Raffaele Giarda chairs Baker McKenzie's Global Technology Media & Telecoms Industry Group and co-heads the Commercial-Corporate/M&A practice in the Firm's Italy offices. He has contributed articles to law journals, and often speaks at and moderates Italian and international conferences and seminars on IT/C legal and regulatory issues.

Representative Legal Matters

• Advised Over-The-Top and new entrants on authorizations and other regulatory issues in new technology, public electronic communication networks, mobile services, rights of use of frequencies and numbering resources, internet access, IoT, satellite network and communications services, MVNO, VAS, data transmission, CUG, Wi-Fi, WLAN, NGN, voice telephony and similar services.

• Assisted a media company in its sale to an Italian broadcasting company.

• Assisted and represented a bidder in all public tenders (in the form of spectrum auctions or beauty contests) launched by the Italian government in the wireless sector, and in the granting of frequencies usage rights since the 1998 market liberalization in Italy.

• Advised a leading multinational content provider in relation to broadcasting and production quotas in the production and distribution of audiovisual content.

• Assisted a Dow 30 company in connection with all corporate aspects, shareholder agreement negotiations, regulatory issues and commercial matters related to the investment in, and then divestment of, a major Italian telecoms operator.

• Assisted a leading multinational content provider in connection with its acquisition of an EU-based multinational content provider.

• Assisted operators in the negotiation of MVNO and interconnection agreements concerning direct, reverse, fixed-mobile, mobile-mobile, carrier pre-selection arrangements and local loop unbundling, as well as IRU agreements, roaming hub, M2M services and mobile backhaul.

• Advised car manufacturers in connection with the launch of their connected car projects.