FAILLA & Partners

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.