Felix Hofer, Avv. Dr.
Senior Partner
Hofer-Loesch- Torricelli 2/rosso via Giambologna
Firenze, NONE 50132
Italy
Email: fhofer@hltlaw.it URL: www.hltllaw.it Type of Business: Legal Expertise: Counselling and litigation, IP, IT, Advertising Marketing Area: International Education/Degrees: Cum laude degree in jurisprudence University of Firenze Affiliations: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Recht und Informatik - DGRI (= German Association for Law and IT),Global Advertising Lawyers' Alliance - GALA (gala-marketlaw.com), Italian Section of Association Internationale pour la Protection de la Propriété Intellectuelle - AIPPI (www.aippi.it), Itechlaw (www.itechlaw.org) Awards: Honored as "Lawyer of the Year" and to be reported as such in Madison's Who is Who 2009 Directory. Hobbies/Personal Interests: Felix enjoys music and swimming. Family: Married with two children Biography: Born in 1948 in Merano (Italy), Felix achieved a cum laude degree from the Faculty of Jurisprudence - University of Florence in 1971, then trained as a lawyer and was registered to the Florence Bar in 1974. He's admitted to appear and defend before all Italian Superior Jurisdictions since 1988. Naming partner of the law firm Hofer-Lösch-Torricelli, which provides legal services to domestic and foreign clients whose businesses require legal assistance either under the "Community Law" (i.e. the Directives & Regulations issued by the European Union) or Italian regulations (national as well as local). He performed for almost 20 years - and is still acting - as general counsel for a number of local municipalities and has therefore achieved significant experience in the area of regulated businesses from both sides, the inside one (under the public administration's perspective as to reviewing and approval procedures as well as to handling administrative proceedings) and the outside one (from the position of the applicant seeking official approval or initiating administrative procedures with a local authority). Felix's international work is primarily focused on IP and IT and therefore frequently involves counselling and litigation in the areas of: e-commerce, data protection and privacy issues, contracts dealing with IP rights, advertising, marketing, sales promotion campaigns and commercial communication performed on TV, radio, press and the Internet; he also extensively practiced civil and administrative law. He's author of several books and articles as well as a frequent speaker at conferences and seminars (in Europe and in the US), where he has delivered presentations or performed as a speaker at events of the: Itechlaw, Association of National Advertisers, European Academy of Law, Promotion Marketing Association, JupiterEvents, American Conference Institute, Electronic Retailing Association, AIPPI. He is fluent in English, German and Italian
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