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Biography

Giuseppe Calabi is the senior partner of the firm. He has an extensive experience in the areas of commercial law, M&A, private equity and debt restructuring. For over twenty years he has been practicing banking and financial services law, assisting major Italian and foreign banks and financial intermediaries. He has successfully developed the Art Law practice, in which the firm is widely recognized as a leader both nation-wide and internationally. He is currently collaborating on projects concerning the reform of Italian heritage laws and artwork export license regime. He was also a pioneer in the areas of new technologies, internet, data protection and digital contents and currently assists important Italian and foreign players in the e-commerce industry. He is the legal counsel of Netcomm, the main Italian trade association of merchants and e-commerce providers and participates in the E-Regulation Committee of Ecommerce Europe, the European network of e-commerce trade associations. He deals with issues related to ISP liability, as well as to Italian and foreign social networks. He has been advisor to the first Italian financial social network. He is a member of the Harvard Law School Leadership Council of Europe. He is also a member of the Copyright Commission of the Italian Publishers Association and of the Advisory Committee of the Italian Communication Authority (AGCOM) on online copyright infringement.