
French law for Italian companies, since the beginning. The law firm GASLINI AVOCATS has been advising and assisting Italian companies in their activities in France for more than twenty years in the areas of corporate law, labor law and commercial law.
A specific and targeted expertise. All of the lawyers and collaborators have a double educational and/or professional background between France and Italy and are bilingual. The firm is organized by areas of expertise and experience: each area of French business law (corporate law, labor law, commercial law, compliance) is handled by a dedicated team of lawyers.
More than 20 years of legal experience in Italy-France relations. Since 2001 the firm has developed a global expertise that enables it to offer global consulting activity for Italian companies doing business in France, whether they sell goods or services from Italy, whether they employ employees in France, whether they have subsidiaries in France. In addition, the firm’s lawyers assist clients in the pre-litigation and proceedings before all French civil, commercial and labor courts.
A large family. For more than twenty years, the firm’s lawyers have dedicated themselves Italian companies, sharing the same values of excellence, initiative and team spirit of their clients.
- Negotiation and drafting of agreements concerning the transfer of shares, business or part of business
- Due diligence
- Letters of intent, joint ventures, shareholders’ agreements
- Incorporation of companies and Corporate law formalities
- Company restructuring
- Corporate compliance, Privacy and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
- Intra-group agreements (cash management, transfer price, tax consolidations)
- Establishment, management and termination of employment contracts
- Business restructuring and/or reorganization
- Collective redundancies, transfer of business and management of the relationships with trade unions
- Assistance in negotiation with employees’ representative bodies and for the company welfare
- Secondment of employees (national and international)
- Labor law assistance related to M&A operations, including due diligence
- Outsourcing contracts
- Disciplinary codes, policies and internal regulations
- Non-compete and non-disclosure agreements, retention agreements etc…
- Negotiation and signing of service contracts and sub-service contracts
- Temporary joint ventures
- Direct payment procedures
- Contractual amendments during the course of the relationship
- Assistance with the execution of the contract and the acceptance of works
- Agency contracts
- Selective distribution, exclusive licence, franchising
- Commercial lease (boutiques, shopping malls, industrial facilities)
- Sales agreements, general sales conditions, services contracts
- Civil and commercial proceedings before all the French judicial authorities,
- National and international arbitration (ICC and other bodies)
- Application of national and European international private law, conflicts of law and of jurisdiction
- Recognition and enforcement of foreign judgements and arbitration decisions in France
- Statement of claims, action of claw back and restitution
- Insolvency procedures in France
- Advisory in goods and assets acquisitions in the context of insolvency procedures in France
- Warning and injunctions procedures
- Urgency and enforcement proceedings in France
- Judicial debt collection procedures in France
The firm assists for more than twenty years a clientele exclusively composed of Italian companies and Italian groups of companies operating in the following sectors:
- Engineering and metallurgy industries
- Chemical and pharmaceutical industries
- Food industry
- Manufacturing industry
- Construction and structural engineering industry
- ICT – Media and Communication
- Fashion
- Retail and distribution, luxury

Attorney at the Paris Bar
Attorney at the Milan Bar
m.gaslini@gasliniavocats.eu
Maximilien GASLINI DUMONTIER has a dual nationality both Italian and French. He was admitted to the Paris Bar (2000) and to the Milan Bar (2003). For twenty years he has been advising Italian companies in their projects and business in France. He mainly practices in the field of corporate law and restructuring, extraordinary transactions, employment law, trade agreements and he took part in several transactions related to industrial groups in France and Europe. Through this important experience, he has developed a global expertise that allows him to offer clients an overview of the most complex transactions. He has collaborated with the Faculty of Law of the University of Milan teaching in legal French courses, and he is also a lecturer in French law at the New International Business Institute (Promos – Milan Chamber of Commerce). He is a frequent speaker at conferences and seminars on international corporate and employment law and he’s been granted of the Finance Monthly award ‘Deal Maker of the Year’ for the M&A transactions followed.
He works in French, Italian and English.

Attorney at the Paris Bar
Attorney at the Milan Bar
a.bonazzi@gasliniavocats.eu
Angelica BONAZZI is member of the Milan Bar (2016) and of the Paris Bar (2024). She advises Italian and French companies in day-by-day human resources consulting, contracts, restructuring procedures, collective redundancies and individual dismissals, and transnational secondments. She has developed a remarkable experience in labor law, carrying out several due diligences related to acquisitions of French companies by Italian companies, dealing with risk assessment connected to employment law and collective labor law, assisting clients in their relationships with trade unions during the negotiation of collective company agreements. She graduated in Law with honors at the University of Milan with a graduate labor law thesis entitled “Collective redundancy in Italian and French law” and she collaborated with the Labor Law Institute of this University.
She works in Italian, French and English.

Attorney at the Milan Bar
l.regazzoni@gasliniavocats.eu
Laura REGAZZONI is member of the Milan Bar since 2014. She mainly practices in the field of transnational labor law supporting Italian groups of companies in the management of all labor law issues relating to French subsidiaries. She assists clients in individual labor law, providing advice in the drafting, management and termination of employment contracts under French law, and in collective labor law, both on aspects involving relations with trade unions and assisting in the company reorganization procedures with the resulting collective redundancies. She also practices in the field of international mobility procedures for Italian companies seconding their employees in France in the context of intra-group secondments and provisions of services. She graduated in Law at the University of Milan in 2011 with honors and she completed her education at the Labor Law Firm Toffoletto De Luca Tamajo in Milan before joining the firm in 2013.
She works in Italian, French and English.

Attorney at the Milan Bar
s.picciano@gasliniavocats.eu
Sonia PICCIANO is a member of the Milan Bar since 2022. She mainly practices in the field of labor law and especially in the international labor mobility procedures and secondment for Italian groups and foreign companies seconding their employees in France. She provides legal assistance in the day-by-day consulting to companies in the field of individual and collective labor law and assists clients in contractual matters, on aspects relating to the drafting, management and termination of employment contracts. She also practices in corporate reorganization procedures, collective redundancies and individual dismissal procedures. She graduated with great marks in Law at the University of Bologna in 2017, as part of a double degree course in Italian and French law, getting a degree in Law from the University of Bologna, a Licence en droit and Master 2 in French Law – specialization French law-Italian law – from the University of Paris West – Nanterre in 2017, where she carried out part of her studies.
She works in Italian, French and English.

Attorney at the Milan Bar
al.palmieri@gasliniavocats.eu
Anna Laura PALMIERI is a member of the Milan Bar since 2022. She mainly practices in commercial and corporate law in the field of international relations between France and Italy and in particular of business investments made in France and in Europe by numerous industrial groups. She provides legal assistance in the context of extraordinary corporate transactions, as sale and acquisition of shareholdings, business or part of business and incorporation of companies in France. She also practices in the field of international agreements, providing legal advice in the conclusion and execution of agency, service contracts, distribution and supply contracts. She graduated with great marks in Law at the University of Bologna in 2020, as part of a double degree course in Italian and French law, getting a degree in Law from the University of Bologna, a Licence en Droit and a Master 2 in French Law – specialization French law -Italian law – from the University of Paris Ouest Nanterre in 2020, where she carried out part of her studies.
She works in Italian, French and English.
The firm permanently cooperates with several industry associations, Chambers of Commerce and professional associations in the field of consultancy related legal aspects and the processes of internationalization of companies in France.
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