Valentina Giarrusso

Valentina Giarrusso is Of Counsel in the London and Milano offices.

Valentina graduated in Law from the University of Siena, subsequently gaining a scholarship as a visiting student with the University of London.

In 1999 she took an LLM in International Commercial Law with the University of Nottingham. She has a Master's in Data Protection and Regulation from the London School of Economics. Valentina is admitted to practice in England & Wales as a Registered Foreign Lawyer (RFL). Valentina was admitted to the Bar of Rome and she is a qualified mediator and arbitrator. After that she received an offer from Macchi di Cellere Gangemi where she spent three years working in the Corporate and Finance department. Then she moved to Milan to join the Corporate Finance department of Baker Mc Kenzie.

Valentina is a qualified corporate lawyer specialised in Corporate, Commercial Law, Intellectual Property and Data Protection Regulation. In the course of her career she advised more than 200 international companies in their process of establishment in Italy or in their commercial expansion by way of negotiating main terms for joint ventures; mergers and acquisitions; plus a wide range of all main typical and atypical commercial agreements. She had also assisted in numerous IP matters and dealt with Data Protection compliance, serving as DPO for several company clients.

In 2010 she had joined Giambrone as Head of Corporate department. She is currently Head of IP and Data Protection Law, coordinating lawyers and professional all over 6 jurisdictions. She is based between Milan and London. She is Member of the Congress of Fellows of the Centre for International Legal Studies in Salzburg where she served as Speaker and Moderator in several conferences about Corporate Governance, and, more recently well and Law of Digital Innovation and Digital Collision.

Languages: Italian and English