Valentina Apruzzi

BAR ADMISSIONS

Admitted as avvocato to the Bar of Bologna and as a member of the Law Society of England and Wales (non-practising solicitor).

LANGUAGES

Italian, English, French

Profile

Valentina Apruzzi is a lawyer with a strong experience in the field of new technologies and commercial law. She advises in  business law dealing with e-commerce and online contracts, information technology, internet law, data protection and intellectual property, international contracts and cross-borders related topics. 

She developed a specific expertise in online contracts by providing legal advice for web shops and assisting software house in the protection of software copyright and anti-piracy strategies, protection of domain names, registration and protection of trademarks. Mrs Apruzzi deals with drafting and negotiating software development contracts, source code escrow. 

In data protection area, she advises companies on the compliance of data processing with the requirements of domestic and European legislation (GDPR) and support them in trials before the Supervisory Authorities. Valentina Apruzzi is DPO of some multinational industrial companies. 

In the field of international commercial law, she deals with drafting and negotiating commercial contracts in several industrial sectors. Before incorporating Princivalle Apruzzi, Danielli law firm she worked as an in-house counsel for multinational companies and leading companies in the automotive and banking sectors and has gained sound professional experience working for several international law firms. 

Graduated in Law at the University of Bologna then she passed a master’s degree in Informatics and New Technology Law and she trained also as cybersecurity manager and specialist. She has been admitted in the Women4Cyber roll managed by the European Commission’s Cybersecurity Atlas. 

From 2016 to 2018 she taught at Brunel University London the Internet Law I and II modules within the LLM International Business Law. 

Author of several legal publications, she has been a member of the board of Altroconsumo for several years. 

Valentina Apruzzi is admitted in the Bologna Lawyer’s roll and Solicitor Regulation Authority for England and Wales (no practice) 

She is a member of the Associazione Nazionale per la Protezione dei Dati (Italian Association for the Protection of Personal Data) and the Circolo dei Giuristi Telematici and Maestro della Protezione dei Dati & Data Protection Designer. 

Tenacity, readiness and great passion for the work characterize her professional profile; curiosity, love for art, nature and travel complete her personality. 

Sede

Bologna