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Ichino Brugnatelli e Associati Offices
VIA LORENZO MASCHERONI 31
20145 MILAN
Italy
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Ichino Brugnatelli e Associati > Firm Profile
A boutique firm boosting long tradition, based on a commitment to render high quality legal assistance. Its lawyers have practiced litigation broadly for many years, even before the National Highest Courts and the European Court of Justice. Thanks to their experience in all main industry sectors, they provide sound practical and legal advice on a full spectrum of issues, bargaining practices, unions and social security matters (also including different types of pension funds), as well as legal services for all employment- related disputes. The main practice areas are employment law, labour law, social security law, privacy and data protection, commercial law, criminal law, administrative law. Advice is provided to company clients on extraordinary corporate transactions, with a particular focus on labour law issues relating to mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and reorganisations, redundancies and downsizing.
Representations include cases ad actions in Courts regarding either individual or collective contract termination, wrongful termination, claims for higher positions, claims for damages for harassment, demotion, or unsuitable work, and social security issues.
In addition, the firm comprises litigators and advisors in other practice areas than employment-related, who handle a number of disputes and matters, e.g.: landlord/tenant; construction; real estate; products liability; personal injury; infringement of privacy rights; liability arising from contracts and agreements; non-contractual liability.
Main Contacts
Department | Name | Telephone | |
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Employment Law | Pietro Ichino | pietro.ichino@ichinobrugnatelli.it | +390248193249 |
Business Law, Litigation & Arbitration | Francesco Brugnatelli | francesco.brugnatelli@ichinobrugnatelli.it | +390248193228 |
Labour Law & Litigation | Franco Tofacchi | franco.tofacchi@ichinobrugnatelli.it | +390248193249 |
Labour Law & Litigation | Piergiovanni Mandruzzato | piergiovanni.mandruzzato@ichinobrugnatelli.it | +390248193249 |
Employment & Labour | Carlo Fossati | carlo.fossati@ichinobrugnatelli.it | +390248193249 |
Social Security Law & Litigation | Luca Daffra | luca.daffra@ichinobrugnatelli.it | +390248193249 |
Employment Law & Litigation | Margherita Covi | margherita.covi@ichinobrugnatelli.it | +390248193249 |
Employment & Labour | Sergio Passerini | sergio.passerini@ichinobrugnatelli.it | +390248193249 |
Employment & Labour, Litigation, Arbitration | Guglielmo Burragato | guglielmo.burragato@ichinobrugnatelli.it | +390248193249 |
Social Security Law & Litigation | Andrea Fortunat | andrea.fortunat@ichinobrugnatelli.it | +390248193249 |
Employment Law & Litigation | Evangelista Basile | evangelista.basile@ichinobrugnatelli.it | +390248193249 |
Labour Law & Litigation | Francesco Antonio La Badessa | francescoantonio.labadessa@ichinobrugnatelli.it | +390248193228 |
Criminal Law | Laura Panciroli | laura.panciroli@ichinobrugnatelli.it | +390248193249 |
Employment & Labour Law | Massimo Pallini | massimo.pallini@ichinobrugnatelli.it | +39 0645439500 |
Lawyer Profiles
Photo | Name | Position | Profile |
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Avv Evangelista Basile | Partner in Studio Legale Ichino Brugnatelli e Associati. Evangelista provides legal advice… | View Profile | |
Avv Francesco Brugnatelli | Partner | View Profile | |
Avv Guglielmo Burragato | Guglielmo Burragato has been a Partner in Studio Legale Ichino Brugnatelli e… | View Profile | |
Avv Francesca Bussotti | Associate Lawyer | View Profile | |
Avv Margherita Covi | Partner of the Firm. Margherita mainly engages with labour law with a… | View Profile | |
Avv Luca Daffra | Partner at Ichino Brugnatelli e Associati, which he joined in 2006. Luca… | View Profile | |
Avv Piergiovanni Mandruzzato | Partner | View Profile | |
Avv Franco Tofacchi | Franco Tofacchi has been a Partner in Studio Legale Ichino Brugnatelli e… | View Profile |
Languages
Italian French English (fluent) SpanishMemberships
International Law Office (ILO) EELA (European Employment Lawyer Association) AGI (Italian Employment Lawyers Association); ABA (American Bar Association); IBA (International Bar Association)International Capabilities
INTERNATIONAL
Ichino Brugnatelli e Associati is based in Milan, a city which has been playing the role of international hub for more than two decades now. In view of this, the firm has worked with clients spanning from foreign companies willing to extend their operations to Italy to Italian multinational companies through a variety of International Groups.
Unique lawyer-client relationship
Since Italian law system is complex and based on some specific cultural bases, global, international, or just foreign clients facing challenges in this country, from the start-up phase and day-by-day business operation to any major decision to be taken related to their business strategy, can rely on the assistance provided by Ichino Brugnatelli e Associati, whose long history is a guarantee of deep insight into Italian law and common practice, as well as sound experience of the relations with its agencies and institutions.
The firm’s globally open approach is reflected in its diverse international client base, which includes multinational companies, financial institutions, and businesses in the fashion, telecommunication, chemical, energy, and banking industries.
In recent years the team dedicated to East Asia has developed an extensive network of relationships in Italy and China, advicing Italian companies in their internationalization processes and assisting Chinese clients, including individuals, with the acquisition of assets – corporate and real estate – in Italy, as well as with the subsequent management thereof: governance, employment and distribution contracts, restructuring, residence permits for qualified workers and executives.
The firm’s lawyers speak a range of languages including English, French, Spanish, and Chinese.
International network
Contrary to many law-firms, Ichino Brugnatelli e Associati is not part of a branded international network, but it has created its own, by frequent contact with prime international colleagues and top-quality law firms, to be ready to give its clients appropriate international referrals to those advisors who are best responding to their needs from time to time.
Diversity
In our organization, creating an inclusive, collaborative, welcoming, and mutually respectful environment for all team members does not contrast the efforts to have internal regulations and policies followed, performance goals reached, and decision made timely We believe, in fact, that our people can share our mission and reach their full potential while being true to themselves. We provide our people with training and tools to help develop their talents, in the awareness that differences matter, and inclusion is a strategy leading not just to engaging workplace culture, but also to innovative performance.
This value is further fostered by our commitment to supporting pro-bono initiatives, providing free assistance to affiliates of “Fight-the-Stroke” in the areas of employment, labour law, and social security law with a special focus on parent-employees’ rights, and regularly donating contributions to Laureus, a charity supporting the young in need through sports initiatives.
Interviews
Margherita Covi, Senior Partner
Ms Margherita Covi, lawyer and Senior Partner of the firm, represents the values and mission of the firm and how all partners and associates, including fee-earners, manage to meet client’s needs despite changing sceneries, demands, and challenges.What do you see as the main points that differentiate [law firm name] from your competitors?
Each of our associates has the chance to work with a small group of partners. This allows them to learn different working styles and different ways to manage the relationship with our clients. Along with dealing with a certain number of partners and with different types of clients (each partner has their own, covering on the whole all productive sectors), comes a more diversified knowledge and practical approach to each issue. This helps our associates to develop a more critical attitude while tackling each legal matter. We strongly believe that a diversified approach is useful in the area of legal services, too, and results in added value to the services that are rendered to our clients. Ideally, the structure of the firm is not a pyramid but more a prism.
Dealing with a certain number of partners also enhances the associates’ ability to develop a more responsible attitude towards their job, as they need to organise their agendas considering requests coming from the various partners they work with.
Which practices do you see growing in the next 12 months? What are the drivers behind that?
The global sanitary crisis due to the coronavirus outbreak is certainly likely to force enterprises to structural changes in HR management. They will have to deal with the sanitary crisis, which entails reverting, whenever possible, to a smart working-based organization versus a more traditional on-site working organization. Our clients will need assistance while implementing the emergency measures adopted by the Government and while addressing new issues in the workplaces. Relationships with trade unions are likely to change into a new model. All the while, during and after the sanitary crisis they will need assistance as far as access to technical tools to address the reduction and suspension of their activities. So practices in both employment and social security areas are certainly bound to grow over the next 12 months.
What’s the main change you’ve made in the firm that will benefit clients?
I am glad to say that over the years together with my fellow partners we have set up the humus for developing a very pleasant work atmosphere within our firm. We carefully assess our associates’ and employees’ performance and have set up a compensation scheme that is rewarding and aimed at the constant achievement of better results. We also take all measures to enhance the training of
both young and more mature lawyers. We believe that setting up a good work environment is the necessary basis to deliver our clients the best possible assistance.
Is technology changing the way you interact with your clients, and the services you can provide them?
Technology has dramatically changed society and human relationships over the last twenty years. The internet has changed the availability and accessibility of data and information throughout the whole world. Managing this change, reverting from a face-to-face relationship to a dematerialized one is only a natural consequence of this process. But it has to be done safeguarding the very special trust which is unique to the lawyer-client relationship.
As regards our judicial system, while the introductory phase of the ordinary judicial proceedings has been made telematic over the last two years, all hearings are still physically held before the judge. Therefore, considerable investments in technological hardware and software ought to be made by the State in order to achieve the complete telematic transformation of the judicial proceedings. Of course, we will be ready when this happens.
Can you give us a practical example of how you have helped a client to add value to their business?
I assisted a publicly owned company in the transition from the application of one national collective agreement to another, more suitable to its specific industry. A very delicate transition, entailing the need to address a certain number of employment-related issues such as the harmonization of employment conditions applied to the workforce, along with the trade unions’ judicial contestation of the operation. In the end the transition turned out to be a successful one and it undoubtedly added value to the company.
Are clients looking for stability and strategic direction from their law firms – where do you see the firm in three years’ time?
Uncertainty about the future scenarios of the economy as a result of the epidemiological crisis affecting not only our country and Europe but the whole world is likely to increase our clients’ need to seek our assistance in the short and in the medium run. On one hand, legislation needs to be interpreted and applied, on the other actions will need to be taken to address the consequences of this global phenomenon. We must be prepared to provide our clients with the necessary tools to face each aspect.
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