
Partner
marcello.giustiniani@belex.com
Main office: Milan
Focus Team: Corporate Governance, Digital Innovation
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
- Member of the Board as Executive Director (co-managing partner 2013-2018)
- Member of the Corporate Governance 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
At the IX edition of the TopLegal Awards he was crowned Managing partner of the year together with Stefano Simontacchi
The “Chambers & Partners” and “The Legal 500 EMEA” international legal directories list Marcello Giustiniani among the leading labour law experts 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

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