Languages
- Italian
- English
Andrea Afferni works in the TMC – Technology Media & Communication department, as Associate.
His practice focuses on privacy law, consumer law and commercial and intellectual property law, with a particular interest for the communication and technology sectors. He also has experience in corporate law, insolvency law and litigation.
He advises clients, both on a national and international context, on IT-related services and products, such as outsourcing of technology services, cloud computing, software development, licensing, maintenance and IT consulting service. His experience includes drafting and negotiation of commercial contracts, including supply and distribution of products and services, sponsorship, cooperation and partnership agreements. His experience also includes advising in connection with licensing and exploitation of intellectual property, consumer law, data protection, internet and e-commerce issues.
Andrea has written several articles on commercial and data protection law, including: "Dark patterns: what they are and their relationship with the GDPR" (2020, www.cybersecurity360.it); "Cloud computing and GDPR: accountability rules for international data transfers" (2019, www.cybersecurity360.it); "Marketing and profiling, the role of Data Management Platforms in the GDPR” (2019, www.cybersecurity360.it), and "The influence of European law on the Italian economic constitution on competition law" (2017, Gazzetta Amministrativa della Repubblica Italiana).