Failla & Partners

Failla&Partners is founded on the 35+ years of experience of Founding and Managing Partner Luca Failla and the historical team he has worked with for numerous years.

For decades, they have been providing counsel on a wide range of people management issues that companies must face each day – in and out of court - from acquisitions to agency agreements, contracts to consultancy, disciplinary procedures and dismissals, executive benefits to European works councils, immigration to industrial relations, legal opinions to litigation, management models to mergers, social security to strategy, reorganizations to restructurings and so much more!

Of note is the counsel team our team provides to multinationalsandforeign Clients(Companies and International Funds) in all areas ofItalian Employment and Labour Law— both throughout the country and internationally. Failla&Partners supports Clients in allday-to-day activities, including:

• Sensitive M&As reorganizations, outsourcing, workplace restructuring processes and lay-offs;
• Sensitive Litigations procedures,
• Consultancy and managingdisciplinary procedures
• Handlingdismissals,internal investigations, andwhistleblowing
• Know-howandunfair competition protection;
• Data privacy
• Draftingemployment contracts, company policies, andethic codes
• Immigrationmatters and much more.

Today we find the close relationship between employers and their legal counsel has never been so important as together they survey a new landscape of work and productivity – to ensure business continuity and safeguarding employment where possible. It is in this spirit that Failla&Partners has established itself as a new Italian employment and labor law boutique with a solid foundation of work - for work - behind it.

Failla&Partners anchors its strength on decades of experience advising both national and international organizations and executives on a full range of workplace matters and business strategy – in the good times and the bad.

Recent Accolades

• Law Firm of the Year | Retail Employment – TopLegal Industry Awards 2025
• Innovation & Smart Working Law Firm of the Year – TopLegal Awards 2025
• Italian Employment Law – Chambers Europe 2025
• Eminent National Boutique – IEL International Employment Lawyer 2024
• Italian Employment Law – Legal 500 EMEA 2024
• Italian Employment Law – Chambers Europe 2024
• Italian Employment Law – Best Lawyers 2024
• Italian Labor Litigation & Advisory – Leaders League 2024

What They Say:

• “A pioneer in organizational transformation, Failla&Partners has introduced innovative and cutting-edge work models that improve productivity and employee satisfaction.” – TopLegal Awards 2025

• “The firm offers precision andstrong expertise in labor law, as well as excellent negotiaton and communication skills.” – Client 2025

• “Failla&Partners has the ability to approach a case at a variety of levels and make convincing arguments before judges.” – Client 2025

• “Exceptional knowledge, associated with a long and successful experience, as well as an innate capability of the founder to share solutions in an easy way.” – Client 2024

• “‘Responsive, competent and accurate.” – Client 2024

• “The personal dedication we receive is noteworthy. We also appreciate the innovative approach to legal questions and the exhaustive care that has been brought to our cases. The legal position is based on layers of argument which makes our positions robust and intellectually convincing.” – Client 2023

• “The care we receive, the personal engagement, the intellectual dialogue. The team has come to know us and we have constructed an authentic relationship. We have been able to engage in a back-and-forth relationship that we feel has given us exceptional representation.” – Client 2023

Languages

• English
• French
• Italian

Memberships

• International Bar Association (IBA)
• American Bar Association (ABA)
• European Employment Lawyers Association (EELA)
• The Association of Italian Employment Lawyers (AGI)
• The Association of Italian Law Firms (ASLA)

How can we help you today?

• Agency
• Corporate governance
• Cross-border
• Data protection
• Dematerialization
• Dismissal procedures
• Diversity
• Employee due diligence
• Employment contracts
• Executive benefits
• Expatriates
• European works councils
• Government incentive schemes
• Health and safety in the workplace
• Immigration
• Individual and collective dismissals
• Industrial relations
• Investigations
• Labor court representation
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Organizational models
• Pensions
• Privacy
• Secondments
• Staff benefits
• Strategy
• Social security litigation
• Reorganizations
• Restructurings
• Risk management
• Transfers of business
• Trade union negotiations
• Smart working
• Staff handbooks
• Strategy
• Supreme court
• Whistleblowing

… and so much more!

www.faillapartners.com