A new and important growth for DLA Piper, this time in the Intellectual Property sector. On 1 June 2011 Dragotti Studio Legale Associato will join DLA Piper.
As a result of this development, DLA Piper’s IPT department in the Italian Office, will become strengthened especially in IP litigation with a particular emphasis on pharmaceutical patent litigation, and will consolidate the leading position that it has gained in the sector over the past few years. The team will now consist of 14 professionals including 4 partners, 9 associates and 1 trainee.
Gualtiero Dragotti (42 years old), founder and named partner of Dragotti Studio Legale, is a lawyer with robust experience in the intellectual property sector, with a particular focus on cross-border litigation, especially in the chemical-pharmaceutical and new technologies fields.
Gualtiero is ranked as an expert in IP matters by the most prestigious international directories (Chambers and Legal 500 amongst others). He graduated in Law from the University of Milan in 1992, is a regular contributor to many of the major scientific magazines of the sector, and in 2001 was appointed a Professor of Intellectual Property Law at the University of Milan, Faculty of Chemistry. He is a Member of the Executive Committee of AIPPI – Gruppo Italiano and is active in AIPPI Internazionale, having been Vice President of the Anti-Counterfeiting Study Centre since 2006. Together with Gualtiero, Elisabetta Bandera (35 years old) will also be joining DLA Piper. Elisabetta is also a graduate of Law from the University of Milan and has practiced IP litigation with Dragotti Studio Legale Associato since 2000.
“Before I was offered the opportunity to join DLA Piper, I was considering what investments to make for the continued growth of our Firm” said Gualtiero Dragotti. “I see this project a great opportunity – for myself and for my colleagues who will join DLA Piper with me – because of the international orientation and excellent organization of DLA Piper, the strong personal compatibility between the teams and the fact that the two groups are perfectly complementary to each other. We are enthusiastic about contributing to the continued success of this project “.
Roberto Valenti, partner in DLA Piper’s IPT department, said: “Gualtiero is the ideal person for developing a practice like IP, which over the past three years has achieved a remarkable level of growth and success, and has received many national and international acknowledgments. I am confident that the arrival of Gualtiero and Elisabetta will enable DLA Piper, already ranked number one in the TMT and Media sectors, to also be the IP market leader in Italy. Our continued growth and success is testament to the importance that DLA Piper places in the new technologies”.
