Profile
Work Department
Position
Barbara Grasselli is Founding Partner at Zambelli & Partners.
Career
Barbara Grasselli has a significant experience in employment law and industrial relations. She advises domestic and foreign clients in implementing and managing personnel restructuring plans, in dealing with business crisis situations as well as in procedures involving the relocation of business. She assists clients in labour-law issues over both the pre-litigation and the litigation stage. She has a wide experience in agency relationships, thus assisting clients in drafting agency contracts as well as in managing the relevant litigation.
Barbara is co-author of several books on employment law and trade union issues. The most recent of these are Crisi Aziendale e Rapporto di Lavoro (Company Crisis and the Employment Relationship) (collection of five books; Il Sole 24 Ore, 2018), which - on June 21, 2019 - has been awarded as the Best Book on Employment Law by the Labour Consultants Association of Milan; Diritto Sindacale - Le Relazioni Industriali dopo il Jobs Act (Trade Union Law - Industrial Relations after the Jobs Act) (Il Sole 24 Ore, 2015); and Diritto Sindacale (Trade Union Law and Industrial Relations) (Il Sole 24 Ore, fifth edition, 2012).
She cooperates with Il Sole 24 Ore, thus being the author of several legal writings on all the employment-related and agency issues, which are published on the main legal reviews of such editor, including the well-known Guida al Lavoro.
Barbara has been ranked in band 3 of the Chambers Europe - Employment ranking for 9 years.
She has been recognised as Best Lawyers in Italy (Labour and Employment) in the 2024 edition and as Recommended lawyer in WWL ranking - Labour, Employment & Benefits 2023.
She has also been awarded as Lawyer of the Year - Rising Star at the Legalcommunity Labour Awards in 2015.
Languages
Memberships
- Member of AGI, Italian Employment Lawyers Association (AGI - Avvocati Giuslavoristi Italiani - http://www.giuslavoristi.it/)
- Member of AIDP, Italian HR Managers Association (AIDP - Associazione Italiana per la Direzione del Personale - http://www.aidp.it/)
- Member of EELA (European Employment Lawyers Association - http://www.eela.org/)
Education
- Degree in Law, University of Milan, 1996
- Italy, 2001 (Milan Bar Association)
- Italian Supreme Court, 2015
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Testimonials
Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.
- 'Complete and effective answers to company requests.'
- 'Angelo Zambelli combines competence and passion for labour law (with peaks of extreme excellence in union law).'
- ‘Availability, professionalism, and effectiveness.’
- 'The firm has excellent employment lawyers who are expert and responsive.'
- ‘Barbara Grasselli has a good understanding of our business; takes a pragmatic approach; and is good at explaining verbally, in clear and uncomplicated terms, the local legal position.’
- ‘Labour law-specialised firm with a large, senior team.’
- ‘Angelo Zambelli is a senior labour lawyer, strong in negotiations.’
Key clients
- Caffitaly System S.p.A.
- EXI S.p.A.
- Posco ITPC S.p.A.
- Konecta Italia S.p.A.
- Termomeccanica Pompe S.p.A.
- Ital Brokers S.p.A.
- Engel & Völkers Italia S.r.l.
- Deutsche Bank S.p.A.
- Autostrada del Brennero S.p.A.
- Pietro Fiorentini S.p.A.
- Guy Carpenter
- MAG Group
- Piaggio & C. S.p.A.
- L’Oréal Italia S.p.A.
- ENI S.p.A.
- UBS Europe SE - Succursale Italia
- Stiga S.p.A.
- Astrazeneca S.p.A.
- Theramex HQ UK Limited
- China Construction Bank (Europe) S.A.