Scato specialises in Dutch corporate income tax, with a particular focus on fund structuring, mergers and acquisitions, and tax advice for entrepreneurs and private clients. He advises private equity firms, private debt funds, fund managers, investors, family-owned businesses and shareholders on transactions as well as complex domestic and international structures.

Clients engage Scato in connection with the establishment and restructuring of investment and private debt funds, management participation plans and carried interest arrangements. He also advises on tax due diligence, acquisitions, corporate reorganisations and shareholder matters. Within his private client practice, he assists entrepreneurs and families with the structuring and transfer of business and family wealth.

Scato combines a technical and analytical approach with a clear understanding of his clients’ commercial and practical objectives. He regularly works alongside lawyers, civil-law notaries and overseas tax advisers, translating complex tax rules into clear and workable solutions. His practice is strongly cross-border, particularly in the private equity and investment funds sector.