Recent Developments

Italian Insolvency Law Reforms

HR Colsultancy

JOBS ACT - Fixed term employment contract: potential fines for those companies with 20% or more of their employees on fixed term contracts

Current proposed amendments by the Jobs Act include (i) replacing the fine for conversion of fixed term contracts exceeding the 20% limit into open-ended contracts with a fine to be paid to the employee and (ii) the clarification of the reintroduction of basic training for apprentices. 

Chapter 11 focuses on preserving reorganization or going concern value over liquidation value. As a corollary, Chapter 11 assumes that the most efficacious way to achieve that result is to retain management and enable multiple outcomes either through a plan of reorganization, a series of going concern sales and even a liquidating plan. Chapter 11 enables a wide range of proposals to be put into a reorganization plan, including having the company and its management survive the process.

The Court interpreted the terms of a Termination Agreement and found that the Applicant, Europa, was entitled to €1.3 million from the Defendant, AII, in relation to funds invested on Europa's behalf, which had been paid out and held by AII. As a matter of construction, it could not have been intended that AII should be left with sums owing to an investor following a Termination Agreement.

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February 2017 N° 19 Fondo Atlante and the future for the financial institutions Tommaso dalla Massara Some news on insolvency procedures Fabio Marelli EU Commission first draft of ePrivacy Regulation Rocco Panetta Insurance Distribution Directive Guido Foglia ACROSS THE EUNIVERSE 2 In this Issue Editorial Giovanni Moschetta, Bernard O'Connor 3 What's App in Europe 4 Bernard O'Connor The next big thing for European data protection: EU Commission publishes first draft of ePrivacy Regulation to be discussed during GDPR transition period 6 Rocco Panetta, Francesco Armaroli Critical features of

In cosa consistono le misure di moratoria previste per le PMI dal decreto “cura Italia”?

Il Decreto “cura Italia” prevede che le micro e le PMI che hanno sofferto crisi di liquidità a causa dell’epidemia da Covid-19 possano: 

Sin dall’inizio della crisi sanitaria ed economica causata dall’epidemia di Covid-19 il Governo ha prospettato il possibile ricorso al c.d. golden power a tutela degli interessi strategici nazionali, annunciando anche il suo ampliamento a settori diversi da quelli nei quali tradizionalmente opera.

All’indomani della crisi sanitaria causata dall’epidemia di Covid-19 e delle conseguenti misure di lockdown, il Governo italiano si è trovato a dover adottare, tra le altre, le misure necessarie a conciliare l’esigenza di contenere la propagazione del virus con quella, altrettanto primaria, di garantire, nei limiti del possibile, il funzionamento della giustizia civile, penale, tributaria ed amministrativa sul territorio nazionale.