Simona Lavagnini

Simona Lavagnini is a founding partner of LGV Avvocati, where she has practised since 2003. Her work centres on patent, trade mark and copyright law, competition law, data protection and the law of new technologies and artificial intelligence, advising clients in contentious and non-contentious matters. Admitted to practise before the Italian Supreme Court (Avvocato Cassazionista), she has more than thirty years of experience, having trained and practised as an associate at a leading Milan IP firm from 1994 to 2003 before founding LGV Avvocati. She holds a PhD in industrial law from the University of Pavia (thesis on databases between copyright and unfair competition) and completed research at the Max Planck Institute in Munich. She is a qualified mediator, having completed the CAM (Camera Arbitrale di Milano) Mediator Training Course in 2021. She was a lecturer in copyright and advertising law at the University of Pavia from 2011 to 2021, and currently teaches on the Master's Programme in Fashion Law and Digital Law at the Università Cattolica of Milan (since 2022), as well as on the Master's Programme in Copyright Law and Technology of the Creative Industries at LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome (since 2026). She has taught at institutions including IULM Milan, Università Ca' Foscari Venice, Bocconi University and Just Legal Services, where she coordinated a master's programme in new technologies law. She is the author of publications on copyright, competition and technology law, and has contributed to the journal AIDA (Annali Italiani del Diritto d'Autore) since 1995 and to Agenda Digitale since 2022. Lavagnini holds leadership positions in the IP field. Since 2023 she has served as President of the Italian Group of AIPPI, having been re-elected in 2026; she previously served as Secretary and member of its executive committee. She has been auditor since 2008. She was President of the Intellectual Property Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in Milan (2006-2009), a member of the special committee on copyright and new technologies of the Standing Advisory Committee on Copyright (2007-2008, appointed by presidential decree), and a member of the working group established under the Italian High Commissioner for the Fight against Counterfeiting (2009). She is ranked in Band 1 for copyright in Italy by Chambers and Partners, and is listed as a leading partner of LGV Avvocati in Band 1 (Intellectual Property - Copyright) by Legal500; Leaders League ranks her as Leading in Copyright. She has featured in Managing Intellectual Property's "Top 250 Women in IP" since 2023. She has won the Legal Community IP & TMT Awards "Lawyer of the Year: Copyright" in 2026, 2022 and 2021, "Lawyer of the Year: Esports" in 2025, "Best Practice: Copyright" in 2020, and "Professional of the Year: Copyright" in 2019, as well as the Top Legal Award "Professional of the Year: Trademark and Copyright" in 2019 and "Lawyer of the Year: Information Technology" in 2015.