Presentations

Alberto De Luca is senior partner at DL-LAW in Milan, Italy, and has been in the employment law field since 2000. Having spent many years at a first-tier multinational firm before becoming senior partner in independent specialised top-tier boutiques, he regularly and mainly handles the labour and employment-related aspects of reorganisations and reshaping processes, M&A, and private equity transactions. Ranked by Chambers and Partners since 2014 and admitted to advocate before the Supreme Court, Alberto is has been a member for more than a decade of Italian Employment Lawyers Association and the European Employment Lawyers Association. Alberto is vice chair of the employment committee with the IPBA.

Nan Sato is a partner in Fisher Phillips’ Philadelphia and New York offices. She co-chairs the firm’s International Practice Group and serves as Chair of the firm’s recently launched Global Mobility Practice Group. Building a robust practice over the past decade, Nan advises global companies and institutions on employment matters, and is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/E & CIPP/C). Nan specializes in international labor law, remote work risks, and cross-border employment issues across Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Canada, and Latin America.

Nan is a trusted advisor to her clients on a broad range of matters including global workforce structuring, M&A employment concerns, data privacy, labor relations, and international disputes. Her industry experience spans manufacturing, finance, biotech, technology, entertainment, fashion, and education. In the area of sports law, she advises governing bodies, clubs, and sponsors on contracts and disputes, representing clients before the Court of Arbitration for Sport and FIFA’s Dispute Resolution Chamber.

A sought-out speaker and writer on international employment law, Nan also lectures on eSports law at ISDE and serves on LawInSport’s editorial board. She also serves as a fellow for the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD) and holds a certification as a Wagyu Sommelier.

Kathryn Weaver heads up the Asia Pacific employment practice at Seyfarth Shaw, an AmLaw 100 labour and employment-focused international law firm. She is dual-qualified (Hong Kong and England & Wales) and has extensive experience of advising multi-national employers in the Asia Pacific region on international employment law matters. Her work spans both contentious and non-contentious matters, such as implementing partnership programme and equity schemes, coordinating litigation, carrying out contract, policy and compliance reviews, advising on restructuring and terminations, and negotiating settlements. She is regularly called on to speak at legal and HR conferences and events in the region on topical employment law matters. She cares passionately about diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging matters, including those relating to mental health, and assisting companies in Hong Kong with their DEIB journey.