A myth shared by many multinational employers holds Italy as a quite difficult jurisdiction to be an employer. As often happens, the myth has some true facts behind it. Italian Commercial Agency Law is not intuitive for a foreign investor. Join Alessia Raimondo, Lawyer, Baker & McKenzie for a discussion of:

• The EU Agency Directive
• main principles of the EU Agency Directive;
• territorial application the EU Agency Directive. 
• The Italian Civil Code and the Economic Collective Agreements
• overview of local rules regulating an agency relationship: duration; exclusivity; non-compete; commissions; obligations of the parties;
• termination and termination indemnities. 
• Choice of the applicable law
• choice of local law or of a foreign law;
• application of US law to agents performing their promoting activity in Italy;
• public order provisions or mandatory rules;
• main local and European case law.
• Jurisdiction
• choice of: a local Court, or a foreign Court, or a foreign arbitrator.

Alessia Raimondo, Lawyer, Baker & McKenzie

 
Alessia Raimondo is a lawyer professionally qualified under the laws of Italy (enrolled with the Lawyers’ Bar of Milan), with eleven years experience in on all areas of labor and employment law, commercial agency, employment litigation and immigration law. She joined Baker & McKenzie in October 2000, after a first period of post-graduation apprenticeship in the practice of law (mainly in labor law and in international commercial law). Alessia Raimondo is member of the Employment practice Group and assists clients in all aspects of Labour & Employment, Commercial (Agency) and immigration law. Her main areas of practice include: drafting of different types of employment and consultancy agreements; expertise in employment relationships with top managers; drafting of non-competition and non-solicitation agreements; disciplinary procedures; employee’s intellectual property rights; consultancy regarding the main aspects of employees’ management; individual dismissals; collective dismissals procedures; restructuring procedures; negotiation of termination of employment by mutual consent at all levels of employment and especially with top managers; revision and implementation of variable compensation/bonus plans, of flexible working time plans, of ethic codes and of different types of company policies; legal issues connected to transfer of business; social security planning; agency/sales representative relationships; immigration planning from a labour, tax and social security perspective; relocation; expatriates; secondments; family permits; management of judicial and out-of-court disputes concerning labour and agency issues. She has acquired consolidated experience in dealing with multinational corporations and cross-border issues and disputes.