Lorenzo Cairo
Lorenzo Cairo focuses his activity on employment law, advising leading national and international companies on all aspects of employment law including restructuring processes, incentive plans, non-compete covenants, disciplinary proceedings, termination of top managers and litigation before the Italian Courts.
Since 2001, when he graduated with a paper about the right to privacy of the employee in Italy and France, Lorenzo also advises clients on data protection law, providing assistance about privacy compliance and relations with the Privacy Authority.
Lorenzo has been a member of the Management Committee of the National School of Employment law at AGI – Avvocati Giuslavoristi Italiani, the Italian Employment Lawyers Association, from 2012 to 2017. He lectured in employment law at the Specialization School for Legal Professions of the State University of Milan from 2011 to 2014.
He graduated in law from the University of Milan and was admitted to the Italian Bar Association in April 2006.
Acknowledgements
Sources describe Lorenzo Cairo as "very talented and always available," and excellent at proposing "different solutions for one case." He advises clients on all areas of employment law.
Chambers Europe 2015
Lorenzo Cairo has been mentioned in the Chambers' 2015 list of the 40 most outstanding up-and-coming European lawyers.
Gattai, Minoli, Partners with KYIP Investment Fund for the acquisition of Selecta Group
The Firm has advised KYIP Capital and its closed-end mutual investment fund called "KYIP Investment Fund" in connection to the acquisition of the entire share capital of Selecta Group.
Gattai, Minoli, Partners with Cerved Credit Management in the acquisition of Rev
The Firm advised Cerved Credit Management in the tender procedure which awarded the operating platform of REV Gestione Crediti – a company wholly owned by the National Resolution Fund (“Fondo Nazionale di Risoluzione”) and which was incorporated in 2015 by the Bank of Italy to allocate the exposures of four Italian banks under resolution (Popolare Etruria, Banca Marche, Cassa di Chieti and CariFerrara) – to Cerved.
Gattai, Minoli, Partners in the acquisition of the majority of Datlas S.r.l. by KYMA
The Firm advised KYMA Investment Partners SGR, which recently completed the first closing of the "Kyma Investment Fund" dedicated to the digital transformation of Italian SMEs with a particular focus on the Education and Information Technology sectors.
Gattai, Minoli, Agostinelli & Partners in the acquisition by Clessidra of a majority stake of Casa Vinicola Botter S.p.A.
Gattai, Minoli, Agostinelli & Partners assisted Clessidra SGR in the acquisition of a majority stake of Casa Vinicola Botter S.p.A., a Venetian corporation among the major players in the export of Italian wine in the world, owned by the Botter Family and DeA Capital.
Gattai, Minoli, Agostinelli & Partners in the sale of the Petruzalek Group to Zeus Packaging
Gattai, Minoli, Agostinelli & Partners assisted Sirap-Gema S.p.A., an Italmobiliare subsidiary company, in the execution of a binding agreement for the sale of the Petruzalek Group and Sirap GmbH (Germany) to the Irish Zeus Packaging.
Gattai, Minoli, Agostinelli & Partners in the acquisition by Cedacri of CAD IT
Gattai, Minoli, Agostinelli & Partners advised Cedacri, major Italian operator in the outsourcing and IT market for banks and financial institutions, as purchaser, in the acquisition of CAD IT.
Gattai, Minoli, Agostinelli & Partners advisor to Intermediate Capital Group in the acquisition through Europe VII Fund of the Italian pharmaceutical company DOC Generici
Gattai, Minoli, Agostinelli & Partners advised Intermediate Capital Group’s Europe VII Fund in the acquisition, in partnership with Mérieux Equity Partners together with the management team, of DOC Generici, one of the largest independent Italian pharmaceutical companies. The deal is subject to the approval by the competent antitrust authorities and has a value of Euro 1.1 billion.
Gattai, Minoli, Agostinelli & Partners legal Advisor to HEXPOL AB in the acquisition of a majority stake in Mesgo S.p.A. from NB Aurora
Gattai, Minoli, Agostinelli & Partners assisted HEXPOL AB, a Swedish industrial group specialized in polymer compounds listed on the Stockholm market NASDAQ OMX in the Large Cap segment, in the acquisition of a majority stake in Mesgo S.p.A.
Gattai, Minoli, Agostinelli & Partners Advisor to CVC in the acquisition of a controlling stake in Recordati S.p.A.
Gattai Minoli Agostinelli & Partners assisted, on the M&A and the management re-investment aspects, the funds managed by CVC Capital Partners in the agreement for the acquisition of a controlling stake in Recordati S.p.A. from Recordati Family.
Gattai, Minoli, Agostinelli & Partners organizes the round table “Personal data and commercial information: a matter of (cyber)security”
Personal Data and commercial information involve several aspects of privacy and know-how protection as amended by the recent laws. A main issue for companies is the protection of data and information mostly from an IT prospective.
Gattai, Minoli, Agostinelli & Partners Advisor to Azimut in the acquisition of the business branch Sofia SGR
As a consequence of the acquisition, Azimut SGR, among other things, takes over the management of four mutual investment funds previously managed by Sofia SGR bringing its network to 40 financial advisors, who, up to the closing date, managed assets for an approximate value of Euro 950 million.
Gattai, Minoli, Agostinelli & Partners: 21 lawyers ranked in “The Legal 500 2018”
“The Legal 500 2018” has been published. There are 21 lawyers ranked in 8 different practices confirming the experience and quality of the resources.
In particular, the international directory mentioned our law firm amongst the top 5 Italian law firms market players and reports that “Gattai has experienced impressive growth in recent years”.
Gattai, Minoli, Agostinelli & Partners creates a Fintech Taskforce
Within the Intellectual Property Meetings, a roundtable to discuss on “Smart Contract and ICO: blockchain following bitcoin” has been organized for April 19, 2018. The event sees the participation, in addition to the professionals of the Firm, of Ignazio Rocco di Torrepadula, CEO of Credimi Spa, Gian Luca Comandini, Co-Founder of Assobit, Marta Ghiglioni, FinTech Strategist, Marco Bassini - Bocconi University, Federico Panisi – Brescia University, Matteo Masserdotti, Founder and CEO of Two Hundred and Massimo Chiriatti, Client Technical Manager at IBM Italia.
Gattai, Minoli, Agostinelli & Partners Advisor in the sale of Eurofiere S.p.A.
Gattai, Minoli, Agostinelli & Partners assisted Argenta Holdings S.àr.l., Giuseppe Turri and Andrea Carnevale in the sale of Eurofiere S.p.A., company active in temporary and interior retail, design, architecture and decoration of both exhibition stands and business offices, showrooms and concept stores, to Rooster S.p.A.
Gattai, Minoli, Agostinelli & Partners legal Advisor to Aptos in the acquisition from TXT e-solutions of the Retail Division for Euro 85 milion
Gattai, Minoli, Agostinelli & Partners acted as legal advisor to Aptos Inc., a portfolio company of Apax Partners and market leader in retail technology solutions, in the acquisition of the Retail Division of TXT e-solutions S.p.A., a company listed on the Italian Stock Exchange (STAR segment).
Gattai, Minoli, Agostinelli & Partners advisor to Cerved in the extension of the industrial partnership with BHW Bausparkasse
Today BHW Bausparkasse AG – Italian branch, headquartered in Bolzano, part of the German banking group BHW Bausparkasse AG, in turn part of the German banking group Deutsche Postbank AG), and Cerved Credit Management Group, subsidiary of Cerved Information Solutions S.p.A. – parent holding company of Cerved Group SpA, the largest information provider and credit servicer in Italy – have finalised an agreement to extend their long-term industrial partnership for the management of non-performing loans in order to include also support and administrative activities on a portfolio of performing, sub-performing and non-performing loans for approximately 1.5 billion Euros.
Gattai, Minoli, Agostinelli & Partners advises Cerved on Juliet acquisition
Gattai, Minoli, Agostinelli & Partners assisted Cerved Group S.p.A. in connection with the negotiation of an agreement with Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena S.p.A. aimed at a long-term partnership in the NPL sector.
Gattai Minoli Agostinelli & Partners in the acquisition of Corneliani
Gattai Minoli Agostinelli & Partners advised Investcorp in the acquisition of a majority stake in Corneliani, through the acquisition of an equity stake from the Corneliani family and underwriting of a capital increase.
Gattai, Minoli, Agostinelli & Partners: Legal Advisor to CVC in the acquisition of Doc Generici.
Gattai Minoli Agostinelli & Partners assisted private equity fund CVC in the acquisition of Doc Generici from Charterhouse.