Firm — Contact
Reach us
A person answers.
No chatbot and no anonymous call queue. If we cannot take your call, we will tell you when a member of the team can respond — and for anything substantive, the ninety-minute assessment is a better use of your time than an email thread.
Lisbon
Portuguese filings, fund diligence and AIMA liaison.
+351 210 000 000
Mon–Fri, 9:00–18:00 WET
Milan
Italian filings, questura liaison and local counsel.
+39 02 0000 0000
Mon–Fri, 9:00–18:00 CET
- The team
The people who will actually handle your file
A named lead stays with your file from the first assessment through to renewals. Legal, tax and investment advice is provided by the regulated professionals engaged for your file.
Michael Bell
- Founding Partner
Leads the private assessment and route selection, and stays on the file through filing and renewal. Point of contact for families weighing Portugal against Italy.
Brian Cormack
- Partner
Coordinates documentation, apostilles and appointment sequencing across both jurisdictions, and tracks renewal dates and rule changes for the life of the file.
Mariana Coelho
- Host — Mariana’s Portugal
Writes and films the Season One field journal from Porto and Lisbon. Mariana covers culture and everyday life; she does not advise on immigration, tax, investment or legal matters.
Samuel Picchi
- Host — Sam’s Italy
Writes and films the Season One field journal from Florence and Chianti. Samuel covers culture and everyday life; he does not advise on immigration, tax, investment or legal matters.
- Write to us
We reply within two business days
For anything substantive, the ninety-minute assessment is a better use of your time than an email thread — but start wherever you prefer.
Held in confidence. We do not sell, share or broker enquiry data.
Press, partnerships and everything else
For media enquiries, speaking requests or anything about Sam’s Italy, write to
press@elitegoldenvisa.com.
We do not pay for referrals and we do not accept them. If someone offers to introduce you to us for a fee, they are not connected to this firm.