Livio Bossotto
Employment Counsel
Milan
Livio Bossotto
Employment Counsel
Milan
Contact Details
Livio heads the Italian Employment & Benefits team. He specialises in employment law, advising major corporates and financial institutions on both contentious and non-contentious matters including individual dismissals, termination of executives' contracts, agency agreements, expatriation procedures and secondments as well as company restructurings, mass layoff and reorganisations processes.
Livio has worked in Italy and abroad on employment issues connected to due diligence activities, private equity deals, joint-ventures and commercial agreements. He is a member of the European Lawyers Association (EELA), the International Bar Association (IBA) and the Italian Employment Lawyers Association (AGI).
Expertise
Practices
Qualifications
Professional
Admitted as avvocato, Italy, 2005
Academic
Summer School Beijing-London School of Economics, 2007
J.D, Università degli Studi di Torino, 2001
Experience highlights
Ball Corporation, a supplier of metal packaging to the beverage, food, personal care and household products industries, in relation to its restructuring process, including the closure of its Italian facility located in San Martino Sulla Marruccina (near Chieti) and the related dismissal of 70 employees.
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Italia, the home video distribution business of the Twentieth Century Fox Group, in relation to the reorganisation of the Italian company and the resulting workforce reduction.
EG Group on the employment related aspects of its acquisition of the going concern consisting of approx. 1,200 Esso branded service stations located throughout Italy from Esso Italiana, an ExxonMobil Group company. Through this acquisition, EG Group will enter the Italian market for the first time.
ESAB Saldatura, an international company active in the welding consumable and equipment sector, on the employment law aspects connected to the transfer of the Welding business branch as a going concern from Sandvik Italia. The local Italian purchase was part of a global transaction under which ESAB purchased the welding wire business from Sandvik Materials Technology.
Expertise
Practices
Qualifications
Professional
Admitted as avvocato, Italy, 2005
Academic
Summer School Beijing-London School of Economics, 2007
J.D, Università degli Studi di Torino, 2001
Pro-bono experience
- Advising the human rights charity Save the Children on domestic legislation.
- Advising the human rights charity Hope and Homes for Children on international and domestic legislation.
Recognition
Clients describe him as knowledgeable and able to negotiate and understand the matter from all sides.
Chambers Europe 2021 (Employment and Benefits: Italy)
Livio Bossotto is very skilled in providing practical and easily implementable solutions.
Chambers Europe 2020 (Employment and Benefits: Italy)
He is always very good at finding a solution to any problems we bring to his attention.
Chambers Europe 2018 (Employment and Benefits: Italy)
Awards
Best Practice Advisory
Legalcommunity Labour Awards, 2020
Labour Lawyer of the Year - Rising Star
Legalcommunity Labour Awards, 2016
Published work
- Several Articles in OGL, Guida al Lavoro
- Several Articles in Quotidiano Giuridico
- Contribution to the 3rd edition of a publication about bankruptcy and insolvency, In Pratica, Wolters Kluwer
- Italian chapter of the "GIR: Data Privacy and Transfer in Investigations" (2020)
News & insights
News: 08 APRIL 2021
Livio Bossotto promoted to partner at Allen & Overy
Allen & Overy has announced the promotion of Livio Bossotto to partner, effective from 1 May 2021. His appointment is part of the partner promotions across Allen & Overy’s global network with 30 new…
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Publications: 24 NOVEMBER 2020
In the third in our series of webinars, members of Allen & Overy’s Global Employment team discussed the significant issues and challenges that employers need to prioritise in relation to managing and…
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Publications: 17 NOVEMBER 2020
In the second of our series of webinars, members of Allen & Overy’s Global Employment team discussed the significant issues and challenges that employers need to prioritise in relation to managing and…
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Publications: 06 NOVEMBER 2020
Members of Allen & Overy’s Global Employment team discussed the significant issues and challenges that employers need to prioritise in relation to managing and supporting their workforce as we…
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