Carmelo Fontana
Senior Regional Counsel at Google / Lecturer at SDA Bocconi School of Management
Biography
SDA Bocconi School of Management
I am a tech-law attorney qualified in California and in Italy. My professional practice focuses on IP law, privacy law, content licensing, social media, advertising and commercial deals. I have significant business experience in new ventures financing, consumer Internet, on-line marketing and advertising. I graduated summa cum laude from LUISS Law School. After practicing several years with Cleary Gottlieb (Rome Office), I joined the European Commission Legal Service. Next, as a Fulbright Scholar, I graduated from Stanford Law School with an LL.M. in Law Science and Technology. Thereafter, I co-founded an Internet start-up company operating in US and Asia. Then, on a Rotary Ambassador Scholarship, I worked as a Research Associate with the Stanford Transatlantic Technology Law Forum ("TTLF"). I was confirmed as a Research Fellow with the TTLF. In January 2011, I joined Google where as Senior Regional Counsel I currently handle the Italian commercial and regulatory practice.
Specialties:
- Multi-jurisdictional regulatory product compliance;
- Privacy law and data protection;
- Copyright and trademarks;
- Tech transactions and content licensing;
- Intermediary liability, e-commerce Directive and DMCA.
- E-commerce, online contracts and consumer protection;
- Audiovisual content regulation;
- Online marketing and advertising;
- Social media, defamation and free speech.
Companies
- Lecturer and Executive Committee member for the program: "Legal and Tax Aspects of Digital Economy" SDA Bocconi (2014)
- Senior Regional Counsel Google (2011)
- Research Fellow for the Transatlantic Technology Law Forum Stanford Law School (2010 — 2011)
- Co-Founder Ukindi, Inc. (previously Nextong, Inc.) (2008 — 2011)
- Legal and Business Consulting for Internet Companies Carmelo Fontana (2008 — 2011)
- Research Associate for the Transatlantic Technology Law Forum Stanford Law School (2008 — 2009)
- Attorney the European Commission - Legal Service, Brussels (2007 — 2007)
- Attorney Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, Rome (2004 — 2007)
- Trainee Professor Massimo Confortini Law Office (2003 — 2004)
Education
- LL.M. Stanford Law School (2007 — 2008)
- Laurea LUISS Guido Carli University (1998 — 2003)
- Erasmus Copenhagen Business School (1999 — 2000)
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