Mattia Dalla Costa

Practice Areas

Intellectual Property

Commercial

TMT

Automotive

Fashion

Career

Mattia Dalla Costa has been a partner of CBA since 2009 and previously worked in prestigious law firms.

Mattia's practice focuses on contractual advice and international litigation in the areas of intellectual property (licensing, technology transfer, R&D and JD agreements, know-how and trade secrets, patents, trademarks, designs, copyright), information technology (software, databases, AI, IoT, blockchain), unfair competition, corporate, M&A and international trade for technology companies operating in Italy and in foreign markets, in particular in the fashion, automotive, aerospace and defence sectors.

Professional Memberships

Member of the Padua Bar Association, 1997;

Member of the Munich Bar Association (Rechtsanwalt), 2001;

Member of the Special Register for Supreme Court Advocacy, 2017;

Vice President and Board Member of LES International, Vice President of LES Italy;

Representative for AHK - German Chamber of Commerce in Italy for Western Veneto (Padua, Vicenza, and Verona);

Member of EPLAW (European Patent Lawyers Association); Member of GRUR (German Association for Industrial Property and Copyright); Member of VPP (German Association of Intellectual Property Experts); Member of Alumni of Max-Planck-Institut für Innovation und Wettbewerb; Member of Heidelberg Alumni International; Member of MAV and DAV (Munich and German Bar Associations) and of the In-house Counsels Committee -Syndikusanwälte; Member of Legalmondo; Honorary Member of AIJA (International Association of Young Lawyers); Member of the list of arbitrators at the Chamber of Arbitration of Padua and the German-Italian Chamber of Commerce of Munich - REAM; Member of the list of arbitrators at WIPO; Member of the Scientific Committee of Italian Sounding e. V.; Member of Rotary Munich International; Trusted lawyer at AHK - German Chamber of Commerce, WKO - Wirtschaftskammer Österreich, Swiss, Austrian and Italian Consulates.

Publications

Author of numerous articles on industrial property, know-how protection and trade secrets, IT, copyright and international trade.

Personal

Law Degree, University of Heidelberg, University of Ferrara, University of Liège,1993;

Postgraduate Courses: Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich, 1993; D.E.S. in European Law, University of Liège, 1995; World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Geneva, 2009.

Speaker and organiser of international conferences and seminars as well as specialisation courses for universities, economic institutions, industrial associations, chambers of commerce, internationalisation agencies, both Italian (Confindustria, LES Italia) and foreign (LES International, AIJA, Italian-Swiss Tax and Legal Forum, AHK - German Chamber of Commerce and IHK, WKO - Wirtschaftskammer Österreich and Italian Commercial Sections).

Acknowledged expert and speaker on a regular basis at international IP – IT conferences. Several interviews published in newspapers: Sole24Ore, Repubblica, Corriere della Sera, Italia Oggi, Giornale di Vicenza, Mattino di Padova, Süddeutsche Zeitung.

He is recognised by the international legal guides Chambers and Partners (in both European and global rankings), Legal 500, Best Lawyers and Who's Who Legal, which identify him as a recommended lawyer in IP. He has also won two prestigious national awards at the Legalcommunity IP Awards as Lawyer of the Year for Copyright Law 2024 and Lawyer of the Year for Civil Litigation 2023.

Languages Spoken

Italian, English, German, Spanish, French.