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Massimo Maioletti

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Head of the Data Protection practice

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Languages: Italian, English

Massimo is the Head of the Data Protection practice in Italy.

Massimo has a longstanding experience in assisting national and multinational companies in the definition and implementation of domestic and multijurisdictional data protection compliance programs.

He provides advice and assistance to his clients on privacy issues related both to their daily business activities and to specific projects, dealing constantly and personally with his clients’ directors, managers, legal departments and Data Protection Officers.

A large part of his activities, is providing assistance and advice on the setting up and management of corporate policies and procedures, drafting of agreements for the regulation of relations between data controllers and their processors and performing third parties' compliance programmes. Massimo also advises clients on the privacy rules to be complied with in setting up their marketing activities and their institutional websites. He also supports clients in managing privacy issues relating to personal data transfer to Third Countries.

Massimo is also part of the Technology practice group and he advises on data protection issues related to the use of cookies and other tracking tools, implementation of IT data management tools and new technologies in the workplace, including related labour law issues, drafting acceptable use policies and implementation of IoT, AI and video surveillance systems. 

Massimo also coordinates and conducts privacy audits and, in the context of corporate transactions, privacy due diligence activities on target companies.

He also assists clients in responding to requests for the exercise of data subjects' rights and in the management of personal data breaches and security incidents, as well as in privacy impact assessment activities.

He also assists his clients in data protection contentious matters.

Massimo has also experience in business consulting and provides assistance in the negotiation and drafting of contracts and commercial agreements, as well as on legal issues arising in day-to-day contact with clients, suppliers, partners and counterparties.

 

Outside of advising clients, Massimo has published articles and commentaries on data protection issues in several national journals. He also taught the module "Riservatezza e diritto alla privacy" of the Master "Diritto e Impresa" of "Il Sole 24 Ore" and has been a lecturer at the Master "Data Protection Officer and Privacy Expert" of the University of Roma Tre.

Within the Eversheds Sutherland international network, Massimo leads and coordinates the Italian Data Protection Team and deals on a daily basis with transnational issues relating to the application of data protection legislation.

Massimo is a lawyer qualified to practice before the Italian Supreme Court, with a particular focus on commercial and privacy litigation and alternative dispute resolution procedures. 

Massimo also provides service as a Data Protection Officer and /or support to his client's DPO, as well data protection training sessions for his client's directors and employees. 

Massimo Maioletti

Partner

Head of the Data Protection practice

Massimo Maioletti

Partner

Head of the Data Protection practice

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