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Alberto Bellan

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Alberto Bellan
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  • Overview
  • Experience
  • Credentials
  • Insights and events
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Alberto Bellan is a passionate litigator and also an academic. He is very curious and always up to date with the most recent developments of law in the IT world.

Legal500 EMEA 2020

Alberto is the to-go person for regulatory and policy in the Internet, Tech-IP, and Media Law. 

Partner of the Italian Technology, Media and Communications and Commercial Group, he assists the most important tech companies before EU and Italian Authorities and Courts on platform compliance, copyright, DSA, ISP liability, AVMS, AI, and freedom of expression.

Thanks to his previous experience as in-house, Alberto is commercially oriented and sees the bigger picture for his clients. 

After graduating from the University of Trieste, Italy, Alberto earned an LLM at Queen Mary, University of London and a Ph.D. at the University of Milan.

 

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Alberto Bellan is a passionate litigator and also an academic. He is very curious and always up to date with the most recent developments of law in the IT world.

Legal500 EMEA 2020

Representative experience

Supporting online platforms in several cases before the Court of Justice of the EU. 

Assistance to online platforms in some of the most relevant Italian tech litigation cases before civil and regulatory Courts, Italian Communication Authority, and Italian Competition Authority.

Supporting policy teams of online platforms on advocacy regarding EU and Italian reforms, including AVMSD, EUCD, Terrorist Content Online, Platform to Business Regulation.

 

Assistance to online platforms in their relations with Authorities such as EU Commission, Italian Data Protection Authority, Italian Communication Authority, and Italian Competition Authority.

Credentials

Education
  • PhD in Law, University of Milan, 2017
  • LL.M., Queen Mary University of London, 2014
  • Laurea Magistrale in giurisprudenza (Master's Degree in Law), University of Trieste, 2007
Bar admissions and qualifications
  • Italy