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Federica Barbero

Work Department

Employment and Incentives

Position

Federica is head of the firm’s Italian Employment practice. She is experienced in all aspects of employment law, primarily focusing on senior managers’ employment contracts and terminations, retention arrangements, remuneration structures, works councils and unions’ relations and collective redundancy procedures. She also advises on transaction-related employment law issues, including in relation to mergers and acquisitions, business transfers and corporate restructurings.

Career

May 2014 to date: Linklaters, Milan, Counsel

2009-2014: Linklaters, Milan, Managing Associate

2000-2009: Bonelli Erede Pappalardo, Milan, Associate and Senior Associate in the Labour Department

1999: Secondment at BCMW – Brown Cooper Monier Williams Solicitors (formerly Brown Cooper Solicitors), London, UK

Languages

Italian and English

Memberships

Admitted to the Italian Bar association

Federica is also a fellow of AGI (Associazione Giuslavoristi Italiani), the Italian Employment Lawyers’ Association. The association gathers the most well reputed Italian Employment lawyers at a national level and is allied with various other Italian lawyers’ associations

Education

1993-1998: Graduated in law from Università degli Studi di Torino

1997:    Georgetown University Summer Program

Personal

Federica, as a recognised expert in employment matters and as an advocate for women’s rights, played a lead role in May 2015 in preparing and presenting a paper to the labour commission of the House of Representatives in connection with potential amendments to legislation to address work-life balance measures. This opportunity stemmed from Federica’s participation in an innovative year-long workshop programme sponsored by Valore D (which is the first and the largest association of companies in Italy aimed at supporting female leadership in the traditionally male-dominated corporate world) relating to work life balance and, specifically, to remote working, attended by HR heads of multinationals, including UniCredit, City Bank, Ikea and Poste Italiane.

Further, through the combined efforts of Linklaters and, among others, Valore D, Federica  has strongly supported the development of two pioneering programmes for women with the aim of balancing the gender split on boards in Italy: Board Membership Kit and In the Boardroom programme. In supporting this programme, Federica has been actively involved in giving lectures  on employment issues and lessons on salaries and compensation of company management.

In addition, Federica led on an initiative to create Link to The Future, a project providing practical legal training to some of Italy’s most innovative start-ups.

Federica authored and co-authored several articles on labour law and she also cooperates with the Italian specialist press.

Leisure

In May 2022, Federica took part in the Festival of Economics in Trento, as speaker at the conference: from the manufacturing industries to the banking institutions, upcoming trends in the labour market and the trade unions (Come cambiano mercato del lavoro e sindacati, dall’industria manifatturiera alle banche)