Expertise

• Employment law, with particular focus on:
  • management of relationships with senior management
  • remuneration of senior management in regulated sectors
  • corporate crises, including mass redundancies
  • corporate reorganisation for extraordinary transactions
  • assistance with trade-union negotiations
  • social security contributions
  • international mobility of employees
  • competition and confidentiality
  • litigation
  • corporate governance

• Foreign languages: English, French

Background

• Former member of the Board as Executive Director (co-managing partner 2013-2018)
• Member of the Corporate Governance Focus Team
• Member of the Restructuring & Insolvency Focus Team
• Member of the Sports Law Focus Team
• Member of the Innovation and Digital Transformation (strategic support)
• Partner since BonelliErede was founded
• Member of the Board of Directors of beLab S.p.A. (a public limited company wholly owned by BonelliErede) since July 2020
• Former partner at a Milan-based boutique employment law firm

Ranking and Awards

The Chambers & Partners and The Legal 500 EMEA international legal directories list Marcello as an expert in labour law in Italy.

Testimonials

“He is widely regarded as a top player in the market and a phenomenal labour lawyer.”

(Chambers & Partners)

Qualifications

• Professor of employment law at the Milan Bar association’s forensic school
• Lecturer at the advanced school of labour, trade-union and social welfare law run by the Associazione Giuslavoristi Italiani, of which Marcello is a founding member
• Member of the Italian Bar, admitted to practice clients before the Italian Supreme Court (Corte di Cassazione)
• Member of the Italian Journalists’ Association
• Law degree from the University of Milan