Trade Secrets

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In today’s global economy, trade secrets are increasingly valuable and increasingly vulnerable.

They play a strategic role in multiple industries, from life sciences to tech, and this requires an increasing awareness of the risks and policies required to ensure protection.

Our commercial team are experts in drafting trade secrets policies and the necessary clauses for employment contracts, licence agreements and other technology transfer transactions.

Our litigation team has extensive experience in handling high profile cases concerning misappropriation of trade secrets and know-how, acting before both civil and criminal courts and in multijurisdictional cases.

Recent notable cases:

  • Representing the world leader in the market for bone cements in a major multijurisdictional trade secret litigation
  • Representing the world leader in the manufacturing of certain pharmaceutical excipients in a complex multijurisdictional trade secret litigation
  • Assisting the world-leading producer of equipment for the metallurgical industry in know-how proceedings in Italy against its main global competitor
  • Representing one of the leading Italian banks in proceedings regarding the alleged misappropriation of competitor’s trade secrets through allegedly unfair hires of employees
  • Assisting a company operating in the manufacture and sale of medical device instruments in the negotiation of confidentiality agreements within commercial cooperation agreements
  • Assisting a world leader manufacturer of security solutions in the negotiations of a confidentiality clauses in the framework of R&D partnerships
  • Advising the multinational leader in the manufacture and sale of lingerie and hosiery in the negotiation of confidentiality agreements within commercial co-operation agreements

Practice Areas

Very good legal knowledge, commercial approach

Managing IP, 2025