference “TSO, ASO and support administration, protecting people in distress”;

4 December 2018 – Milan Bar Association – speaker at the conference “Not just the process: informative seminar on non-contentious legal activities to support judicial authority”

Training

Year 2019 – State University of Milan – Postgraduate course “Rights and inclusion of people with disabilities in a multidisciplinary perspective”.

Year 2017 – Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milan –
Higher School for Business and Society – University Master’s Degree “Small and Medium Enterprises and Competitiveness”.

Year 2014 – State University of Milan – Postgraduate course “Law, Tax and civil society in the Third Sector”.

Year 2013 – Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milan – Postgraduate course “The Third Sector between legislation and practice: civil, tax and accounting aspects”

Year 2013 – State University of Milan – Postgraduate course “Litigation before European Courts: The European Court of Human Rights”.

Year 2009 – Court of Appeal of Milan – Authorisation to practise the legal profession.

Year 2006 – Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milan – Law Degree with grade 110/110

Valentina Beccaria, lawyer

Founder

Valentina Beccaria mainly deals with the protection of persons and assets on behalf of individuals or on legal assignments.

She assists people in the resolution of family disputes; protection and planning of assets; succession planning and generational transfer.

Her specialisation in trust and estate planning, together with her previous experience with Amnesty International in the field of human rights, extends her areas of intervention to cross-border or international family situations.

Professional experience

Year 2024 – Partner of Accolla S.t.a.r.l.

Year 2021 – Salary Partner of Accolla e Associati.

Year 2019 – Associate Lawyer of Accolla e Associati.

Year 2017 – Lawyer at Studio Legale Accolla.

Year 2016 – Associate Lawyer of Studio Legale S.V.N.A.

Year 2012 – Advertiser at Amnesty International in the field of human rights, with a particular focus on international adoptions.

Year 2010 – Internship at the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Milan, anti-mafia district directorate, as a student at the Pavia-Bocconi post-graduate school for the legal professions.

Year 2009 – practicing lawyer at Studio Legale Vaccaro – Estrangeros.

Memberships

Head of the Special Interest Group “Mental Capacity” of the Italian branch of STEP (The Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners).

Full Membership, TEP (trust and estate practitioner) of the Italian branch of STEP (The Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners).

Active member of the Trust Association in Italy.

Associate of ANCP – Associazione Nazionale Consulenti Patrimoniali (National Association of Asset Consultants).

Lions Officer for the district of Milan Ib4 on the subject of Disability, Alzheimer’s and Support Administration.

Teaching and Publications

Year 2022 – ongoing – contributor to the magazine “We Wealth”.

From 2017 to 2020 – Associazione Nazionale Italiana Tutori ed Amministratori di sostegno (Italian National Association of Tutors and Support Administrators) – teaching in the “Practical Theoretical Course for Support Administrators” in Milan, Pavia, Monza and Busto Arsizio. Course accredited by the Board of the Milan Bar Association.

Year 2016 – Teacher of constitutional law for the Res Publica 33 project, Leonardo Educazione formazione lavoro s.r.l.

Year 2010 – Tutor in Criminal Procedure at the Cesare Beccaria Department of Criminal Procedure, University of Pavia.

Training

Year 2021 – Master’s Degree “Trust Law in the Countries of Origin and in Italy” XXI edition organised by the Consorzio Uniforma.

Year 2019 – Master’s Degree in “Transfer Protection and Management of Family Assets” at Sole 24 ore Business School, Milan.

Year 2018 – Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan – Basic course on Payroll and “Payroll specialist” contributions.

Year 2016 – ANITA Practical Theoretical Course, aimed at training support administrators.

Year 2015 – Two-year Master’s Degree in Family Mediation at CENAF Milan.

Year 2009 – Post-graduate school for the legal professions Pavia Bocconi.

Year 2009 – University of Pavia – Law Degree.

Marco Accolla, lawyer

Founder

A lawyer who has been involved in asset management since 2008.

Chairman of the Board of Directors of People Family Office and also Managing Partner of Accolla Law Firm.
Over the course of his 15 years of professional experience, he has acquired solid expertise in the field of asset management on behalf of individuals or on legal assignments. In addition, he has consolidated experience in the field of financial and family criminal law.

A member of the Milan Bar since 2020, he has been Board Secretary since 2023.

Founder of the Associazione Nazionale Tutori e Amministratori di sostegno (National Association of Tutors and Support Administrators and Chairman) from 2013 to 2022.

Member of the Executive Committee of ASLA – Associazione Studi Legali Associati (Association of Associated Law Firms) since 2021.

Coordinator of the Private Wealth Management working group of ASLA – Associazione Studi Legi Associati (Association of Associated Law Firms) since 2024.

Professional experience

Year 2024 – Founder and Managing Partner of Accolla Law Firm S.t.a.r.l.

Year 2017 – Founder and Managing Partner of Accolla e Associati

Year 2015 – Name partner of Studio Legale Accolla

Year 2012 – Partner of Studio Legale ASALEX

Year 2009 – Partner of Studio Legale Accolla – Agrati

Memberships

Chairman of the Consensual Justice and Arbitration Commission of the Milan Bar Association.

Chairman of the Commission of Council Members and Secretaries at the Lombard Union of Bars and Law Societies.

Coordinator of the Private Wealth Management working group of ASLA – Associazione Studi Legi Associati (Association of Associated Law Firms).

Member of the People, Family and Minors Commission of the Milan Bar Association.

Member of the Red Code Commission of the Milan Bar Association.

Member of the Young Lawyers Commission of the Milan Bar Association.

Member of the Executive Committee of ASLA – Associazione Studi Legali Associati (Association of Associated Law Firms).

Former Chairman of the Associazione Nazionale Tutori e Amministratori di sostegno (National Association of Tutors and Support Administrators).

Teaching

For the State University of Milan, lecturer at the post-graduate course “Rights and inclusion of people with disabilities in a multidisciplinary perspective”.

For the Milan Bar Association – organisation and teaching of the “Training course for basic course support administrators” in Milan;

For the University of Milan – lecturer at the post-graduate course in “Support administration: people, assets, business”;

For the Post Graduate Legal Training School of Milan – teacher of the “Compulsory course for trainee lawyers”;

For ASLA – lecturer at the “Judicial training course for practising lawyers”;

For the Italian National Association of Tutors and Support Administrators Milan – direction and teaching of the “Theoretical and practical course for Support Administrators” in Milan, Pavia, Monza and Busto Arsizio. Course accredited by the Council of the Milan Bar Association and the National Bar Council;

Publications

In The We Wealth Guides – Trust opportunities, from asset management to generational transfer, editing contributions “Trust: Main characteristics of the Institute” and “Tax monitoring: the declaratory obligations for Trust”;

In We Wealth Magazine – June 20, 2023 article “Support administration and the fiduciary heading of Assets”;

In Wealth Magazine – 1 March 2022 article “Asset planning: development of the Trust Company”

Conferences

11 July 2024 – Associazione Studi Legali Associati – speaker at the conference “The practice of the profession and legal ethics”;

18 April 2024 – University of Milan – speaker at the conference “Disability and inclusion”;

10 April 2024 – La Scala Law Firm – speaker at the conference “Access to the profession, from Internship to Solemn Pledge”

9 April 2024 – Milan Bar Association – speaker at the conference “20 years of AdS in Milan”

5 April 2024 – Istanbul Bar Association – key speaker at the 146th Bar Association anniversary Symposium

7 February 2024 – POST-GRADUATE PRACTICAL LAW SCHOOL – speaker at the conference “Lawyer Ethics and Professional Law”;

17 January 2024 – ASSORUP – Speaker at the conference “The assignments putting fair compensation to the test”;

26 October 2023 – Milan Bar Association – speaker at the conference “European Criminal Law”

10 October 2023 – Milan Bar Association – speaker at the conference “Consensual justice and arbitration after the Cartabia reform”;

2 October 2023 – Milan Bar Association – speaker at the conference “Law Firm Startup”

27 September 2023 – CREDIT VILLAGE – speaker at the conference “Secured loans between the Market Price and Judicial Price”;

26 September 2023 – STEP – speaker at the conference “From the trust “after us” to the trust “during us””;

5 July 2023 – Associazione Studi Legali Associati – speaker at the conference “The practice of the profession and legal ethics”;

7 June 2023 – Milan Bar Association – speaker at the conference “The operational management of the Law Firm”;

31 January 2023 – AIAF – speaker at the conference “The ethics of the  Support Administrator Lawyer”;

20 January 2023 – Intesa San Paolo Private Bank – speaker at the conference “Support administration: activities and relevant issues in relationship with banks”;

19 December 2022 – Studio Legale Tonucci – speaker at the conference “Legal specialisations”;

17 October 2022 – Associazione Professionisti del diritto (Association of Legal Professionals) – speaker at the conference “Banks and customers: the new frontiers of jurisprudence and ethical limits”;

5 July 2022 – Milan Bar Association – speaker at the conference “The role of the Lawyer in the light of professional ethics”;

14 December 2021 – Milan Bar Association – speaker at the conference “Encounters with the legal system and ethics”;

26 November 2021 – Allen & Overy Law Firm – speaker at the conference “Social Media and Ethics”

9 November 2021 – Beker McKenzie Law Firm – speaker at the conference “Duty of expertise and specialisations”;

3 November 2021 – Milan Bar Association – speaker at the conference “Administration and judicial review”;

23 September 2021 – Milan Bar Association – speaker at the conference “Nature, quantification and taxation of fair compensation”;

21 September 2021 – Milan Bar Association – speaker at the conference “Legal specialisations and new skills”;

23 February 2021 – Milan Bar Association – speaker at the conference “The new specialisations of lawyers: state of the art and prospects”;

16 September 2020 – Associazione Nazionale Italiana Tutori ed Amministratori di sostegno (Italian National Association of Tutors and Support Administrators) – speaker at the conference “Covid and post-Covid support administrations”;

9 June 2020 – Milan Bar Association – speaker at the conference “The role of AdS in the Covid 19 emergency”;

8 March 2020 – Milan Bar Association – speaker at the conference “Tax regime of fair compensation for support administrators in light of the recent judgment of the Court of Cassation”;

25 March 2019 – Associazione Futuro Forense (Future Law Association) – speaker at the conference “Vulnerable people and civil protection systems”;

14 March 2019 – Pavia Civil Chamber – speaker at the conference “TSO, ASO and support administration, protecting people in distress”;

4 December 2018 – Milan Bar Association – speaker at the conference “Not just the process: informative seminar on non-contentious legal activities to support judicial authority”

Training

Year 2019 – State University of Milan – Postgraduate course “Rights and inclusion of people with disabilities in a multidisciplinary perspective”.

Year 2017 – Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milan –
Higher School for Business and Society – University Master’s Degree “Small and Medium Enterprises and Competitiveness”.

Year 2014 – State University of Milan – Postgraduate course “Law, Tax and civil society in the Third Sector”.

Year 2013 – Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milan – Postgraduate course “The Third Sector between legislation and practice: civil, tax and accounting aspects”

Year 2013 – State University of Milan – Postgraduate course “Litigation before European Courts: The European Court of Human Rights”.

Year 2009 – Court of Appeal of Milan – Authorisation to practise the legal profession.

Year 2006 – Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milan – Law Degree with grade 110/110

Valentina Beccaria, lawyer

Founder

Valentina Beccaria mainly deals with the protection of persons and assets on behalf of individuals or on legal assignments.

She assists people in the resolution of family disputes; protection and planning of assets; succession planning and generational transfer.

Her specialisation in trust and estate planning, together with her previous experience with Amnesty International in the field of human rights, extends her areas of intervention to cross-border or international family situations.

Professional experience

Year 2024 – Partner of Accolla S.t.a.r.l.

Year 2021 – Salary Partner of Accolla e Associati.

Year 2019 – Associate Lawyer of Accolla e Associati.

Year 2017 – Lawyer at Studio Legale Accolla.

Year 2016 – Associate Lawyer of Studio Legale S.V.N.A.

Year 2012 – Advertiser at Amnesty International in the field of human rights, with a particular focus on international adoptions.

Year 2010 – Internship at the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Milan, anti-mafia district directorate, as a student at the Pavia-Bocconi post-graduate school for the legal professions.

Year 2009 – practicing lawyer at Studio Legale Vaccaro – Estrangeros.

Memberships

Head of the Special Interest Group “Mental Capacity” of the Italian branch of STEP (The Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners).

Full Membership, TEP (trust and estate practitioner) of the Italian branch of STEP (The Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners).

Active member of the Trust Association in Italy.

Associate of ANCP – Associazione Nazionale Consulenti Patrimoniali (National Association of Asset Consultants).

Lions Officer for the district of Milan Ib4 on the subject of Disability, Alzheimer’s and Support Administration.

Teaching and Publications

Year 2022 – ongoing – contributor to the magazine “We Wealth”.

From 2017 to 2020 – Associazione Nazionale Italiana Tutori ed Amministratori di sostegno (Italian National Association of Tutors and Support Administrators) – teaching in the “Practical Theoretical Course for Support Administrators” in Milan, Pavia, Monza and Busto Arsizio. Course accredited by the Board of the Milan Bar Association.

Year 2016 – Teacher of constitutional law for the Res Publica 33 project, Leonardo Educazione formazione lavoro s.r.l.

Year 2010 – Tutor in Criminal Procedure at the Cesare Beccaria Department of Criminal Procedure, University of Pavia.

Training

Year 2021 – Master’s Degree “Trust Law in the Countries of Origin and in Italy” XXI edition organised by the Consorzio Uniforma.

Year 2019 – Master’s Degree in “Transfer Protection and Management of Family Assets” at Sole 24 ore Business School, Milan.

Year 2018 – Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan – Basic course on Payroll and “Payroll specialist” contributions.

Year 2016 – ANITA Practical Theoretical Course, aimed at training support administrators.

Year 2015 – Two-year Master’s Degree in Family Mediation at CENAF Milan.

Year 2009 – Post-graduate school for the legal professions Pavia Bocconi.

Year 2009 – University of Pavia – Law Degree.