Maria’s practice focuses on commercial litigation, enforcement proceedings, data protection and artificial intelligence, and international data governance.
Maria represents Italian and multinational clients in litigation and regulatory matters involving complex data, privacy, and cross-border issues. She regularly assists clients with GDPR compliance, international data transfers, data processing arrangements, cross-border discovery, and data access requests, including in matters involving U.S. proceedings and international corporate groups. Additionally, she advises on artificial intelligence, data governance, and emerging EU digital regulation, including the EU AI Act, the Data Act, the Digital Services Act, and Italian legislation on artificial intelligence. She has experience assessing legal and regulatory risks connected with AI-enabled products, training datasets, IoT products, data flows, and the documentation required to support the commercialization of technology products in the EU market.
Maria counsels on the impact of EU sanctions regimes on corporate structures, contractual arrangements, commercial transactions, and the governance of international groups.
Maria earned a Ph.D. in Business and Law from the Università degli Studi di Bergamo in 2021, with research focused on data governance in artificial intelligence products. She also served as a research fellow at the Università degli Studi di Milano, chair legal informatics, with research focused on law and technlogy.