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Valentina Pomares

Executive Partner
Co-Head of Employment and Pensions

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Valentina is Executive partner and Co-Head of the firm's labour and pension department.

From 2021 she is member of the Steering Committee of the Firm. She has extensive experience in the labour/employment law and social security fields, representing Italian and international clients in both contentious and non-contentious matters.

Valentina provides day-to-day advice to businesses on a wide range of employment-related issues, advising on the procedures for hiring staff, individual or collective dismissals, exercising disciplinary powers, transfer of business, and the transfer/secondment of employees, non-competition covenants, bonus schemes, other documents for regulating employment relationships, and disciplinary procedural codes. Secondments, expatriate workers, agency agreements, consultancy and/or service agreements are further areas within her specialist practice.

Valentina graduated "magna cum laude" from the University of Milan in 1993 and was admitted to the Italian Bar in 1996.

Valentina is a regular presenter and contributor at seminars and workshops and she has been also a Lecturer in Civil Law at the Bocconi University in Milan. Moreover, she frequently writes several articles for major institutional newspapers such as “Il Sole 24 ore”.

She is a member of the European Employment Law Association (EELA) and the Italian Employment Lawyers Association AGI. Prior to joining the firm, she worked in the employment and labour department of leading Italian and international law firms.

Valentina won the Legalcommunity Award 2019 as the “Best Lawyer – Top Management” and the Milano Finanza Legal Awards 2021 prize as “Top Woman in Legal 2021”. The jury's motivation identifies her as "the only female representative of a Steering Committee within an international law firm in Italy in 2021”

In 2021 Valentina was awarded as “Lawyer of the year in Consultancy” at Legalcommunity Labour Awards. The jury’s motivation was: “The market has highlighted the absolute excellence of the lawyer in the field of advice/consultancy, provided at 360 ° on every issue of a labour law nature. During the reporting period, she managed to successfully support her clients in some of the most significant cases in terms of complexity and value.”

In 2022 Valentina Pomares and her team won as "Firm of the Year Consultancy" at the Legalcommunity Labour Awards.

In 2023 Valentina Pomares received the Best Practice Labour Private Equity award at the Legalcommunity Labour Awards.

Valentina Pomares is ranked in Chambers & Partners Europe 2023 legal directory.

Legal 500: “Valentina is the perfect advisor: pragmatic, resolute and straight to the point lawyer."


  • Member of the European Employment Law Association (EELA)
  • Member of the Italian Employment Lawyers Association AGI
  • Admitted to the Italian Bar in 1996
  • Graduated magna cum laude from the University of Milan in 1993
Valentina Pomares

Executive Partner

Co-Head of Employment and Pensions

Valentina Pomares

Executive Partner

Co-Head of Employment and Pensions

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