Industry focus: TMT

Bird & Bird

Client Satisfaction

Bird & Bird’s team works closely with the firm’s antitrust, commercial and corporate law experts to advise clients on the full spectrum of TMT activities, ranging from regulatory and commercial advice to data protection and dispute resolution. Massimiliano Mostardini represents clients in non-contentious regulatory matters related to IT, maintenance, outsourcing, disruptive technologies and pre-clearance advertising. TMT law and regulations expert Federico Marini-Balestra and corporate and commercial transactions specialist Stefano Silvestri are also recommended. Giovanni Galimberti and Simone Cadeddu are other names to note.

Legal 500 Editorial commentary

Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

'The team is very organised, fast, prepared, and available at any time to solve problems that are often urgent. We particularly appreciated the precision and thoroughness in carrying out the work requested, and the clarity of the answers given.'
'We have a very good relationship with Bird&Bird's professionals, which is based on trust and esteem. We never had issues with them, always managed to make our needs understood, including in relation to the response times which have often required the team to provide us with support in a very short time.'
'People make the difference, and I particularly appreciated the helpfulness and attention of the B&B staff. '
'I particularly appreciated the helpfulness and respect for deadlines from Jacopo Nardelli'.

Key clients

Aircall
Banca Mediolanum
Blooming Experience
BSO
Capgemini
Champion Products Europe
Cisco
CM.com
Dailymotion
DAZN
Doctolib
DuckDuck
Equinix
Globastar
GTT
Ledworks
NEC Italia
NTT
Pirelli and Pirelli Foundation
Ring Central
Satispay
Sisvel
Telecom Italia
Twilio
Zendesk

Work highlights

Assisted Capgemini in the negotiation of a complex international agreement with Stellantis for the provision of software development services related to AI for driver assistance systems (ADAS).
Assisted Telecom Italia in the appeal against a €116m fine imposed by the AGCM regarding an alleged exclusionary strategy committed by Telecom in the market for ultra-wideband access services.
Assisted Satispay, an Italian fintech scale-up which recently reached Unicorn status, in the acquisition of Onyon, an Italian start-up.