About

An internationally educated lawyer Fabio Missori, completed his post graduate studies at Georgetown University Law Centre and boasts 10 years’ experience in private practice and a further 18 years in-house. Missori joined the telecommunications company H3G Italia in June 2005 and worked as legal affairs director until 2009, when he was promoted to the general counsel role. Missori’s position includes a variety of duties including legal matters, regulatory affairs and security and could be described as conducting mandatory obligations versus public authorities. ’The latter may include things like interceptions of telephone calls or providing data to authorities in case of investigations’, Missori clarifies. In charge of a department of 75 legal and non-legal employees, Missori has been active in implementing changes to the structure of the legal department at H3G. When he joined the company the legal team looked very different to its current form, Missori says ‘there used to be many senior lawyers and very few juniors, so there weren’t many opportunities for people to progress’. Missori decided to restructure the department by creating new possibilities and in doing so created new jobs, which strengthened the internal capacity by hiring a number of junior lawyers. ‘Considering how in Italy the legislation surrounding the telecoms sector is very specific, the idea was to create a strong team of in-house lawyers that can advise the company without resorting to external counsel. Strengthening ability and skills internally was a priority, and our success is measured by the fact that today we resource externally only for litigations, which we cannot defend the company in court due to the Italian system’, asserts Missori. These structural improvements, along with Missori’s efforts to build a strong legal department by attracting high calibre lawyers from outside the company and other departments have earned Missori a reputation of excellence.