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Toffoletto De Luca Tamajo > Firm Profile

The firm: Toffoletto De Luca Tamajo is a leading Italian law firm, which specialises in assisting companies with employment law, labour law, commercial agency agreements and HR management and payroll issues. With a team of 29 partners and more than 150 associates and staff across its 12 offices in Milan, Naples, Rome, Bologna, Bergamo, Brescia, Genova, Varese, Bari, Turin, Venice and Treviso – and as a member of Ius Laboris, an international alliance of global human resources lawyers – we are able to manage the most complex of transactions, both in Italy and abroad. With 90 years of experience in employment law, we pride ourselves in having at our fingertips the know-how and resources to offer tailor-made services to our clients around the world.

The firm has worked exclusively with companies for over 95 years on all aspects of HR management; from providing day-to-day legal advice to litigation and payroll services.

Toffoletto De Luca Tamajo is one of the five members that founded the Ius Laboris Alliance (www.iuslaboris.com), the largest global alliance of leading employment, labour and pensions law firms. Through the alliance, the firm is able to offer clients the highest standard legal services across 59 countries: truly global coverage, with local knowledge and expertise. The firm regularly manages cross-border projects across multiple jurisdictions; always finding the innovative solutions tailored to its clients’ ever-changing needs.

The firm, and its professionals, are consistently rated at both a national and international level among the top leaders in the field of employment and labour law, as well as legal technology.

The firm has been recognised several times by the Financial Times Innovative Layers Report – Europe, including in 2020 when the firm was commended for the service it provided to companies during the Covid-19 state of emergency. In 2019, the firm was recognised in two categories: “Data, Knowledge and Intelligence” and “New Products and Services”. It was also ranked among the 50 Most Innovative Law Firms in Europe. The firm’s Automated Contract Creation Platform was also selected as a finalist for the Financial Times Innovative Lawyers Awards Europe in 2018 and for its use of technology in its FT Innovative Lawyers Report 2015 thanks to the creation of a unique piece of software: iLex. The firm has also received the Digital Professional Award on different occasions from the Digital Innovation Observatory of Politecnico University of Milan, including recognition for two of its digital products: Total Reward Statement and Futuhro.

The firm’s partners are members of the Italian Employment Lawyers Association (Avvocati Giuslavoristi Italiani – AGI, www.giuslav.it), EELA – European Employment Lawyers Association (www.eela.org) and IBA (www.ibanet.org).

Details of the firm’s profile, services and partners are all available on the website, www.toffolettodeluca.it.

Practice areas: The firm advises both domestic and international clients in all sectors, including: banking, insurance, financial services, pharmaceuticals and healthcare, advertising, media, telecommunications, information technology, automotive, aviation, mining, manufacturing, fashion, food and beverage, real estate, publishing and retail, on all matters.

The firm strives to develop a close and long-term relationship with each of its clients. Its aim is to achieve ‘win-win’ situations for its clients and to ensure its business relationships are easy, efficient and productive.

The firm assists clients through the provision of legal services in every aspect of employment and labour law. These include:

Employment and labour: Negotiation of collective agreements; interpretation of collective agreements; strategic considerations on the possibilities and risks of industrial conflicts; participation in trade union negotiations; assistance in the elaboration of business and managerial strategies; assistance in agreements for the constitution of European Work Councils; litigation.

M&A and restructuring: Employee-related due diligence; planning of employment law issues in the context of mergers and acquisitions; outsourcing and restructuring processes; collective redundancies; audits and due diligence.

Drawing up of employment contracts: Restrictive covenants, confidentiality clauses, privacy clauses, employee inventions and non-competition clauses.

Human resources management: Employment procedures and policies; smart working policies; company regulations; confidentiality procedures; use of IT equipment and email; employee monitoring procedures; data privacy; disciplinary codes and code of ethics; technology and employee rights; international secondments.

Executive compensation and incentive arrangements: Bonus schemes and stock option plans; employee benefits; employee welfare benefit plans.

Management of employment contracts: Application of disciplinary sanctions; transfers, changes of job or other conditions of the employment contract; reduction-in-workforce, plant closure and collective redundancies.

Employment and HR management consultancy: Pay slips, Relations with the local authorities (INPS, INAIL, etc.), Payment of social security contributions, Periodical statements (Form 770, etc.), Strategical advice regarding staff policies.

Lawyer Profiles

Photo	Name	Position	Profile
	Ms Annarita Ammirati	Partner	View Profile
	Ms Annarita Ammirati	Partner	View Profile
	Mr Aldo Bottini	Partner	View Profile
	Mr Elio Cherubini	Employment law and industrial relations; civil law; restructuring and transfer of undertakings;…	View Profile
	Ms Donatella Cungi	Employment law and industrial relations; restructuring; litigation	View Profile
	Mr Giacomo De Fazio	Employment law and industrial relations; contracts with commercial agents; restructuring; collective redundancies;…	View Profile
	Mr Raffaele De Luca Tamajo	Employment law and industrial relations	View Profile
	Mr Antonio Di Stasio	Employment Law and industrial relations; civil law; litigation; arbitration	View Profile
	Mr Massimo Dramis	Partner	View Profile
	Mr Lorenzo Gelmi	Partner	View Profile
	Mr Paolo Iasiello	Partner – Genoa office	View Profile
	Mr Francesco Lorenzi	Partner	View Profile
	Mr Vincenzo Luciani	Employment law and industrial relations; civil law; litigation; arbitration	View Profile
	Ms Valeria Morosini	Employment law and industrial relations; cross-border matters; international assignments; restructurings; litigation; contracts…	View Profile
	Ms Emanuela Nespoli	Partner	View Profile
	Mr Aldo Palumbo	Employment law; litigation; collective redundancies; transfers of undertaking; outsourcing processes; industrial relations;…	View Profile
	Ms Maddalena Paroletti	Partner – Genoa office	View Profile
	Ms Ornella Patané	Partner	View Profile
	Ms Federica Paternò	Employment law and industrial relations; litigation; arbitration	View Profile
	Ms Paola Pucci	Partner	View Profile
	Ms Lea Rossi	Partner	View Profile
	Ms Maria Teresa Salimbeni	Employment law and industrial relations; European law; litigation; arbitration	View Profile
	Mr Marco Sideri	Partner	View Profile
	Mr Franco Toffoletto	Chairman and Managing Partner	View Profile
	Mr Stefano de Luca Tamajo	Employment law and industrial relations; restructuring and transfer of undertakings; litigation	View Profile