Simona Lavagnini
Simona Lavagnini
- Founding Partner
Simona Lavagnini is founding partner of LGV Avvocati and one of Italy’s leading practitioners in copyright law. With over thirty years of experience in intellectual property, she advises Italian and international clients on contentious and non-contentious matters spanning copyright, trademarks, patents, unfair competition, data protection and the law of new technologies and artificial intelligence. She is admitted as UPC representative. As qualified avvocato cassazionista and mediator at the PMAC, she combines full-time practice with an active academic career. She holds a PhD in industrial law and taught copyright and advertising law at the University of Pavia from 2011 to 2021; she currently lectures in postgraduate master’s programmes. Since 2023 she has served as President of the Italian Group of AIPPI (Association Internationale pour la Protection de la Propriété Intellectuelle). In 2023 she was also appointed to the Antitrust and Intellectual Property Committee of the Milan Bar. She is a regular conference speaker and contributes to law reviews and books.
She was named Italy Practitioner of the Year (Law Firms) at the Managing IP awards in 2024 and 2025, Intellectual Property Lawyer of the Year at The Legal 500 Italy Awards 2026, and Best Copyright Lawyer 2026 by Legalcommunity. For many years she has been consistently ranked in Chambers Europe and Chambers Global (Italy, Intellectual Property: Copyright, Band 1) and in The Legal 500 as a leading partner in intellectual property in Italy.
Expertise
- Training course for mediators in civil and commercial disputes, Milan Chamber of Arbitration, Milan (2021)
- Master in Corporate Law, Just Legal Services, Milan (2016)
- PhD in Industrial Law, University of Pavia (1999) – thesis: “Databases between copyright and unfair competition”
- Scholarship, Max Planck Institute, Munich (Germany), March–May 1998 – “Multimedia und Urheberrecht”
- Law degree, summa cum laude, University of Pavia (1993) – thesis: “The legal nature of SIAE”
- Erasmus scholarship, University of Bristol (UK), 1992
- Admitted to the Italian Supreme Court Bar (avvocato cassazionista)
- Mediator, PMAC
- Avvocato specialista in diritto civile
- Italian (native),
- English (excellent – reading, writing, spoken),
- German (basic – reading, writing, spoken).
- President, AIPPI Italian Group (elected 2023, re-elected for a second term in 2026); previously Secretary and Executive Committee member
- Auditor, AIPPI Italian Group (since 2008)
- Member of AIPPI, ALAI, INTA
- Ranked in Chambers Europe and Chambers Global (Band 1 – Copyright), Legal 500 (Band 1 – Intellectual Property, Copyright), Leaders League and IP Stars (Top 250 Women in IP, since 2023)
- Lawyer of the Year – Copyright, IP & TMT Awards (2026, 2022, 2021, 2019); Lawyer of the Year – Esports, IP & TMT Awards (2025); Best Practice – Copyright, IP & TMT Awards Web Edition (2020).
- Commentario alla normativa in materia di intelligenza artificiale, Giappichelli, 2026 (arts. 50–53), edited by E. Cazzato and I. De Feo
- I nuovi poteri di AGCOM nell’online e nel diritto d’autore, Giappichelli, 2025
- Il diritto d’autore nel mercato unico digitale. Direttiva (UE) 2019/790 e d.lgs. n. 177/2021 di recepimento, Giappichelli, Turin, 2022
- “The Italian implementation of Article 17 of Directive 2019/790: complaints, appeals and the new powers of AGCOM”, Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, vol. 17, issue 5, May 2022, 443–449
- Regular contributor to Agenda Digitale (2022–present), on copyright, artificial intelligence and new technologies
- Regular contributor to AIDA – Annali Italiani del Diritto d’Autore since 1995 (articles, notes, case commentary)
- Contributions on unfair competition, cloud computing, internet service provider liability and design protection in Commentario breve alle leggi su proprietà intellettuale e concorrenza (Marchetti–Ubertazzi), various editions, Cedam