Roberta is Counsel in the employment practice. Roberta focuses on contentious and non-contentious advice in connection with employment and labor law. Her experience ranges from the establishment of employment relations to day-to-day assistance to companies in HR management and termination of employment relations.
Roberta has a track record in agency relations matters as well as in assisting national and international clients on complex redundancy procedures (collective dismissals), work council information and consultation procedures, negotiation of company agreements and transfer of undertaking procedures.
Concentrations
• Employment law
• Restructurings, dismissals, and reorganizations
• Work council/trade unions consultation
• Outsourcing/transfer of undertaking
• Employment litigation
• Agency relationships
Experience
Representative Matters
• Advised the Italian branch of a Norwegian company operating in the aviation sector in the massive collective dismissal of no. 279 employees due to the termination of the air flight business from Fiumicino airport ended with the execution of an agreement with trade unions before the Ministry of Labour.°
• Assisted the Italian company of a French group operating in the retail sector in the management of a redundancy process due to the closure of several stores and involving the dismissal of almost fifty employees in the Northern Italy ended with an agreement with trade unions executed before the Ministry of Labour.°
• Assisted an Italian multinational company leader in the production of spirits and alcoholic beverages in the re-organization of the sales force, including the adoption of new contractual conditions for almost 100 commercial agents and the change of duties in the sales department, including new territory assignments to area managers and dismissals of executive employees.°
• Advised the Italian wing of a Norwegian renewable energy producer on drafting and negotiating several collective company agreements, including agreements on flexible work hours and remote work, variable remuneration pay and welfare measures, business trips and career paths, and work-life balance aimed at introducing a framework of rules to support parenthood and families.°
• Advised a group of companies (involving both Swiss and Italian legal entities) operating as a strategic partner to support healthcare companies in accessing the Italian market, to build an exit strategy to terminate the relationship with the group CFO and managing director, avoiding the risks associated with the requalification into subordinate employment relationships.°
• Advised an Italian industrial company of strategic interest admitted to the extraordinary administration procedure, leader in the market for the production of inverters for photovoltaic systems, in the closure of a productive plant in North Italy and managed the collective redundancy procedure of almost 60 employees ended with a trade unions agreement executed before the Ministry of Labour.°
• Advised a Swiss company operating in the field of infrastructure design and underground works in the transfer of undertaking procedure from an insolvent company and negotiated an agreement with trade unions for the transfer of only part of the workforce and for the reduction of the overall pay of a group of transferred employees.°
• Advised the Italian company of a French group leader in the retail sector in the redundancy procedure involving the dismissal of over sixty employees in the whole Italian territory terminated with an agreement with trade unions executed before the Ministry of Labor and in the following transfer of undertaking process within a merger by incorporation transaction.°
• Advised a company, operating in the production of coffee capsules, in the collective dismissal procedure aimed to dismiss twenty-two employees employed in Lombardy Region and negotiated an agreement with trade unions before Lombardy Region to manage the dismissals.°
• Advised an Italian company, part of a leading multi-national group in the production of beer and soft drinks, in the massive transfer of the employees after decision to move the seat of the company was taken and assisted the company with the termination of several employees who did not follow with the transfer of the company’s seat.°
• Assisted an Italian company leader in the wheel manufacturing sector in the judicial claim for damages brought by the heirs of a former employee died due to lung cancer affirming the company was responsible for the death.°
• Advised an Italian company operating in the production of wines in terminating a general commercial agent for cause and assisted it in the negotiation of an agreement to settle the dispute.°
• Advised the Italian company of a multinational group leader in the automotive sector in the implementation of the organizational model to prevent accidents at work and appointed several managers with the relevant functions as employers for healthcare and safety.°
• Assisted an Italian IT company in negotiating a directorship agreement with a managing director and in the implementation of a share equity plan.°
°The above representations were handled by Ms. Cristaldi prior to her joining Greenberg Traurig.
Previous Experience
• Before joining Greenberg Traurig, Roberta was counsel in the employment team of an international law firm and of a leading Italian law firm.
Teaching Experience
• Lecturer, Executive Master in HR administration and Employment Law, Ge.Ma. S.r.l. Società Benefit, 2021-Present
• Lecturer, Employment Law seminars, Sharecom S.r.l., 2021- 2023
• Lecturer, Webinar on Dismissals and management of redundancies, Memento Academy Giuffré Francis Lefebvre, 2020-2021
• Lecturer, Master in HR administration, Meliusform Business School, 2016-2021
Recognition & Leadership
Professional & Community Involvement
• Member, Milan Bar Association, 2013-Present
• Member, AGI Italian Employment Lawyers Association, 2022-Present
• Member, Young Women Network, 2023-Present
