Associate to a modern law firm, representative of a well known italian credit management bank and affiliated with an important consumer protection association. Specializing in Privacy Compliance, Trademarks, Insurance Law (professional indemnity) and Banking Law (compound interest, usury, debt recovery). - Working closely with other partners to manage a diverse portfolio of approximately 130 clients;- Demonstrating strong interpersonal skills whilst working closely with small start-up companies requiring support on privacy policies in variety of contexts pertaining to app development for mobile platforms;- Researching potential avenues of creating partnerships with firms in Germany, Austria and France.Achievements: - Utilised in-depth knowledge of international comparative law to successfully draft several policies for start-up companies working in the EU mobile app development field;- Provided specialist support on European privacy policies and also counselling on the matter of personal sensitive data transfer between European countries.

Privacy and Data Protection Law, OnLine Defamation, Internet Service Providers (ISP) Liability, OnLine Copyright Infringements.Debt recovery issues and litigation; Corporate Legal Advice, Commercial & Settlement agreements, Shareholders agreements, Asset Protection and Management, Bankruptcy.

Admission to the Post-Graduate School of LAW (XXVII CYCLE), Ph.D. in Italian and Comparative Private Law.Appointed Exam Committee Member in 2013 and Teaching Assistant in 2014.- Focusing on academic development and admitted to PhD school and appointed as exam committee member for Comparative Private Law and Civil Law.Achievements: - Published several academic papers in numerous legal journals focusing on European Court of Justice rulings;- Recognised for strong academic background and selected as an Assistant Lecturer in Civil Law, teaching classes of up to 100 students;- Completed own PhD with research focusing on online privacy, electronic data protection, online defamation and ISP liability.

Partner with a prestigious Law Firm attorney for UniCredit Credit Management Bank Spa (UCCMB), specializing in Banking and Finance Law, Business Law, Corporate Law, Bankruptcy Law, Privacy Policies and Compliance, M&A, Trust Activities, Asset Protection Strategies, International Legal Assistance.- Responsible for working directly with UniCredit to identify liabilities and increase their customer satisfaction thereby increasing the annual rating issued to us by the bank itself;- Attending external client meeting to review their existing processes around customer management with a focus on customer relations and complaints management;- Successfully identifying key issue revolving around time taken to resolve court cases as this had an impact on both the Firm’s and the Bank’s image;- Demonstrating strong leadership during internal meeting with senior partners to request permission to formulate own team and efficient processes to significantly speed up completion rates of cases.Achievements: - Maintained a sustained increase in the rating of Firm’s performance by the bank, generating an additional 300k euros within 3 years as more work was allocated by the bank;- Recognised for revenue increase and selected to travel abroad to discuss and set up commercial contracts in countries such as China, India and Lebanon for the firm's main clients.

Responsible as legal advisor for one of Southern Italy’s largest distributor of books.Chairing weekly meetings to review current liabilities and loss of revenues being suffered by the company.Achievements: - Demonstrated strong attention to detail and time management whilst reviewing over 500 verbal contracts and re-drafting and re-negotiating formal written contracts in the place of each one;- Successfully identified main issue as a total lack of written contracts, with most agreements being verbal and therefore non-enforceable.

Attending meetings with senior bank staff to make an analysis of current high rate of court rulings being made against the bank; also gaining insight to complaints made to senior management in-branch.Identifying current lack of trained lawyers dealing with consumer complaints and recommending this responsibility be removed from senior banking staff who had no legal expertise and were thus breaching contractual compliance.Attending external meetings with lawyers representing the bank to accurately explain exposure of bank and recommending direction for cases.Achievements: - Successfully brought down complaints by 50%, utilising strong interpersonal and negotiation skills to arrange out of court settlements for over 70 cases;- Recognised for client focused approach to work and seconded to work for UniCredit Bank for 12 months.

6 months stage:Made responsible for providing legal support to a private company developing a bespoke e-learning platform for the Italian Ministry of Justice.Achievements: - Designated to research intellectual property law to ensure all compliance related issues were effectively managed and also carefully analysing draft policies to check for potential copyright infringement;- Utilised excellent communication skills during meetings to provide legal insight into viability of business model, identifying liabilities and explaining complex legal concepts in non-technical language.

Practice and training in banking law and administrative law. Training and Specialization in Court Litigation and Italian Procedural Law.- Utilising excellent research and analysis skills to gain in depth understanding of Banking & Commerce Law;- Demonstrating excellent written skills whilst preparing court drafts for senior partners and also attending court hearings with them to gain an enhanced understanding of court litigation procedures.Achievement: - Chosen to assist with international client work by researching and preparing notes on American Bankruptcy law.