Case History

Stories of day to day management, but also reorganizations, restructuring and M&A of any size in all industry sectors.

Case History

Some case history by De Luca & Partners

Type of assistance: Industrial relations

Sector: Chemical manufacturer

Object

De Luca & Partners is assisting the Client, a renowned Italian chemical manufacturer, with a planned reorganization process, aimed at shutting down a department and dismiss employees.

Summary of matter

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

Object

De Luca & Partners represented the high-profile female executive employed in the financial sector against the company she worked for over the latter’s alleged culminated discrimination and sexist behaviour. The executive was fired and, with the assistance of our firm, challenged the dismissal, deeming it null, unlawful, and retaliatory.

Summary of matter

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

Object

De Luca & Partners assisted a Partner of one of the most prestigious management consulting firms with negotiating the terms and conditions of the termination of his employment relationship with one of the Global Leaders in the field of consultancy services to top management. 

Summary of matter

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

Type of assistance: Industrial relations

Sector: Software, technology e telecommunications

Object

De Luca & Partners assisted one of the world’s leading providers of software with the collective terminations resulting from the reorganization of the company due to a steady but gradual decline in its turnover since 2019.

Summary of matter

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 ....