
Paola Furiosi
Paola Furiosi is a Partner of PwC Legal & Tax Italy and is Head of the IP, Tech & Data department for Italy. She has 20+ years of experience dedicated to providing counsel to national and international clients on a wide range of matters, including Intellectual Property, Data Protection and Artificial Intelligence. She assists numerous leading companies across a wide range of activities, both in and out of Court, including the negotiation and drafting of several kinds of agreements, the assistance in consumer and regulatory issues, the exploitation of IP rights and technological assets, the assistance in sponsorship initiatives, e-commerce strategies, and digital activities. In addition, she has also good relationship with AGCOM, with specific focus – inter alia – to collecting societies matter, as well as IAP. Furthermore, her practice also covers IT-related contracts, including outsourcing, cloud computing, hosting and service provision agreements. She is currently fully immersed with assisting her clients in the adapting to the disruptive impact of artificial intelligence. Paola is invited as a lecturer at national and international conferences on intellectual property. She is a member of the Chamber of Industrial Lawyers and of several associations in the IP field, including AIPPI, LES, INDICAM and INTA. · PwC Legal & Tax Italy
About
Paola Furiosi is a Partner at PwC Legal & Tax Italy and Head of the IP, Tech & Data department for Italy, with 20+ years' experience advising national and international clients on intellectual property, data protection and artificial intelligence. She assists leading companies in and out of court on IP exploitation, data protection, regulatory/consumer issues, IT contracts and digital/e‑commerce strategies, and is active as a lecturer and member of multiple IP associations.
Practice areas
Office
Expertise
Education
- Bocconi University — J.D., 2004
- Master in Intellectual Property Law, MDPI — 2009
- Master for Data Protection Officer — Certified 2020
Admissions
- Milan Bar Association — 2008
- Italian Supreme Court — 2020
- Data Protection Officer (certified 2020)