
Avv.
Andrea Nicolò
Stanchi
Avv. Andrea Nicolò Stanchi
Partner from 1996.
He graduated in Law from the University of Milan in 1988 with top marks and is Managing Partner of the firm. He has been a member of the Milan Bar Association since 1995 and is admitted to appear before the Italian Supreme Court.
He has collaborated with the chair of Trade Union Law at the University of Milan; over the years he has been a regular lecturer in various courses and Masters’ programmes held in a number of Italian universities (IULM, University of Milan, Catholic University, Bicocca University, University of Venice, Polytechnic of Milan).
He has collaborated with the Pension Forum project of Bocconi University, Milan; from 2004 to 2011 he lectured at the School of Specialization for the Legal Profession of the University of Milan employment law course.
Since 2016, he has been a member of Organismo Congressuale Forense with responsibility for coordinating the working group on Law, Ethics and Technology.
Since 1991, he has been Secretary of the Milan Section of the Domenico Napoletano National Centre for Labour Law Studies and a member of the National Board of Directors of the same association; he was a member of the Employment Law Commission of the International Union of Lawyers until 2013, having held the position of webmaster; he is a founding member of the Italian Employment Lawyers Association (AGI), of which he was national secretary until 2008 and then President of the Lombardy Section until 2015; he is a member of the European Employment Lawyers Association (EELA); he was a member of the Italian Labour Law and Social Insurance Association (AIDLASS); he is a member of the Italian Industrial Relations Association (AISRI).
He was selected to participate in the Yale World Fellows Program in 2006.
He is the editor responsible for Italy of the International Law Office in the area of Employment law.
Andrea’s articles have regularly appeared in a number of leading business publications (Il Sole 24 Ore Editore, Giuffrè Francis Lefebvre, Wolters and Kluwer Italia, La Tribuna Editore; RCS Mediagroup S.p.A.).
He is a speaker at numerous conferences in Italy and abroad on issues of employment law.
He was co-designer and co-editor from 2004 to 2010 of Giuslavoristi.it, with Carlo Russo and Giuseppe Ferraris, one of the first specialized online legal journals.
Languages: Italian, English

Avv.
Annamaria
Pedroni
Avv. Annamaria Pedroni
Partner from 2005.
Annamaria graduated in law from the University of Milan in 1990 with top marks. She has been a member of the Milan Bar Association since 1995 and is admitted to appear before the Italian Supreme Court.
She has collaborated with the Pension Forum project of Bocconi University in Milan; she has lectured at the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Milan and has participated as a lecturer over a number of years at the Master’s Degree in Personnel Management organized by Assolombarda.
She is a member of the Italian Employment Lawyers Association (AGI).
Annamaria is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Italian Language Lawyers (AIGLI).
She is a member of the International Relations Commission of the Bar Association of Milan.
She is editor for Italy of the International Law Office in the area of Employment law.
Annamaria’s articles have regularly appeared in a number of leading business publications (Il Sole 24 Ore Editore, Giuffrè Francis Lefebvre, Wolters and Kluwer Italia).
She is a speaker at numerous conferences on the subject of employment law.
Languages: Italian, English

Avv.
Francesco
Pedroni
Avv. Francesco Pedroni
Partner from 2018.
Francesco graduated in law from the University of Milan in 2001 with top marks. He has been a member of the Milan Bar Association since 2005 and is admitted to appear before the Italian Supreme Court.
He began to deal with issues of employment law and social security since his military service as a Complementary Officer in Guardia di Finanza. He has integrated his professional development with experience in the legal affairs departments of leading multinational and Italian companies.
He is a member of the Italian Employment Lawyers Association (AGI), with which he is also associated as a speaker at conferences and meetings.
Francesco is a regular speaker at conferences on employment law issues.
He is an editor for Italy of the International Law Office in the area of Employment law.
Francesco’s articles have appeared in a number of leading business publications (Il Sole 24 Ore Editore, Giuffrè Francis Lefebvre, Wolters and Kluwer Italia).
Languages: Italian, English

Avv.
Romolo
Stanchi
Avv. Romolo Stanchi
Founding partner.
After graduating in law from the University of Milan, he founded the firm together with Avv. Vincenzo Stanchi in 1975. He has been a member of the Milan Bar Association since 1968 and is qualified to practise law before the Italian supreme Court.
He has assisted and assists a vast and qualified clientele from every industry in all matters that have affected employment law over the years: starting from the first rules limiting dismissals (1966) to those of the Workers’ Statute (1970 and subsequent adjustments); from the transformation of the employment claims procedure from the written to the essentially oral (1973); from the measures for the coordination of industrial policy, restructuring, conversion of the sector (1977) to the subsequent measures on equal treatment, reorganisation of the labour market (1987), youth employment, apprenticeship and temporary work, implementation of European directives; from the Biagi law (2003) to the new rules for arbitration, certification, dismissal, the black economy, time off rules, apprenticeship, public sector employment (2011); and then the labour reform (2012), the Jobs Act (2015) with its structural reforms aimed at ensuring greater flexibility in the labour market, up to the experimentation, with the labour tribunal being the first to implement the new rules governing electronic filing of claims.
His professional involvement and activity have included not only the necessary participation in conferences, debates and study days but essentially the first-hand management of new issues, in the most advanced areas of employment law and related litigation, as well as before all districts of the Italian Courts of Appeal and before the Supreme Court.
He is a member of the Italian Employment Lawyers Association (AGI), a member since its establishment of the Domenico Napoletano National Centre for Labour Law Studies, of which he is treasurer of the Milanese Section, was a member of the Italian Labour Law and Social Insurance Association (AIDLASS) and a member of the Italian Industrial Relations Association (AISRI).
Languages: Italian, French

Avv.
Vincenzo
Stanchi
(1932 - 2019)
Avv. Vincenzo Stanchi
Founding partner.
He graduated in law cum laude from the University of Milan, in 1955, and began to practice the same year.
Until the summer of 1959 he alternated his practice with teaching law and economics in secondary schools. He was admitted to the Bar that year, and thereafter worked mainly and then exclusively in the areas of employment law and social insurance in Milan and in other jurisdictions in Italy, later being admitted to appear before the Supreme Court. His work focused on acting for multinationals, leading domestic companies and senior management in both contentious and non-contentious matters.
Until June 1975 he worked with Umberto and Ferdinando Toffoletto and then, from 1975, in Stanchi Studio Legale, first with his brother Romolo and then with Andrea Stanchi and Annamaria Pedroni.
His clients came from almost all sectors of business, and he participated in the main disputes of the various periods over the last sixty years.
He wrote regularly for the leading journals of the sector (from Informatore Pirola, Intersind, etc. onwards) on a broad range of employment law matters.
He was a member of the Italian Employment Law and Social Insurance Association (AIDLASS) from the mid-60s; he participated in the establishment (in 1973) and as a member of the board of directors of the Milan section of the Domenico Napoletano Study Centre. A member of UIA (International Union of Lawyers) since its foundation, he was also a member of AGI (Italian Employment Lawyers Association), and sat on its Scientific Committee, also lecturing at its Training School. From 1985 he was a member of the Management Committee of the Maximario di Giurisprudenza del Lavoro, and was regularly invited to speak at conferences.
Rapporteur on labour litigation for Italy at the Jean Dabin XI Days of Legal Studies, 14 and 15 October 1982 on “L’evolution du Droit Judiciaire”, held at the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve.
Upon designation by Milan Bar Council, he drew up the Italian report on “Intervention of the State in Labour Law” for the International Union of Lawyers congress held in Luxembourg in 1983. In 1998 he collaborated as a lecturer on complementary pension schemes at the School of Specialisation in Labour Law at the University of Parma. He was a member of the working group coordinated by Aurelio D. Candian, Sergio Paci and Angelo Porta for the “Pension Forum” at Bocconi University, whose output was the “Report on Complementary Pension Schemes” of March 27, 2000. In the same year, by appointment by the Ministry for Cultural Assets and Activities, he took part in the Seminar on the reform of employment litigation, reporting on labour litigation and employment in the public sector. In 2004 he was invited to lecture on legal and contractual regulations in journalism, in the “Master’s Degree in Journalism” at the Leonardo Mondadori Foundation.

Avv.
Simona
Destefani
Avv. Simona Destefani
Simona graduated in law from the University of Parma in 1997 with top marks.
She has been a lawyer since 2002 and is a member of the Milan Bar Association.
She is admitted to appear before the Italian Supreme Court.
She is a member of the Italian Employment Lawyers Association (AGI).
Simona’s articles have appeared in a number of leading business publications (Il Sole 24 Ore Editore, Giuffrè Francis Lefebvre, Wolters and Kluwer Italia).
Languages: Italian, English

Avv.
Michela
Martini
Avv. Michela Martini
Michela graduated in law from the University of Milan in 2000 with top marks.
She successfully concluded a Master’s in Employment Law and Social Security at Cà Foscari University, Venice in 2004.
Michela has been a lawyer since 2004 and is a member of the Milan Bar Association.
She is admitted to appear before the Italian Supreme Court.
Michela has integrated her professional development with experience in the legal affairs departments of leading multinational companies.
She is a member of the Italian Employment Lawyers Association (AGI).
Michela’s articles have appeared in a number of leading business publications (Il Sole 24 Ore Editore, Giuffrè Francis Lefebvre, Wolters and Kluwer Italia).
Languages: Italian, English, German

Avv.
Andrea
Tonalli
Avv. Andrea Tonalli
Andrea graduated in law from the University of Pavia in 2007 with top marks. He has been a member of the Bar Association of Pavia since 2014.
He successfully completed a specialization course in Employment Law and Social Security at the University of Pavia in 2013.
From 2012 to 2017 Andrea was a member of the Commission for the Certification of Employment Contracts established at the University of Pavia.
He has integrated his professional development with experience in the legal affairs departments of leading multinational companies.
Andrea’s articles have appeared in a number of leading business publications (Il Sole 24 Ore Editore, Wolters and Kluwer Italia).
Languages: Italian, English

Avv.
Matteo
Schiavone
Avv. Matteo Schiavone
Matteo graduated in law from University of Roma Tre in 2016 with top marks. He has been a member of the Bar Association of Rome since 2018.
He has completed an internship at the Labour Section of the Court of Appeal of Milan.
Languages: Italian, English, Spanish

Avv.
Carmen
Flore
Avv. Carmen Flore
Carmen graduated in law from University of Roma Tre in 2008 with top marks. She has been a member of the Bar Association of Rome since 2012.
Languages: Italian, English, Spanish