Paolo Cuomo

Prof. Avv. Paolo Cuomo is specialized in intellectual property and competition law , as well as in corporate and banking law . He provides consultancy and assistance, in and out of court, mainly in the field of copyright law, antitrust law, corporate and commercial law in general.

He is an associate professor of commercial law at the University of Udine, where he teaches courses on intellectual property law and competition law, as well as on corporate law of innovative enterprises, both in Italian and English. He taught commercial law for several years at the University of Salento, and taught courses on intellectual property and big data at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan.

He has carried out research both in Italy and abroad, in particular at the Max Planck Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht in Hamburg, as well as at the Max Planck Institut für Innovation und Wettbewerb in Munich.

He obtained the scientific qualification for the role of full professor in commercial law in the 2018-2020 session, with a unanimous decision of the commission.

He obtained a PhD in domestic and international commercial law from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano in 2010.

He graduated in Law in 2004 at the University of Lecce with 110/110 cum laude and an invitation to continue his studies, discussing a thesis in commercial law.

He has been admitted to the bar since 2008.

He is the author of two monographs : one on corporate and insolvency law ( Corporate credit control , Giuffrè, 2013), the other on patent and antitrust law ( Co-ownership of patents between cooperation and competition , Giappichelli, 2020).

He has also published numerous articles and case notes in the various areas of commercial law in the most important national scientific journals. Among others, are: Mutual management and equal treatment in cooperatives in Riv. soc. 2013; Liberalization of the copyright intermediation market and representativeness of collective management bodies , in NLCC 2019; The board of directors and the management of the company in the corporate governance code , in Riv. soc. 2021; The “Tercas case”: or bank bailouts, deposit guarantee systems and the dangers of conceptualism in the application of competition law , in Banca borsa tit. cred. 2022; Collective licenses with extended effect in the new art. 180-ter lda , in NLCC 2023.

He regularly holds seminars and lectures in master's and post-graduate courses . Among others, are the lectures on groups of companies and debt covenants held annually in the Master in Corporate governance organized by the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan, as well as the lectures on copyright intended for PhD students of the Università di Udine.

He collaborates with several scientific journals as a referee ( Banca, Borsa e Titoli di Credito ) and as a member of the editorial board ( Le Nuove Leggi Civili Commentate ).

He is a member of the scientific association Orizzonti del Diritto Commerciale, as well as of the scientific association Gian Franco Campobasso.

He knows English and German.