Luca Failla is the Founding and Managing Partner of Failla&Partners.

His practice focuses on providing assistance to national and international businesses in all areas of Italian employment and labor law – including providing counsel on Italian employment litigation, executive contract negotiations, directors and officer’s liability, competition protection, personnel reduction, corporate reorganizations, outsourcing, trade union negotiations, privacy, employment contracts, dismissals, pension schemes … and more recently workforce management when businesses are faced with unforeseen periods of distress – such as will the recent pandemic and threat of an energy crisis.

Of note, over the past 15 years Luca successfully managed many of the most sensitive and complicated employment and labor matters in favor of Italian and Multinational companies. A number of these set new legal precedents and were also extensively covered in the national press.

He is regularly recognized for his Italian employment law counsel by the most important independent legal research guides such as: Chambers Europe, Legal 500, Who’s Who Legal, Best Lawyers, LegalCommunity, and TopLegal among many others.

Clients have recently revealed to these independent legal research guides:

"Luca Failla is one of the most renowned Labor Lawyers in Italy and can boast a track record of absolute quality in litigation. He recently followed one of the most important labor litigations in the country" - 2024
"Luca Failla is an outstanding professional. His attention to all details, and meticoulous approach to the facts, along with a long legal experience in the labour world and the capability to reassure his clients make you feel him more as a colleague than a consultant " - 2024
"Luca Failla is excellent and his thoughtfulness and defence of our position has been critical." - 2024
"Luca is very sophisticated and always available and ready to guide his client." - 2024
“Luca Failla: by far the best labour lawyer in Italy. Serious, prepared, with the ability to put various points into a framework.” – 2023
“Luca Failla: well connected and a very respected name in the sector” - 2023
“The founder and managing partner has an incredible competence, enthusiasm, passion and drive.” – 2023
"Luca is a highly competent lawyer and a partner in strategic choices." – 2023
"He offers an intellectual but also pragmatic and strong approach." - 2023

Career

Luca Failla is a name many in the industry will be familiar with as in 2006 he became a Founding & Managing Partner of the notable Italian employment law boutique LABLAW. He was also one of the founding members of the international employment law network L&E GLOBAL. Also of note is the alliance between LABLAW and Deloitte Legal in Italy which Luca spearheaded in 2020.

In 2022 Luca Failla established Failla&Partners with a team of professionals who worked alongside of him for decades – ensuring a continuation of the high-level counsel clients received in the past continues also in the future.

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)

About Failla&Partners

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

For decades, together, they have been providing counsel on a wide range of people management issues that companies must face each day – from general administrative items such as company policies, health and safety in the workplace, employment contracts etc. - to more complex matters such as collective bargaining agreements, European Works Councils, and collective dismissals.

In the good times and the bad – Failla&Partners can advise both national and international organizations with operations in Italy on the legal aspects of workforce management and business strategy.

What clients say:

"The team is very competent and well-organised in order to provide the client with a wide range of services. The consultancy is precise and open to any kind of discussion. Every component of the team is very business oriented and is capable of connecting legal aspects to the corporate needs." - 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.” – 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.” – 2023

International

Failla&Partners team of professionals has 35+ years of experience exclusively dedicated to the practice of Italian employment and labor law – and have throughout the years been regularly engaged in, and also led, numerous cross-border matters working closely with human resource professionals and legal counsel in foreign jurisdictions.

The team, fluent also in English and French, has a well-established network of top-level professional employment and labor law contacts that they can turn to when clients require counsel beyond the Italian shores.