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FAILLA & Partners Offices

FAILLA & Partners
Piazza Armando Diaz, 6
20123 Milan
Italy
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FAILLA & Partners > The Legal 500 Rankings

Italy > Employment Tier 3

Taking on four new associates in 2023, employment boutique FAILLA & Partners aids companies in contentious and non-contentious matters related to acquisitions, agency agreements, disciplinary procedures, dismissals, social security, reorganisations and industrial relations. In particular, the firm has increased its expertise in internal investigations on matters ranging from allegations of sexual misconduct to employment contract breaches. Founding member and managing partner Luca Failla is noted for his management of sensitive reorganisations and restructuring projects on the national and international stage. Within the team, Marcello Buzzini is noted for his assistance in employment-related litigation.

Practice head(s):

Luca Failla; Marcello Buzzini; Elisabetta Cassaneti; Claudia Marasciuolo; Paola Salazar

Testimonials

‘Exceptional knowledge, associated with a long and successful experience, as well as an innate capability of the founder to share solutions in an easy way.’

‘Responsive, competent and accurate.’

‘Well-rounded lawyers, able to work with international clients.’

‘The team is very competent and well-organised in order to provide the client with a wide range of services. The consultancy is precise and open to any kind of discussion. Every component of the team is very business oriented and is capable of connecting legal aspects to the corporate needs.’

‘The founder Luca Failla is an outstanding professional. His attention to all details, and meticoulous approach to the facts, along with a long legal experience in the labour world and the capability to reassure his clients make you feel him more as a colleague than a consultant ’

Key clients

Adecco

Ikea

Lavazza

Hermes

La Perla

Volvo

Eni

Zalando

Brembo

Datalogic

International School Florence

Riva Acciaio

Feltrinelli Publishing Group

Elior Group

Acqua & Sapone

Alfa Laval

Chaberton Human Resources Services

Mycis

Alfa Laval

FAILLA & Partners > Firm Profile

Failla&Partners is founded on the 35+ years of experience of founding and managing partner Luca Failla and the historical team he has worked with for those years.

For decades, they have been providing counsel on a wide range of people management issues that companies must face each day – in and out of court – from acquisitions to agency agreements, contracts to consultancy, disciplinary procedures and dismissals, executive benefits to European works councils, immigration to industrial relations, legal opinions to litigation, management models to mergers, social security to strategy, reorganizations to restructurings and so much more!

Today we find the close relationship between employers and their legal counsel has never been so important as together they survey a new landscape of work and productivity – to ensure business continuity and safeguarding employment where possible. It is in this spirit that Failla&Partners has established itself as a new Italian employment and labor law boutique with a solid foundation of work – for work – behind it.

Failla&Partners anchors its strength on decades of experience advising both national and international organizations and executives on a wide range of workplace matters and business strategy – in the good times and the bad.

How can we help you today?
Agency
Corporate governance
Cross-border
Data protection
Dematerialization
Dismissal procedures
Diversity
Employee due diligence
Employment contracts
Executive benefits
Expatriates
European works councils
Government incentive schemes
Health and safety in the workplace
Immigration
Individual and collective dismissals
Industrial relations
Investigations
Labor court representation
Mergers and acquisitions
Organizational models
Pensions
Privacy
Secondments
Staff benefits
Strategy
Social security litigation
Reorganizations
Restructurings
Risk management
Transfers of business
Trade union negotiations
Smart working
Staff handbooks
Strategy
Supreme court
Whistleblowing

… and so much more!

www.faillapartners.com

Main Contacts

Department Name Email Telephone
Italian Employment & Labor Law Luca Failla info@faillapartners.com +39 02 84 50 27 07

Lawyer Profiles

Photo Name Position Profile
Marcello Buzzini photo Avv Marcello Buzzini Partner Marcello Buzzini focuses his practice on providing counsel on a wide… View Profile
Elisabetta Cassaneti photo Avv Elisabetta Cassaneti Elisabetta has been exclusively specialized in providing counsel on Italian Employment and… View Profile
Luca Failla photo Avv Luca Failla Luca Failla is the Founding and Managing Partner of Failla&Partners. His practice… View Profile
Claudia Marasciuolo photo Avv Claudia Marasciuolo Claudia has been exclusively dedicated to providing clients counsel on Italian employment… View Profile
Paola Salazar photo Avv Paola Salazar Paola Salazar has exclusively dedicated her legal practice to providing counsel on… View Profile

Languages

English
French
Italian

Memberships

International Bar Association (IBA)
American Bar Association (ABA)
European Employment Lawyers Association (EELA)
The Association of Italian Employment Lawyers (AGI)
The Association of Italian Law Firms (ASLA)

Client Testimonials


  • “The personal dedication we receive is noteworthy. We also appreciate the innovative approach to legal questions and the exhaustive care that has been brought to our cases. The legal position is based on layers of argument which makes our positions robust and intellectually convincing.” – 2023
  • “‘Luca Failla: by far the best labour lawyer in Italy. Serious, prepared, with the ability to put various points into a framework.” – 2023
  • “The care we receive, the personal engagement, the intellectual dialogue. The team has come to know us and we have constructed an authentic relationship. We have been able to engage in a back-and-forth relationship that we feel has given us exceptional representation.” – 2023
  • “‘Elisabetta Cassaneti: the best in driving the operations of the team, coordinating and making it happen, while finding also a base for the core ideas.” – 2023
  • “Luca Failla and Marcello Buzzini are very prepared and have a pragmatic attitude.” – 2022
  • “The collaboration with them (and in particular Marcello Buzzini) is highly satisfactory.”– 2022
  • “Luca Failla is an excellent lawyer with experience in both advisory and litigation.” – 2022
  • Luca Failla is a “great professional attentive to detail and always on time” – 2021
  • “Luca Failla is one of the best labour lawyers one can meet” – 2020
  • Luca Failla has “outstanding skills as a litigator. He is committed to win and has the ability to solve complex problems efficiently” – 2018
  • Marcello Buzzini is “full and absolute availability, very responsive, very in-depth knowledge of the subject and ability to frame business problems well” – 2017
  • Luca Failla is “an extraordinary litigator with an uncommon knowledge of procedural aspects…” – 2017

Additional Tab


  • Eminent National Boutique 2023
    Luca Failla & Marcello Buzzini – IEL ELITE
  • Labor Litigation Lawyer of the Year 2023
    Luca Failla – TopLegal Awards
  • Labor Litigation Lawyer of the Year – Food & Beverage 2023
    Luca Failla – LegalCommunity Labor Awards
  • Labor Litigation Lawyer of the Year 2022
    Luca Failla – TopLegal Awards
  • Labor Litigation Lawyer of the Year 2022
    Luca Failla – LegalCommunity Labor Awards
  • Italian Employment Law 2020
    Luca Failla & Marcello Buzzini – Milano Finanza Legal Awards
  • Labor Litigation Lawyer of the Year 2019
    Luca Failla – TopLegal Awards
  • Labor Restructuring Professional of the Year 2019
    Luca Failla – LegalCommunity Labor Awards
  • Labor Litigation Lawyer of the Year 2013
    Luca Failla – LegalCommunity Labor Awards

International Capabilities


The Failla&Partners team has an established history working at the international level on numerous cross-border matters together with leading employment law lawyers and law firms in foreign jurisdictions.

The network of personal relationships with the top international players in the market means that Failla&Partners can work closely together with trusted advisors as clients navigate the regulatory framework for workplaces beyond national borders.

Notable Cases


Below are just a few of the numerous complex matters the team has advised on over the years – at times creating new legal precedents in the process:

  • MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
    Advised on the employment law aspects of the sale of an important retail activity with 700 stores and 2000 employees in Italy. The team also provided day-to-day counsel to this client post sale.
  • REORGANISATIONS
    Advised an internationally recognized fashion label on a complex business reorganization of its Italian operations, which led to a 25% reduction of the workforce – hence saving 75% of the existing positions. Negotiations with the Italian Trade Unions and the Italian Ministry for Economic Development were required for a successful agreement – which also included the adoption of alternative measures aimed at mitigating the social effect of the redundancies.
  • DEMATERIALIZATION | SMART WORKING 
    Advised a company on the dematerialization of their back office and adopting Smart Working as a normal type of employment contract. The reorganization, which impacted 350+ employees, was implemented through the introduction of an innovative company collective labour agreement which identified a new relationship between salary and objectives for all the employees.
  • WORKPLACE INVESTIGATIONS
    Advised an internationally recognized retail chain on a very sensitive internal investigation which uncovered sophisticated illicit activities carried out in one of its locations in Italy, involving 30+ employees during working hours. Disciplinary procedures were applied to all those involved – with a number of  dismissals involved.
  • CROSS BORDER
    Management and assistance of the labor law profiles of a business transfer transaction involving the personnel of an Italian Company employed in more than 8 European countries.

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