Type of assistance: Industrial relations
Sector: Chemical manufacturer
Our law firm drafted a legal memorandum concerning the “Collective dismissal”. We analysed the legal framework pursuant to article 24 of Law no. 223/1991, the collective dismissal procedure and all the relevant phases and timing, the termination costs and the risks linked to the dismissals.
Type of assistance: Top management
Sector: Financial services
Our team ensured a deep study, long-term assistance (approx. 1 year) both during and after the employment relationship in helping and managing (from a labour law perspective) the executive’s reaction against other company executives/directors and board members who failed in maintaining a fair, lawful and non-discriminatory behaviour before the commencement of the employment relationship and ....
Type of assistance: Top management
Sector: Consulting Firms
De Luca & Partners helped the client to understand if the terms and conditions proposed by the Company were in line with the Italian labour law protections for the cases of termination of employment and drafted the text for a successful mutual termination agreement.
Type of assistance: Restructuring
Sector: Private Equity
Our team carried out a comprehensive labour and employment analysis regarding the target company in order to assess the critical elements and potential risks.
Type of assistance: Industrial relations
Sector: Software, technology e telecommunications
The mandate consisted of the organizational need of the client to manage certain redundancies arising from the reorganization of the business. Our team carried out a comprehensive labour and employment consultant activity in order to assess the critical elements and potential risks related to the reorganization and offered potential solutions in order to minimise the ....
Type of assistance: Industrial relations
Sector: Industrial machinery manufacturing
De Luca & Partners presented the Client with various negotiation strategies, offering possible solutions to mitigate the risks involved with the social and employment consequences of the company’s decision and acted for the management in negotiation meetings with the unions and various ministries; and advised on relocating businesses and persons to other jurisdictions.
Type of assistance: Employment & labour Restructuring
Sector: Transportation
De Luca & Partners allowed the client to expand its presence in Italy. De Luca & Partners provided legal advice on preparatory due diligence investigations, along with the resolution of employment and labour issues entailed by the prospected transaction.
Type of assistance: Top management
Sector: Energy
De Luca & Partners allowed the Client to get an indemnity for his dismissal three times higher than the maximum amount provided by Law for the case of unfair dismissals of Executives having his length of service.
Type of assistance: Employment & labour
Sector: Social Security Law
De Luca & Partners analyzed the contents and modalities of previous self-employment relationships elapsed with the Managing Director as well as the social security position of the Managing Director, identifying the risk areas and the possible solutions aimed at reducing the potential liability and operational impact on the Client. Our firm also assisted the Client ....
Type of assistance: Employment & labour
Sector: Publishing books
De Luca & Partners analysed each individual position in order to assess whether the roles were compatible and intervened on the powers and job description of each CEO in order to avoid any kind of social security contribution risks.
Type of assistance: Compliance Privacy (GDPR)
Sector: Marketing & Communication
The support activities included the identification and adoption of technical and organizational measures and the carrying out of a data protection impact assessment with the aim of analyzing the level of risk of personal data processing carried out within the framework of the project. De Luca & Partners also supported the Client in the preparation ....
Type of assistance: Compliance Privacy (GDPR)
Sector: Production of plant extracts
De Luca & Partners has provided legal assistance to the Client in the activities related to the project in order to ensure the compliance with the applicable law on personal data protection. In particular, among other things, mapping the data collected, the processing carried out, the purposes pursued, and the subjects involved through gap analysis ....
Type of assistance: Employment & labour
Sector: Fashion
De Luca & Partners assisted the Client from an employment law standpoint on the analysis of the costs and risks related to the termination of certain employment relationships of a company controlled by the same in Italy, with the simultaneous opening of a representative office in Italy to which the employees of the subsidiary who ....
Type of assistance: Employment & labour
Sector: Web Service
De Luca & Partners assisted the Client regarding the possibility of including a new “CEO” on its staff. To this regard, several hypotheses were examined: i) appointment as a member of the Board of Directors and subsequent granting of the necessary powers, or ii) recruitment as General Manager with executive status; (iii) hiring either as ....
Type of assistance: Labour dispute resolution/Litigation
Sector: Industrial Machinery
After dismissal, the MD sued the Client challenging the dismissal for just cause. De Luca & Partners prepared and filed the defense brief in the interests of their Client in order to obtain a complete rejection of the claims made against it by the claimant.
Type of assistance: Industrial relations
Sector: Global Investment Management Firm
De Luca & Partners has advised the Client in a complex reorganization involving the transfer of a going concern from the Italian branch of the UK Company to the Italian branch of the German Company of the same group. The firm advised the HR Managers who were involved from Italy, Germany, UK and the USA ....
Type of assistance: M&A & extraordinary operations
Sector: Investment management
De Luca & Partners was assigned the task of providing legal advice for the aforementioned acquisition performing accurate Due Diligence on the relevant corporations belonging to the Group in order to assess the critical elements and risks associated in said transaction. De Luca & Partners carried out, on behalf of the Client the following activities: ....
Type of assistance: Industrial relations Restructuring
Sector: Energy
Legal assistance for an internal reorganization, including Union negotiations.
The Client is an Italian branch of the Dutch-British energy, active in the exploration, production, refining and marketing of oil and natural gas, and the production of chemical products. De Luca & Partners assisted the Client with an international reorganization and restructuring program, aimed at triggering a reorganization managed through the negotiation with the National ....
Type of assistance: Compliance Privacy (GDPR) News
Sector: Pharma, Healthcare e Medical Equipment
De Luca & Partners has provided legal assistance to the Client regarding the development of several dedicated apps for the healthcare sector aimed at offering support and program monitoring for the medical treatment of patients suffering from specific pathologies in order to ensure full project compliance with the applicable legislation for personal data protection. The ....
Type of assistance: Compliance Privacy (GDPR) Employment & labour
Sector: Distribution of Consumer Goods
De Luca & Partners assisted the Client in their continuing growth with acquisitions of other companies and going concerns in the Italian market. The scope of work usually involved primarily employment law and related issues, and also covered very sensitive GDPR matters due to the Industry business model. Within the structure of the transactions, the ....
Type of assistance: Restructuring
Sector: visual content and photography
Our firm assisted the client in restructuring its Italian business unit through the rationalisation of professional profiles. In particular, the Firm dealt with the feasibility analysis of the above mentioned operation, defining its timing, identifying the areas of risk and possible solutions to reduce the impact of the rationalization of resources and activities both on ....
Type of assistance: Top management
Sector: Asset Management
Assistance to a manager of an Italian independent asset management company.
Our firm assisted the manager in the setting of each clause relating to the extrajudicial agreement about the termination of the employment relationship between the manager and an asset management company. Signing of the termination agreement between the parties following the termination of the employment relationship of the client, as manager of the Italian company.
Type of assistance: Top management
Sector: Wine producer
Negotiation and execution of the exit agreement of a managing director.
Our firm gave its assistance to a managing director in the negotiation and execution of the agreement regulating his exit as CEO of an Italian company of an international Group which operates as a leading company in wine sector both in Italy and abroad. The settlement agreement also regulated the CEO’s exit from the Boards ....
Type of assistance: Restructuring
Sector: Industrial Engineering
During the acquisition of a Group company, we assisted the company (i) in the trade union consultation procedure pursuant to art. 47 of Law 428/90 (ii) to handle the integration between the two companies with particular reference to the harmonization of the collective agreements applied by the companies, considering that, following the business transaction, the ....
Type of assistance: Restructuring
Sector: Digital Technologies
The client was purchased entirely by a company leader in Italy in the Gift Card market. The intervention of our firm was requested, on the one hand, to manage 70% of the transfer of individual employment contracts from the client to the company and, on the other, to manage the termination of employment relationships with ....
Type of assistance: Social security law
Sector: Constructions and materials
Assistance and consultancy to a company leader in the market of high-performance glass.
Our firm provided the client with the assistance and consultancy concerning: implementation of smart working, giving advice on the relevant discipline and application; absence from work to be treated as vacation leave or period of illness or quarantine with active surveillance (“quarantena con sorveglianza attiva”) or permanently under house trust with active surveillance (“permanenza domiciliare ....
Type of assistance: Top management
Sector: Industria Dispositivi medici
The law firm managed the negotiation process for the non-conflict resolution of the dispute that arose following the dismissal of the Client. In particular, were significant, the long-term managerial relationship that the Client had with the Company as well as the important corporate offices held by him over the years in favor of the Company ....
Type of assistance: Restructuring
Sector: Global investment firm/Private Equity
The law firm assisted the client within the acquisition of a target Group. In particular, our firm analyzed all the labor issues related to all the companies of the target Group providing the client with all the necessary assistance during the due diligence phase either after the acquisition. In detail, the firm assisted the client ....
Type of assistance: M&A & extraordinary operations
Sector: Digital Technologies
In particular, the Firm dealt with the feasibility analysis of the above mentioned operation, defining its timing, identifying the areas of risk and possible solutions to reduce the impact of the rationalization of resources and activities both on the Client and on the workers. In respect, the Firm drafted the individual dismissal letters, negotiated with ....
Type of assistance: Employment & labour
Sector: Software, technology e telecommunications
Our firm supported the Client in the considerations and analysis of the economic effects deriving from the redistribution to Managers of the savings generated by the exercise of the option that allows Managers to switch from the social security system called “Sistema misto” to the so-called “Sistema Contributivo”. The analysis also took into account the ....
Type of assistance: Labour dispute resolution/Litigation
Sector: Software, technology e telecommunications
The litigation has been based on the representation that the self-employee has carried out the duties assigned as an employee and not as a self-employee.As consequence the self-employee has claimed for (i) the reclassification of the consultancy agreement into an employment relationship with status of Dirigente status; (ii) the unlawfulness of the dismissal and the ....
Type of assistance: Social security law
Sector: Transportation
Litigation before the Labour Court.
De Luca & Partners assisted a private foreign airline and its legal representative in the proceedings before the Varese Court introduced by the latter, against the inspection report issued by the INPS and the ITL, concerning the alleged illegitimate secondment of no. 31 employees hired in Spain (place of the Company registered office) and seconded ....
Type of assistance: M&A & extraordinary operations Restructuring
Sector: Pharmaceutical
This case involved analysing and conducting due diligence on all agency and distribution agreements entered into with the target, as well as on employment relationships with employees.
Type of assistance: M&A & extraordinary operations Restructuring
Sector: Architect and design
The Firm prepared a feasibility study on the foregoing operation, defining timescales, identifying risk areas and possible solutions to be implemented to reduce the impact of the rationalisation of resources and activities for both the client Company and the workers. In that case, the Firm also prepared letters to initiate the procedure set out in ....
Type of assistance: M&A & extraordinary operations
Sector: Life Science and Clinical Diagnostics
The Firm prepared a feasibility study on the foregoing operation, defining timescales, identifying risk areas and possible solutions to be implemented to reduce the impact of the rationalisation of resources and activities for both the client Company and the workers. In that case, the Firm also prepared letters to initiate the procedure set out in ....
Type of assistance: Industrial relations
Sector: Home Decor
The Firm has assisted the company during consultation with the trade union organizations regarding the concession of the Extraordinary Wages Guarantee Fund for discontinuation of business activities, which ended on 7 July 2015, and during the subsequent submission of the application to the Ministry of Labor. Following admission of the company to the arrangement with ....
Type of assistance: Agency agreement
Sector: Tertiary
The Firm has assisted the Client in the drafting of the new agency agreement that the Client asked to prepare in the light of the current and complex needs of the Company.
Type of assistance: Employment & labour Labour dispute resolution/Litigation
Sector: Industrial Engineering
The firm assisted the Client in the dismissal of its General Manager and his removal from the office of Managing Director. The Firm also assisted the Company in the attempt to reach an out-of-court settlement following the executive’s appeal. The Firm was later instructed to assist the Company in the proceeding brought by the executive ....
Type of assistance: Labour dispute resolution/Litigation
Sector: Architect and design
The Firm has assisted the Company for many years in all issues connected with labour law. As part of its assignment, the Firm has assisted the Client in a number of cases of employee disciplinary dismissal for thefts committed at the Company’s premises. The Firm also successfully assisted the client in a legal action brought ....
Type of assistance: Employment & labour
Sector: Designer Furniture
The firm assisted the Client in the process aimed at terminating the employment relationships with its former general manager. The Firm analyzed the feasibility of the dismissal for objective reasons of the manager, identified the risk areas and the possible solutions aimed at reducing the impact on the Client. In this respect, the Firm also ....
Type of assistance: M&A & extraordinary operations Restructuring
Sector: Energy
Thus, the transaction led to acquiring the exclusive control of the Company and consolidates its position in energy services. Our law firm was assigned the task to provide support in the aforementioned acquisition, performing accurate Due Diligence about the Target Company in order to assess the critical elements and risks associated to said transaction and ....
Type of assistance: M&A & extraordinary operations
Sector: Pharmaceutical
The operation involved analysing and solving complex issues associated with contract working and manpower supply, which were decisive in the operation’s feasibility study. Of particular importance, in this case, were the regulations applying to fixed term contracts and the derogations from the quantity restrictions set in the CCNL collective bargaining agreement during the negotiations at ....
Type of assistance: M&A & extraordinary operations Restructuring
Sector: Digital Marketing
In addition to the Italian branch, the operation as a whole involved branches in the following countries: Great Britain, The Netherlands, Germany, France, Spain, Denmark, Poland, Israel, Australia, Republic of China, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, USA, Canada and the Philippines and entailed a significant level of coordination between the professionals involved in the different jurisdictions.
Type of assistance: Labour dispute resolution/Litigation
Sector: Digital technologies
Our firm has triggered a counter action against the former CEO to achieve compensation for damages suffered as a consequence to the misconducts attributed to him which led to his revocation and dismissal.
Type of assistance: Agency agreement
Sector: Designer Furniture
In particular, the firm analyzed the feasibility of each termination of the aforementioned contracts, identifying the risk areas and the possible solutions aimed at reducing the potential liability and operational impact on the Client. Our firm also assisted Kartell facing the litigation which followed the reorganization in certain single cases.
Type of assistance: Agency agreement
Sector: Smart Safety, Lighting & Home Appliances
In addition to assistance and advice on ordinary and extraordinary labour law matters, the Firm has assisted the Client in the definition of master agreements for agents, as well as in the resolution of all related issues, preparing the associated agreements, redefining responsibilities (area, products and commission) and solving issues related to the management of ....
Type of assistance: Employment & labour
Sector: Automotive
Preparing the master contract and the implementing documentation associated with the relationship between companies of the group at global level (Germany, USA, Asia, etc.), drafting service agreements and, where appropriate, agreements relating to the secondment of executives as part of the combined management of intercompany services, including interaction with the legal affairs offices of the ....
Type of assistance: Top management
Sector: Financial Services
Legal assistance and advice concerning the disciplinary action against the executive as well as the legal assistance carried out during the complex negotiation concerning the definition of the terms and conditions of the settlement agreement. The negotiation of the dispute with the Company has been complicated to handle as far as the company was strictly ....
