LabLaw Studio Legale Rotondi & Partners

What LabLaw Studio Legale Rotondi & Partners does

LabLaw Studio Legale Rotondi & Partners is an Italian boutique law firm founded in 2006 and headquartered in Milan, operating exclusively in the field of employment and labour law. The firm is led by Founding Name Partner Francesco Rotondi and Founding Partner Luca Failla, both individually recognized by Who's Who Legal and other leading directories, and runs a total headcount of 51–100 employees including 20+ fee-earning professionals. It maintains five offices across Italy — Milan, Naples, Messina, Bari, and Bologna — the last opened in February 2020 in partnership with Studio Legale Carinci, and positions itself as the largest specialized employment-law boutique in the Italian market by geography and professional headcount.

The firm's service offering spans sixteen core practice areas, including corporate reorganizations and workforce restructurings, employment litigation, industrial relations and trade union negotiations, M&A labour due diligence, executive and top-manager advisory, immigration and expatriate management, welfare and benefits, social security, sports law, workplace investigations, and public-employment law. LABLAW Academy provides professional education, and dedicated German, French, and Spanish desks support cross-border engagements. Strategic alliances with Deloitte Legal (September 2020) and a 2025 collaboration with Grassi Advisory Group Inc. extend delivery capability, while exclusive Italian membership in the L&E Global network provides international reach.

LabLaw operates a partner-led, fee-for-service professional services model, billing corporate clients on the scope of each engagement without publicly disclosed pricing. Its customer base is horizontal across Italian large-cap and mid-market corporates, supplemented by public institutions and state-controlled entities; the firm reports assisting approximately 300 companies daily, with cumulative track record of 10,000 proceedings and 300 corporate reorganizations. Revenue is not publicly disclosed. The firm is privately held, founder-owned, and has no external institutional investment. Brand value is reinforced by Legal 500 EMEA top-tier status (2020 and 2026), Legal 500 Hall of Fame, Chambers, Who's Who Legal, Best Lawyers, TopLegal Top 40 Brand (ranked 34 of 230+), and multiple LegalCommunity Labour Awards.

Name

LabLaw Studio Legale Rotondi & Partners

Legal name

LABLAW Studio Legale Rotondi & Partners

Website

https://lablaw.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2006

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

LabLaw Studio Legale Rotondi & Partners is an Italian boutique law firm founded in 2006 and headquartered in Milan, specializing exclusively in employment and labour law for corporate clients across 16 practice areas, with five offices in Italy and dedicated German, French, and Spanish desks for cross-border matters.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Milano

HQ country

Italy

HQ region

Europe

Offices5 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Legal Advisory Services: Revenue is generated through professional legal services billed to corporate clients. The firm provides specialized counsel across the full spectrum of Italian employment and labour law, including litigation, transactional advisory, industrial relations, and compliance services.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

LabLaw is a specialized Italian boutique law firm providing 360° employment and labour law advisory to corporate clients across 16 core practice areas, including corporate reorganizations and restructurings, employment litigation, industrial relations and trade union negotiations, M&A labour aspects, executive/top manager advisory, immigration and expatriate management, social security, sports law, workplace investigations, privacy and workplace monitoring, and health & safety compliance. The firm also operates dedicated German, French, and Spanish international desks for cross-border matters and runs the LABLAW Academy training program for legal professionals and HR specialists.

Product overview

LabLaw Studio Legale Rotondi & Partners is a specialized Italian employment and labor law firm operating as a single unified legal practice with multiple specialized service areas. The firm offers comprehensive employment law services across 16 core practice areas including corporate reorganizations and restructurings, employment litigation, industrial relations, M&A labor aspects, immigration, sports law, and workplace investigations. The practice is organized with dedicated international desks (German, French, Spanish) for cross-border matters and includes LABLAW Academy for professional education. The firm operates 5 offices across Italy (Milan, Naples, Messina, Bari, Bologna) and serves approximately 300 companies daily with a team of over 20 professionals.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Corporate Reorganizations and Restructurings Advisory and legal support for corporate reorganization and restructuring processes, including workforce reductions and organizational transformations, for Italian corporate clients.
• Employment Litigation

Quantifiable outcome

• 300 companies assisted every day
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

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Has API

No

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Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• Grassi Advisory Group Inc.minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 11 April 2025LabLaw announced a collaboration agreement with Grassi Advisory Group Inc. introducing a new standard of excellence in Employment and Labour Law through the collaboration.
• KPMGcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 3 February 2023LabLaw collaborated with KPMG to produce the 'Budget Bill 2023 Main labour law profiles' paper, analyzing the impact of Italy's Budget Bill 2023 on the world of work including tax wedge reduction, citizenship income modifications, early pensions, and hiring incentives.
• Deloitte LegalcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 16 September 2020LabLaw Studio Legale Rotondi & Partners and Deloitte Legal announced a strategic alliance in September 2020, aimed at promoting the union between excellence in labour law and multidisciplinarity and innovation in the legal advisory services market. The partnership brings together LabLaw's specialized employment law expertise with Deloitte Legal's broader multidisciplinary advisory capabilities.
• Tesori d'ItaliaminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 15 July 2020LabLaw entered into a partnership with Tesori d'Italia, described as a collaboration for the relaunch of Italian entrepreneurship.
• Studio Legale CarincicoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 28 February 2020LabLaw opened its 8th office in Bologna, Italy in partnership with Studio Legale Carinci, expanding the firm's geographic footprint in northern Italy.
• L&E GlobalcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLabLaw is the exclusive Italian member of L&E Global, an international network of employment law firms. Through this network, LabLaw provides coordinated cross-border employment law counsel and contributes to the L&E Global Employment Law Tracker covering global workplace trends.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Chiomenti: Top-tier Italian full-service firm renowned for corporate and finance work, with a notable employment law practice serving large Italian corporates. Direct broad-incumbent competitor for premium employment mandates tied to M&A and reorganisations.
• DLA Piper Italy: Global law firm's Italian offices offering employment and labour law services alongside international corporate practice. Comparable as broad-incumbent competing for cross-border employment mandates that LabLaw serves via L&E Global.
• BonelliErede: One of Italy's largest full-service law firms, with a substantial employment and labour law practice alongside corporate, M&A, and dispute resolution. Represents the broad-incumbent competitive threat: full-service firms able to bundle employment work into larger mandates.
• NCTM Studio Legale: Italian full-service law firm with established employment and labour law capabilities serving corporate Italy. Comparable as a broad incumbent offering employment work as part of a wider portfolio.
• Gianni & Origoni: Major Italian full-service law firm with employment law capabilities serving corporate Italy. Comparable as broad-incumbent offering integrated services that may pull employment mandates from pure-play boutiques.
• Deloitte Legal Italy: Big-Four legal arm in Italy with multidisciplinary advisory including employment law. Strategic alliance partner to LabLaw but also a competitor combining employment advisory with tax, consulting, and broader services.

Direct peers

• Toffoletto De Luca Tamajo: Leading Italian boutique law firm specialising exclusively in employment and labour law. Closest direct peer to LabLaw given shared boutique model, single-practice focus, and comparable Italian market positioning in employment advisory and litigation.
• LCA Studio Legale: Italian law firm with a strong specialist employment and labour law practice across multiple offices. Comparable boutique-to-mid-tier competitor in the Italian employment advisory market with similar partner-led service model.
• Ogletree Deakins: One of the largest global employment and labour law firms with deep cross-border capabilities. Comparable as a specialist employment law firm operating at greater scale internationally, often cited as the global benchmark for the boutique-specialist model LabLaw pursues in Italy.
• Trifirò & Partners: Italian boutique law firm dedicated to employment and labour law, often cited alongside LabLaw in Italian legal directory rankings. Directly comparable as a focused specialist competing in the same Italian employment-law niche.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/lablaw

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Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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