Intellectual Property
We assist companies in the protection, enhancement and enforcement of their intangible asset portfolios. Our IP team advises on trademarks and other distinctive signs, copyright, confidential business know-how (including the protection of software and databases), patents, designs, and models, as well as on unfair competition matters.
Information Technology
In the digital sphere, we support clients in drafting and negotiating agreements relating to IT projects, including the supply or development of software, platforms, and IT services.
Our team has specialised expertise across all key IT topics, such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, electronic signatures and digital identity systems (eIDAS Regulation), IoT-related regulatory frameworks, and data-driven projects (Data Act, Data Governance Act).
We keep abreast of all major legaltech solutions and assist in-house legal departments in adopting technology tools suited to their operations.
E-commerce
We have strong experience in structuring e-commerce projects, including their contractual aspects (B2B and B2C), and a comprehensive understanding of the various compliance obligations applicable to online commerce (e.g., GDPR, consumer protection, obligations for online platforms, freedom to provide services and freedom of establishment within the EU, product compliance and extended producer responsibility, web accessibility requirements for persons with disabilities).
Data Protection and Cybersecurity
We advise on data protection and cybersecurity both with a view to compliance with EU and national regulations (GDPR, NIS2, DORA, Cyber Resilience Act) and to support clients who have suffered cyber incidents or frauds through appropriate remediation and mitigation actions.
We place particular focus on directors’ liability, supply-chain oversight, and third-party risk management.
We also support corporate groups, including multinational groups, in adopting and maintaining a cybersecurity risk-management strategy tailored to their internal structures and multi-jurisdictional footprint.
Representative Matters
Assistance in several disputes concerning the ownership of IP rights arising from international film co-productions.
Assistance to a chemical-sector company in a case involving attempted misappropriation of trade secrets and comprehensive review of the legal instruments protecting confidentiality and industrial property.
- Support — on both seller and buyer sides — in numerous M&A transactions driven by the strategic value of the target’s technology (patents, digital platforms).
- Support to leading Italian groups in the IT and healthcare sectors in implementing the NIS2 directive and training their directors and officers on adequate cyber-risk management.
Assistance to the Italian branch of a European cybersecurity group on privacy, NIS2 compliance, e-commerce and consumer-law matters.
- Support and audits for the European subsidiaries of a Chinese medical-device group, covering a broad range of EU compliance requirements including privacy and cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence Act compliance, and adoption of electronic signatures in line with eIDAS.
- Assistance to several companies following business-email-compromise frauds, including all necessary actions to recover misappropriated funds.
- Assistance to various e-commerce platforms regarding compliance with extended producer responsibility (EPR) regulations.
