• Law degree, Catholic University of Milan, 1995

• Avvocato, qualified in Italy 1997

• Labor and Employment Law: Italy, Best Lawyers, 2025 (recognized since 2022).
• Selected Lawyer, Employment: Italy, MF Legal & Tax Excellence Report, 2024.
• Employment: Italy, The Legal 500 EMEA, 2024.
  Attilio Pavone is the firm’s head of practice with expertise in corporate restructurings, larger-scale redundancies and individual dismissals. Testimonials: ‘Highly professional team, personalised service with an optimal solution.’
• Employment: Italy, Chambers Europe, 2024.
  Attilio Pavone manages an array of employment mandates, such as remuneration schemes, transfers of personnel and negotiations of settlement agreements with top managers. He also advises on social security matters. ‘Attilio is a real partner to us, always providing meaningful insights.’
• Top 10 Influential Employment Lawyers in Italy, Business Today, 2023.
• Employment law: Italy, The Legal 500 EMEA, 2023.
• Employment: Italy, Chambers Europe, 2023.
  Attilio Pavone manages an array of employment mandates, such as transfers of personnel and negotiations of settlement agreements with top managers. He also advises on social security matters. Strengths: ‘He provides constant partnership and commercial vision.’
• Recommended Lawyer, Labour & Employment and Labour, Employment & Benefits: Italy, Who’s Who Legal, 2021-2023.
• Employment: Italy, The Legal 500 EMEA, 2022.
  ‘Fast and with high skills in the sector’; ‘Excellent knowledge of clients’ businesses. Attilio Pavone makes the difference’; ‘He is a high-level expert on the subject and a connoisseur of the specific sector. Quick, helpful and attentive to details.’
• Employment: Italy, Chambers Europe, 2022.
  Attilio Pavone manages an array of employment mandates, such as transfers of personnel and negotiations of settlement agreements with top managers.
  ‘Always available, open-minded, responsive and proactive. He is an excellent team leader.’
• Acritas Star Lawyer, 2017- 2021.
• Employment Law: Italy, The Legal 500 EMEA, 2021.
  ‘Attilio Pavone has extensive knowledge of several sectors and demonstrates speed and completeness of support.’
• Employment Law: Italy, Chambers Europe, 2021.
  Clients value Attilio Pavone’s valuable inputs, commercial mindset and ability to provide legally sound solutions. He manages an array of employment mandates, such as transfers of personnel and negotiations of settlement agreements with top managers.
• Selected Lawyer, Employment litigation: Milano Finanza Legal Awards (Italy), 2021
• Employment law: Italy, The Legal 500 EMEA, 2020.
  ‘Particularly active for consumer credit firms and financial services clients. Very high competence in labour legislation cases, in particular, he knows in detail specific sectors and peculiarities, which makes it easy to deal with complicated matters in a very effective and efficient way.’
• Employment law: Italy, Chambers Europe, 2020.
  Clients highlight practice head Attilio Pavone of Norton Rose Fulbright for being very business-minded and competent. He acts on both contentious and non-contentious matters including advising on all employment aspects of M&A transactions.

Attilio regularly contributes to financial newspaper 'Il Sole 24 Ore' with articles and publications on employment law and speaks at conferences and seminars on employment law.

• The Italian Employment Lawyers Association (AGI)
• European Employment Lawyers Association (EELA)
• International Bar Association (IBA)
• Action Institute

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