Intellectual property, electronic communications, media & technology

Ganado Advocates is attuned to the legal and operational needs of these highly specialised and fast-moving industries. Its team of experts in the field is result driven and aims to provide its clients with practical legal solutions.

Clients serviced by the firm range from blue chip information technology, automotive and pharmaceutical companies, as well as universal and European sports associations requiring specialist information technology, telecommunications, electronic commerce or IP related legal assistance, to private equity investors and lenders requiring transactional assistance in relation to an IT, telecoms or e-gaming target or borrower, as well as software, e-entertainment, social media or pharmaceutical providers entering into collaboration projects with third parties or needing to register or protect their IP rights.

The firm is proud to have been at the centre of the development of the Maltese telecommunications market from its inception, assisting and advising the Maltese regulator on various fronts, and representing it in court and litigation proceedings.

Included within this practice is our firm’s data protection practice which advises the firm’s diverse client base on their ongoing data protection related obligations and assisting in the management of a data breach incident.

Our team is made up of lawyers with extensive experience in electronic commerce, data protection, data retention and telecommunications regulation and works closely with lawyers from other complementary practices, such as corporate, capital markets and taxation to provide a comprehensive service to clients in these industries.